Omar SouleymanBest Omar Souleyman Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
12
Opinions
5
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 12 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Omar Souleyman's catalog across 5 albums from 12 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Omar Souleyman album is Shlon (2019) with a 7.6/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Wenu Wenu and To Syria, With Love. The discography on Wavelength spans 2013 to 2024. Warni Warni ranks as the highest-rated Omar Souleyman song on Wavelength with a 8.2/10 average.
Shlon
“the prolific dance-pop don offers a much-needed shot of happiness”
To Syria, With Love
“Omar Souleyman is reported to have released 500 live albums in Syria, recorded mainly at weddings before the country’s civil war forced him into exile in 2011. With that conflict only worsening six years in, and Souleyman dedicating his new record “with love” to his homeland, one could be forgiven for anticipating a somewhat melancholic tone here. The singer’s 503rd (ish) album, however, contains ”
Bahdeni Nami
“Omar Souleyman is the coolest man on the planet”
Wenu Wenu
“Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s Wenu Wenu is technically his first proper recording, having been cut in a studio in Brooklyn rather than on site at one of the thousands of weddings he’s performed over the past two decades. Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, who produced, made the wise decision not to try and improve on a sound that doesn’t need fixing.”
Shlon
“Omar Souleyman returns with another album of sonic marvels”
Wenu Wenu
“Wedding-singer-cum-Björk remixer Omar Souleyman is known for urban Syrian dabke dance music. But his hookahbar synths, guitar-hero electric saz runs and blazing digitized hand percussion will probably translate to most Western ravers as EDM-grade belly-dance music. And why not? Singing in Arabic and Kurdish, he pitches R&B woo, invoking camelhair scarves ("Yagbuni") and Damascus honeymoons (the Ar”
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