Double CD presenting Yair Dalal & friends in LIVE concert, performing the folk music of the Middle East, songs that date back dozens of generations. Music that rises above conflicts and brings unity, joy and hope to the hearts.
The album was recorded live at a concert in Jerusalem in November 2004 with Jewish and Arab musicians, and is dedicated to the folk music of the Middle East. The songs which all the people of the region grew up with. Arabs, Jews, Christians and Moslems - people of all nationalities and tribes who share the same musical culture.

This double CD album includes 12 tracks (six at each CD), mostly folk songs from the region, in various languages - Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Iraqi & Moroccan dialects, etc.
The album presents a rare combination of 'Piyutim' (Jewish Liturgical songs) and Arabic folk songs,a blend which exists mostly in Iraqi tradition.
Among the gifted musicians participating is the female singer Liora Itzhak, the oud player Sameer Makhoul, the cantor David Menahem and the singer Haim Ankri.
The album includes a touching performance of the song "Yad Anuga" by Zalman Shne'or in a folk-Mizrachi melody, and extraordinary singing by Liora Itzhak combining classic Indian musical tradition.
The listeners will also recognize the song "Zaman El Salam", which Dalal wrote to honor the Oslo peace agreements in 1994, in a cross-borders performance.

In these hard times in the Middle East, as tension is raising worldwide and the continues conflicts between Jews, Arabs and Moslems, Yair Dalal uses the music as a symbol to the yearning for better and more complete life, in Peace.

...And Peace, Inshalla (with God's help), will be sung like a folk song that sends its simple and honest message to all, regardless of religion, race or nationality. Amen.
Yair Dalal