ABU ZELUF
Created on 09/11/2009Latest update on 08/04/2023
Artist: Dunya Yunis
Author: traditional
Label: Tangent
Year: 1975
Young girl from a north Libanese mountain village, recorded by Jean Jenkins & Poul Rovsing Olsen and released in '76 on lp The Human Voice, part of series Music In The World Of Islam.
Covers:
- 1981:
David Byrne & Brian Eno [sample in both Regiment and The Carrier from My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, making no secret of the source]
- 1987:
M/A/R/R/S [same sample in Pump Up The Volume pt 2, sometimes crediting Ofra Haza; n°1 UK]
- 1987:
Yello [sample two minutes into Santiago]
Qu'ran, another track from My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, holds a sample from an unknown Algerian singing group, found on the same source.
