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Finally it has been found…The Oldest Assyrian Record, Number One!
We had became aware of the existence of these very old music “Assyrian records” from an advertisement published in an issue of “The New Assyria” Magazine dated to 1917, and it took me few years before I was lucky enough to locate and purchase copies of the actual music records in 2012. And it immediately […]
A brief look at the Assyrian cassette culture and its demise.
In the 1980s, Iraqi television had only two channels dedicated to the Arab state and culture, while the Assyrian language was not permitted on TV or radio, so cassettes became the only source to distribute our popular culture, entertainment, and, at times, national education. The majority of Assyrian tapes were produced in the United States […]
Caravan Music House – Baghdad
These days Assyrian singers produce and distribute their own albums, but it wasn’t always this way. Assyrians as early as the late 1950s had established a number of music recording labels, those were mainly in Iraq and Iran, those production companies were responsible for signing new singers, producing and distributing their albums locally and internationally. […]
Kosrof Malool first Assyrian singer and his 78rpm records خسروف ملول
First Assyrian singer with the oldest record, but no songs in Assyrian. Khosroff Malool, was born ca.1884 in Diyarbakır (Amid)-Turkey, and after a long arduous journey escaping the looming troubles in Anatolia, he arrived in America in 1904, and in 1908 his wife Madam Hrepsme Malool and his two sons, Anton and Edward joined […]
Albert Ruel Tamras – Life And Music by Moneer Cherie
Born in the iraqi city of Habbaniya in 1944, to father Ruel Tamras and mother Madam Khanna, he was married to Madam Yolia David, had one son Yousip and two daughters Nahrain and Nurra. Albert began singing officially in 1960s, he wrote the lyrics to all of his songs, and composed some of the music […]
First Assyrian albums, on different formats.
This is an attempt to compile a list of our first and last albums released on different music formats. By Moneer Cherie The first known Assyrian record in the world was released in 1917 it was a Shellac 78rpm record, released in USA by Joseph and Anna Yonan. Shellac : Is the materials discs […]
الموسيقى والترتيل بين الامس واليوم
الموسيقى والترتيل بين الامس واليوم لطيف پولا سبق وان قلنا في تقديمنا لأنواع التراتيل مثل (اِمر لي عيتا ايكا ؤبٌيتي ابٌنكي إمر لي عيتا أيكا صويت اونيخ …) وهي من مقام البيات و ( ةًاوو سبٌوو اخًيْ ـ تاو ساو احاي ) من مقام أورفا ديواني […]
Assyrian Bands in Iraq ذكريات الفرق الاشورية في العراق
Compiled & written by Moneer Cherie. Bands in general are a small ensemble of musicians, mainly playing folk and pop songs, they usually consisted of a singer, drummer, Keyboard/organ, Guitar and Bass players. I believe the earliest Assyrian “western instruments” bands were formed in the early 1940s in the city of Habbaniya, later on, […]