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Musician: Reem Kelani
Location: London
Instruments: voice
Music: Palestinian
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 ÌýÌýListen (04'42) to Dal’ouna On The Return performed by Reem Kelani with Gilad Atzmon & The Orient house Ensemble from 'Exile', Enja, TIP-888 844 2
Reem was one of the artists featured in the World on your Street tent at WOMAD 2004
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A favourite song:
Dal’ouna On The Return Performed by Gilad Atzmon & The Orient house Ensemble featuring Reem Kelani from Exile (Enja TIP-888 844 2)
I met Gilad when we were doing the music for a documentary about what happened in Jenin camp last year and he said, ‘ Would you sing on my CD, I love your stuff……’ Later he asked me to tour with them . I decided to compromise a little bit, even though I come from a well known Sufi family, and I started singing in jazz clubs…I’m a very naughty girl!
Currently we’re playing together quite regularly.This track opens the album. Dal’ouna is a form of Palestinian singing, it’s a folk dance and you fill it with whatever theme you want. You can have a Dal’ouna love song or a Dal’ouna lament song or a Dal’ouna farewell song etc..
But because I chose verses about The Return, I suggested Dal’ouna On The Return as the title. It’s traditional folkloric Palestinian music, but before the Dal’ouna begins, there’s a ‘dialogue’ between me and Gilad on clarinet in a free rhythm style which is based on some music I wrote.
The lyrics were given to me by the Palestinian ambassador to Algiers. They’re about the ecumenical nature of Palestine , saying that paradise is here on this land where Jesus, Moses and Muhammad come from, which is really where Gilad and I come from politically. You move straight from that meditational section, into a rhythmic, snappy, happy Palestinian Dal’ouna.
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