RAKSHA MANCHAM recently completed the recording and mixing of their new CD 'Ghazels'. The title - 'Ghazels' may designate 'beautiful girls' ('beauties') as well lyrical poems and comes from the great Persian lyrical poet Hafiz who described his 'ghazels' in such way: 'At the hour of parting, by going away from you, my eyes came empty of light by dint of weeping'. The project 'Ghazels' is then clearly related with spheres from the desert: North Africa and Middle East. This Compact Disc has originally been conceived by Astartè and Dta-Wa-E with help of some Berberian musicians in Ghadames, Jamahiriya of Libya in September 1993. It contains more than fourty minutes of unreleased material, including the tracks: Bedun, Ahd Er Rahman, Reguibat Illa Tinduf, Konya Dans, Ouled-Nail, Dakanil, Dakne, Fiddayyin, Qabial, Zawaj, Peshmerga, Tubu Ghzali, Illa Bardai, Arabiya Fahrana. RAHSHA MANCHAM will work soon on a new project 's-Bas Yul' ('The Hidden Land') to be released as a CD during 1998. The instruments used by the group included: acoustic percussions, Arghul (Egyptian double bamboo flute), bass drum, bells, claves, congas, cymbals, darbouka, Djembe (Malian drum), Kora (west African harp-flute), mandolin, Riqq (Egyptian tambourine), Sallamiya (Egyptian reed flute), Shenai (Nepalese shawn), Tal (Egyptian cymbals), zither..... All the benefits on the royalties from this Cd will be given to the Tibetan Youth congress, a worldwide organization that struggles for the restoration of the complete indipendance of Tibet.
		RAKSHA MANCHAM 'Ghazels' format: CD catalogue number: eee 19
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