Charles Bukowski

"Living is a matter of / adjusting to / zero. /Death, like life, / solves / nothing."

Ya Rayah

Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, Faudel - AbdelKader (123 Soleils)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ1fzrGMMQk


Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, Faudel - Ya Rayah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SUsaOhihA

Rachid Taha - Ya Rayah...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPhCmmfKiE

Ya Rayeh (Olympia 2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh5zcD_Bda8

Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli
Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli

Chhal cheft al bouldan laamrine wa lber al khali
Chhal dhiyaat wqat chhal tzid mazal ou t'khali
Ya lghayeb fi bled ennas chhal taaya ma tadjri
Tzid waad el qoudra wala zmane wenta ma tedri

Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli
Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli

Ya msafer naatik oussaayti addiha el bakri
Chouf ma yeslah bik qbal ma tbia ou ma techri
Ya nnayem djani khabrek ma sralek ma srali
Hakdha rad el qalb bel djbine sabhane el aali

Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli
Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli
Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli
Ya rayah win msafar trouh taaya wa twali
Chhal nadmou laabad el ghaflin qablak ou qabli

Ya Rayah

Goran Bregovic - So Nevo Si (Erkekler, Ya Rayah)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgKxZ-HSvi8

The Eclectic Genius of Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra -- The Debut in the USA.
July 10, 2006
Millennium Park
Chicago, IL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlK--2Z1JT0

Ya rayah by Dahmane El Harrachi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j0L57HJkm4
http://www.belarbi.org/poetry/arabic/Ya_Rayah.html

And I have a translation of lyrics to Rachid Taha's "Ya Rayah".

Oh departing Traveler, where are you heading?
Your journey is bound to failure
How many travelers before you
Have sought the path with similar results?

How many cities and deserts have I roamed?
How much time have I wasted
Touring from one place to another?

Oh lost one, no matter how much you run away
Your destiny will end in exhaustion
Time has passed you by
And you have yet to notice it.



Rachid Taha - Oh Emigrant

Oh where are you going?
Eventually you must come back
How many ignorant people have regretted this
Before you and me

How many overpopulated countries and empty lands have you seen?
How much time have you wasted?
How much have you yet to lose?
Oh emigrant in the country of others
Do you even know what's going on?
Destiny and time follow their course but you ignore it

Why is your heart so sad?
And why are you staying there miserable?
Hardship will end and you no longer learn or build anything
The days don't last, just as your youth and mine didn't
Oh poor fellow who missed his chance just as I missed mine

Oh traveler, I give you a piece of advice to follow right away
See what is in your interest before you sell or buy
Oh sleeper, your news reached me
And what happened to you happened to me
Thus, the heart returns to its creator, the Highest (God)

Matsuri

Hanagasa Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_cwohB3ozc

Matsuri

2005 Nagoya matsuri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_n3RN_3UYA

Matsuri

Peace of Japanese culture found in Aichi Expo 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3tKf5hwIw

Peace of Japanese culture found in Aichi Expo 2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW02kJ_9lT8

Slack Key

Ki Ho'alu (Slack Key) Original by Lanaki
Copyrighted under the title, "Makana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6jZ8O7oAU8

FCTV Slack Key "Punahele"
this is from Raymond Kane and originally arranged by Ron Loo,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6M-262of00

FCTV Slack Key "Kaahele Kihoalu"
Ozzie Kotani's "Kaahele Kihoalu"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDEpTyPmNM

FCTV Slack Key "Waioke aniani"
Raymond Kane's Waioke aniani arranged by Slack Key master Ron Loo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXx8zkHCok

FCTV Slack Key "Old Timer's Hula"
Tommy Solomon arranged by Ron Loo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5tZZyNfgfA

Ledward Kaapana & Bob Brozman - In Concert (1997) [Part 1]
Part 1: Kuu Ipo Onaona - LND Slack Key
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFE42cMNNdY

Ledward Kaapana & Bob Brozman - In Concert (1997) [Part 2]
Part 2: Pauhana Slack Key - Koke'e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K460jvU23VQ