A Song I Like: Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali

A Song I Like: Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali
A young Ziad Rahbani. He was 20 or so when he wrote this, as far as I can tell.

Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, vocalist, actor, and playwright. Among other things, I'm sure. Actually, Wikipedia says "political commentator" too, dang. Anyways, he's the son of the popular singer Fairouz and the composer Assi Rahbani, of the Rahbani Brothers. Mostly known in the "west" for 1985's Houdou' Nisbi, which I will definitely get into at some point, I figured I would post "Abu Ali," a song written about Abu Ali Mustafa, one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who Rahbani apparently had a mutual friend with. The song is meant to sound like a mission through the mountains in a Jeep (you can hear a truck engine at points, even), and thus switches between "up" and "down" motifs and then there's this cool part where – ah you'll hear it, just listen:

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أبو علي - زياد الرحباني
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Anyway, you may know the name Abu Ali Mustafa from the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the PFLP, They renamed themselves that in 2001, after Abu Ali was martyred by the Zionist entity. They've been giving the entity's forces a hard time in Gaza lately.

Looks like you can order a vinyl reprint from WEWANTSOUNDS if that's your sort of thing, which is pretty cool. Anyway, that's all.