GALBI.

Hypnotic rhythms, minor-key eastern horns, angelic voice, WOW.

And hey - she appeared in "Pump up the volume" by MARRS.
[This message was edited Wed Nov 5 10:49:56 PST 2003 by otan]

she' s dead.

otan said:

Ofra Passed away some years ago shes well know for her song 'Im i'n alu meaning the gates of heaven are open. she was a wonderful talent and had a brilliant voice.

She died of AIDS...what a piece she was

I have one album by her. I should listen to it more.

I LOVE Bally Sagoo though, his cd "Rising From the East" is heaven.

http://www.ballysagoo.com/home.htm

I like the stuff she's done with Thomas Dolby.

Finess said:

She did? I had no idea.

minneapolisgenius said:

http://www.jewishjournal.....3.3.0.htm

VinaBlue said:

Damn, that was three years ago already.

VinaBlue said:

If you like that, I highly recommend that you check out his earlier material if you haven't already -- specifically, Bollywood Flashback and Magic Touch (an album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan songs that Bally produced).

The soundtrack to Yara, by Rabih Abou-Khalil is amazingly beautiful. I love the melancholy of Arabic music.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 6 1:31:25 PST 2003 by gooeythehamster]

'Middle Eastern House'...

i think he meant "Banghra" which is the equivalent of Dance Music

i loved some of her stuff, didn't she have a UK chart hit in the 80s as well. her voice was special and from what i remember she united people on both sides of the divide with her music.

VinaBlue said:

I have that CD as well, until some friends (pakistani) dissed me for being 'cheesy' apparently...go figure. So anyway, now I'm listening to qawwali dude Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan after i was showcased his stuff. Totally fantastic music, and I wish I could understand it all (the Sufiism poetry sung in Urdu). The album I have is Shahen-Shah which is very percussive, and the guy uses his amazing voice to the extreme...the album is very trance-like, not as in house/techno trance, but as in, the original, old school, instrumental, purposeful trance. You don't have to understand, just feel!

I know very little about this, but I' like almost everything I've heard.

Ofra was wonderful. Shame we lost her.

Lammastide said:

What do you mean 'we'? The woman was very much alone when she died, all by herself...nobody who cared!

abierman said:

Um... I'm not aware of the details of her death, but from the standpoint of collective lovers of music, "we" definitely suffered a loss at her demise.