Arco Iris (Amina Alaoui album)

Arco Iris
Studio album by Amina Alaoui
Released	June 20, 2011
Recorded	April 2010 Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Genre	Vocal music, Folk music, World music
Length	67:13
Label	ECM ECM 2180
Producer	Manfred Eicher

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Allmusic	[1]

Arco Iris is an album by singer Amina Alaoui. The album, Alaoui's first work for ECM, is focused on singing and features light string accompaniment along with sparse percussion. It was recorded in April 2010 in Lugano and released in 2011. The New York Times termed the recording as a fusion of different traditions to form her own Iberian Peninsula. It cited her incorporating musical traditions of Portuguese fado, Spanish flamenco, and Persian and Arab-Andalusian classical music.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Hado" - 1:50
2. "Búscate En Mí" - 6:31
3. "Fado Al-Mu'tamid" - 5:30
4. "Flor De Nieve" - 4:07
5. "Oh Andaluces" - 6:55
6. "Ya Laylo Layl" - 9:18
7. "Fado Menor" - 5:26
8. "Búscate En Mí, Var." - 5:32
9. "Moradía" - 3:59
10. "Las Morillas De Jaén" - 7:05
11. "Que Faré" - 4:26
12. "Arco Iris" - 6:34

Personnel

• Amina Alaoui - vocals, daf
• Saïf Alah Ben Abderrazak - violin
• Eduardo Miranda - mandolin
• José Luis Montón - flamenco guitar
• Sofiane Negra - oud
• Idriss Agnel - percussion

References

1. Arco Iris at AllMusic
2. New York Times, July 3, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/music/new-cds-from-shabazz-palaces-foster-the-people-and-wu-lyf.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Amina%20Alaoui&st=cse