Ahmed Adaweia - Adaweia 91 (vaporwave listener friendly shaabi/new sound mania)

I was just listening to this on cassette and thinking I must digitize it (but, quasi-invalid as I've been for years, I won't be getting to it any time soon). Looks like there are now two copies on youtube but without the cheap cassette sound that might add authenticity.

This is a rollicking shaabi veteran meets new sound production album (EP?), with unexpected tempo switches and bombastic snippets of melody. A lot of it consists of Adaweya medleys.

Side (1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4xBwD2Hv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDryBB-wc70

Side (2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHNgw0RCC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVTUGuZg8Q

Also available via this playlist, but I thought the sound seemed a little beter on the ones I linked to above. Maybe my imagination.

There is also an Israeli version (Rona) of the third track here (and this is not by any means the main Arab version of it), but I forget which came first. I think it was Egyptian first though.

A lot of what Adaweya sings is sort of nonsensical tongue-twisters or rompecabezas.

I have no idea how this compares to most of his other releases, since I've only heard a few, but this one has a crazed magic to it. This one is so great. Excuse my feeble attempts to convey that.

(I don't quite understand vaporwave, but the last track in particular seems like something that would appeal to that aesthetic.)

Too bad about Zionism, I used to like dancing to this. ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bj7JNZnBrE

Seriously, it does make me nostalgic and sad to hear that.

Ah, here's an earlier Adaweia recording from the 70s. Maybe it was originally his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJwmifzRA9w

This is such a curmudgeon title, but hearing this again made me think of how it has some sounds that could be mined by vaporwave producers, at least if I understand the genre correctly, which I might not.