{"product_id":"ma-waraa-al-shaabi-2xlp","title":"Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi [2xLP]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRizan Said - Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi [2xLP]\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMa Waraa Al-Shaabi — \"Beyond Shaabi\" — is the new album on Kou Records by Rizan Said, the legendary Kurdish-Syrian keyboard virtuoso from Ras Al Ain in the Jazeera region of northeastern Syria, and the primary musical architect behind Omar Souleyman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce upon a time, the Jazeera — a culturally rich borderland of Kurdish, Arab, Syriac, and Armenian communities — was alive with a distinctive sonic tradition: hand drums and reed flutes, weddings that lasted days, dabke that had been going on for centuries. Rizan was the boy wonder of that scene, a prodigy on percussion and reed instruments who became the region's master synthesist — programming Korgs to emulate zurna, saz, tanbura, and buzuq, collapsing traditional instrumentation into a single pair of hands moving at lightning speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is his third solo album, following King of Keyboard (Annihaya, 2015) and Saz U Dilan (Akuphone, 2019) — and his most far-reaching. Recorded at Sigur Rós's Sundlaugin Studio in Iceland and produced by Randall Dunn, with co-production by Mark Gergis (Syrian Cassette Archives), Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi pushes Syrian and Kurdish dabke into uncharted sonic territory: seven pieces that carry the heat and velocity of the cassette circuit into something wider, stranger, and more alive than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rizan Said","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":49169694359769,"sku":"850077743351","price":55.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/0468\/3425\/files\/KOU014RizanSaidMaWaraaAl-ShaabiAlbumArtLarge.jpg?v=1788123964","url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/en-ca\/products\/ma-waraa-al-shaabi-2xlp","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}