SIMON SHAHEEN

TURATH

  1/  Bashraf Farahfaza                          (Isma'il Haqqi)               5.45
  2/  Sama'i Farahfaza                           (Tanburi Jamil)               6.31
  3/  Taqasim on Violin                          (Simon Shaheen)               1.32
  4/  Longa Farahfaza                            (Riyad al-Sinbati)            3.14
  5/  Taqasim on the Beat                        (Shaheen,Khalil)              9.28    
  6/  Sama'i Nahawand                            (Mas'ud Jamil)                8.12
  7/  Tahmilah Suznak                            (Unknown)                     6.21
  8/  Sama'i Nahawand                            (Ali Jihad Raci)              6.25
  9/  Bashraf Kurd                               (Asdik Aga)                   4.16
  10/ Taqasim on Nay                             (Faruk Tekbilek)              1.13
  11/ Sama'i Kurd                                (Simon Shaheen)               5.51

          Recorded at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York, January 1991
          Mixed at Platinum Island Studio, New York
          Engineer: Oz Fritz for High Velocity
          Produced by Bill Laswell and Simon Shaheen
          Executive Producer: Kurt Renker
          Mastered at Masterdisk by Howie Weinberg

Simon Shaheen: violin, oud, bass oud; Faruk Tekbilek: ney; Hassan Ishkut: qanun; Samir Khalil: riqq, tar.

          1992 - CMP Records (Germany), CMP CD 3006 (CD)

Note: Bill Laswell does not play on this album.