{"id":12952,"date":"2023-10-06T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12952"},"modified":"2023-10-11T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:22:16","slug":"habibi-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/06\/habibi-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Habibi Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6319513\/habibi-funk-arabic-music-global-popularity\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6319513\/habibi-funk-arabic-music-global-popularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from TIME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Arab Funk Is Going Global<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/armani-syed\/\">ARMANI SYED<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armani_sy\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Habibi Funk | Boiler Room Manchester: Repercussion\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7zj4agjB_Y?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In London\u2019s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum\u2019s song\u00a0<em>Alf Leila Wleila<\/em>\u00a0is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue\u2019s rotating disco ball\u2014lighting up the faces of an intimate crowd who are waiting, drinks in hand, for Berlin record label Habibi Funk\u2019s first live music show to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s late August and this diverse group of music lovers doesn\u2019t seem entirely sure what they\u2019re in for. But when Lebanese musician Charif Megarbane and his band takes the stage, the crowd loosens up. Tall and floppy-haired, Megarbane delights audience members with multi-instrumental songs from his new album\u00a0<em>Marzipan<\/em>, which was released in July by Habibi Funk. \u201cHopefully you appreciate it all and thank you again for coming,\u201d Megarbane says, to cheers, as he warms up the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, global interest in Arabic music has surged. TikTok and Instagram have helped a new wave of Arab talent such as Saint Levant, Issam Alnajjar, and Wegz reach tens of millions<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of people. Parties such as Beirut Groove Collective, Laylit, and DJ Nooriyah\u2019s Middle of Nowhere frequently sell out in London, New York, and other Western metropolises. All of this has even prompted the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the global body for recorded music, to launch in November the first ever regional MENA music chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6319513\/habibi-funk-arabic-music-global-popularity\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6319513\/habibi-funk-arabic-music-global-popularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME How Arab Funk Is Going Global BY\u00a0ARMANI SYED In London\u2019s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum\u2019s song\u00a0Alf Leila Wleila\u00a0is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue\u2019s rotating disco ball\u2014lighting up the faces of an intimate crowd who are waiting, drinks in hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}