In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue’s ...

With a focus on music from the Middle East and North Africa, Habibi Funk co-founder and curator Jannis Stürtz and his team have been reissuing some of the most unexpected and exciting releases of the ...

Habibi Funk, the acclaimed Berlin-based label dedicated to music from the Arabic-speaking world, has unveiled its next release, a compilation of recordings by renowned Lebanese musician Rogér Fakhr.

The 16 tracks that make up the latest Habibi Funk compilation are a heady fusion of sound and fervour. There is some psychedelic disco from Egypt. Other songs are electrified by the carnival energy of ...

Here's a short note from Jannis himself: "Earlier this month I was in North Africa for another digging trip and ended up finding quite some records I didn’t know before or I had no copy of so I felt ...

Habibi Funk is devoted to the percolation of western pop music through the Arab world between the 1960s and 1980s. Compiled by Berlin-based reissue specialist Jannis Stürtz, it is the fruit of record ...

Jannis Stürtz, founder of record label Habibi Funk and DJ is coming back to Electric Pawn Shop this weekend. With Stürtz and bar co-owner Lobito on the decks, the Habibi Funk event is taking place on ...

Habibi Funk, the label highlighting classic music from across the Arab World, shares a track from Sudanese jazz artist Sharhabeel Ahmed which features on new compilation If you’ve read something you ...

Credit - Poster: Raphaelle Macaron/Courtesy Habibi Funk; Saif Abu Bakr: Jannis Stürtz; Ahmed Malek, Sharhabil Ahmed, Fadoul: Courtesy Habibi Funk; Charif Megarbane: Mohamad Al-Rifai; Umm Kulthum: ...