Lumin — Hadra
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This is a beautiful song.
Lumin Biography
by Neil Z. Yeung
Formed in the Bay Area by multi-instrumentalist Jef Stott (ex-Stellamara), acid jazz musician Michael Emenau, and Kazakhstan-born singer/songwriter Irina Mikhailova,
Lumin emerged in the late '90s with their tribal trip-hop fusion
project, which incorporated rhythms from Middle Eastern, medieval
European, classical, and electronic ambient music. They issued a trio of
albums in the span of a decade before pursuing their own solo
endeavors.
Originally founded by Stott and Emenau, Lumin released their debut album, Datura (City of Tribes Records), in 1998. For their brooding follow-up, 2002's Hadra (World Class Records), they recruited Mikhailova
for vocal duties and choral arrangements, incorporating Bulgarian
choir, Sufi trance, drum'n'bass, and downtempo elements alongside
Turkish and Arabic instruments such as the tambur, tablas, bendir,
darbuka, riqq, and zills. The trio issued Ketri, their livelier final LP, in 2007 on Japanese label Dakini Records.
Super
Very beautiful.
Liking this. Very atmospheric. Not hearing DCD at all.
jcook wrote:
9.25
How much longer can this song go on?
9.25
Loving this! Very eclectic. Some serious cultural borrowing going on with this tune. As always, thanks Bill and Rebecca for the intro to another band . Opening with a 7 from South Billyburg.
Extremely irritating! Gag - PLEASE NO MORE!!
I don't know....thinkin about belly dancers and Tarzan movies.Oh yeah,turkish hash...I mean pipes!
Tux wrote:
It started so good, but there was nothing that came from it.
It ends as it starts. I was about to give it a 8, but the fact that the song has no content, but just floats to void makes me drop to 5. Too turkish too.
And I don't see the comparison to Dead Can Dance, where almost every song has a nice framework and keeps you listening.
So funny; I just opened my window to make essentially this comment. I was intrigued at first....then I was just irritated. Sounds like filler music from a Bollywood soundtrack....
mperetz wrote:
Love this song - sounds a lot like some of the Dead Can Dance
like Dead Can Dance with dots, not feathers.
jcook wrote:
How much longer can this song go on?
It started so good, but there was nothing that came from it.
It ends as it starts. I was about to give it a 8, but the fact that the song has no content, but just floats to void makes me drop to 5. Too turkish too.
And I don't see the comparison to Dead Can Dance, where almost every song has a nice framework and keeps you listening.
Thanks for turning me onto this. I like it.
south asian music to celebrate India's independence day? :-)
Let's just all be glad the Brittany Spears doesn't cover this song.
Love this song - sounds a lot like some of the Dead Can Dance stuff I have. The people who don't like it probably don't have much open in their brains for world music - and no - England doesn't count as world music :-)
How much longer can this song go on?
A lot of people in this forum really dislike this song... wow...
Personally, I'm sitting and listening while I work at the office, and my ears perked up at this song. Middle Eastern chords have so much depth to them and this piece is so complex. The instruments and the vocals mix together into a very zen and peaceful trance-like tune.
I really liked it, especially how it fit in with the other songs in the playlist.
:meditate.gif:
I dig this, but not on a Monday morning. This is 3am stuff, with a really juicy girl.
Remember Ofra Haza, anyone? She was a bit like this.
yeah well here's to being political corret, and polite at the same time:
This song is very, very, veryvery, veryveryvery - very very very very very very loooonggggg... will it never stop? is this it? she has taken over RP for ever. we're stuck with her and her un-tuned saw...?
I'm sorry--once you've mastered the Arabic scale, there are just so many modulations thereof. A little of this music goes a long way! I agree--Dead Can Dance opened up some new avenues. 
britrock wrote:
Awful - make it stop.
Enchanting - play more!
britrock wrote:
Awful - make it stop.
What he said....
Daveinbawlmer wrote:
Dead Can Dance did this kinda stuff much better.
While I can take or leave this song, to suggest that Dead Can Dance had the instrumental chops or authenticity to come close to pulling this off is just silly.
Awful - make it stop.
I really dig this...the mid-eastern rhytmic et al...
Dead Can Dance did this kinda stuff much better.
This is definitely something me and my lady can cuddle up together with. Some of this style is boring but I really enjoyed this song.
i'm bored...
The music of the Mideast, between the rhythmic patterns and the harmonic and melodic structures, interests me enough that I'd like to study it in depth (I'm a professional musician/producer). I've borrowed from that well a little bit already - fairly frequent use of 7/4 in a non-traditional, yet rock context, and one long solo that shifted through several modes, but it would be good to see how it was used in the original traditions. So this song didn't bore me in the least.
Raven
OK. I enjoy world music in the mix :sunny.gif: But if (like me) you sometimes lose interest in arabic music before the end of the track, you might try the Songs from the Victorious City CD by Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman. Its a wonderful fusion of styles.
spieler wrote:
Reminds one of being at a turkish bazar. Maybe I heard it on the soundtrack of "Midnight express" :-)
Visit Turkey to see the real thing ;)
spieler wrote:
Reminds one of being at a turkish bazar.
Yes! Very fine carpet! Very fine! And for you, only three thousand!
Nice :meditate.gif:
A little long, yes, but quite enjoyable.
Somebody give her a Tylenol PM, stat!
This must be the drop out segment of the day, but it is much needed.
Interesting song to break in the usual mix here.
Reminds one of being at a turkish bazar. Maybe I heard it on the soundtrack of "Midnight express" :-)
beelzebubba wrote:
Picking up a "world-beat" does not automatically make one enlightened, interesting nor a good musician. This is pretty lame.
yah, way lame... not into it at all...
ohmygod & when does it end?
I like the sound, but this track is a bit too long, no?
Yeah!
Picking up a "world-beat" does not automatically make one enlightened, interesting nor a good musician. This is pretty lame.
I like the strings and the 'wailing' lots of times too in Arab music... A nice mixture: Philip Glass with Foday Musa Suso - Music from The Screens...
Some of it can be found on Dead Can Dance's albums as well...
Through a neighbour/pal, who has lived most of his life in Iran, I know a little of this sort of music and I must say I find it hard to get into it, after been grown up with Western scales etc. Even when it's a modern form of it like this song.
For him, "Western music", doesn't go much further than a little Ella and Louis and early Miles Davis. Could be worse!
Arrghh!!! I\'m holding my ears!! 
OUCH!
Really, I can take so much of this so-called world music. I
would rather hear something with at least a little melody and intelligible lyrics.
Lumin Biography
by Neil Z. Yeung
Formed in the Bay Area by multi-instrumentalist Jef Stott (ex-Stellamara), acid jazz musician Michael Emenau, and Kazakhstan-born singer/songwriter Irina Mikhailova,
Lumin emerged in the late '90s with their tribal trip-hop fusion
project, which incorporated rhythms from Middle Eastern, medieval
European, classical, and electronic ambient music. They issued a trio of
albums in the span of a decade before pursuing their own solo
endeavors.
Originally founded by Stott and Emenau, Lumin released their debut album, Datura (City of Tribes Records), in 1998. For their brooding follow-up, 2002's Hadra (World Class Records), they recruited Mikhailova
for vocal duties and choral arrangements, incorporating Bulgarian
choir, Sufi trance, drum'n'bass, and downtempo elements alongside
Turkish and Arabic instruments such as the tambur, tablas, bendir,
darbuka, riqq, and zills. The trio issued Ketri, their livelier final LP, in 2007 on Japanese label Dakini Records.
Thank You for the info!