Thread: Melaya Music

Anyone have suggestions? I would love to buy some new Melaya Style music.

Raks Ayoub has 2 Melaya tracks on his cd...

Anythingby Ahmed Adaweyya couldbe good.

The only real "Melaya Style" music comes from Mahmoud Reda, since he invented the concept. In that spirit, some songs are particularly associated with Alexandria (Eskendereya, Iskanderiya, etc.) and those are usually the dancers' choice. Other dancers have expanded the Melaya Leff to include performances to other sha'abi/beledi music, but you would want to stay away from anything that is either too beledi in a Saidi sense (i.e., the sort of music one would use for cane) or too sha'abi in an urban Cairene/inner city sense.

I have great Alexandrian in my Al Amoura cd and fun shaabi Ana Albi Andak in my Raqs El Helm cd. Both can be done with milaya.
Outi of Cairo

I use the one already mentioned on Raks Ayoub and
Sukkar Boulag which is the one Horatio and Beata use and is on one of their Oriental Fantasy CDs
Banat Alexandria from CD Rakset Claribel
Banat Baharei from CD Was ya Wash 2 which I've seen Yasmina of Cairo dance to.
Eh el Hekaya from CD Wahyatak habibi by Amera -translation on Outi of Cairo
Bs bs Amar from CD Hamada by Sayed B