• Merit Ariane
  • The River
  • flussmond productions, 2013
  • MAS01
  • 1. Ya Ghusna Naqa (Mwashshah)
  • 2. Ya Zahratan fi Khayali
  • 3. Nami Nami
  • 4. Shams e Shammusa
  • 5. Der Fluss (The River)
  • 6. Oudak Rannan
  • 7. Sihtou Wajdan (Mwashshah)
  • 8. Adio Querida/Ya Lor
  • 9. The Moon

Classical Arabic songs and original compositions, this album is a dedication to the rich traditions of Arabic music.

With: Abdul Salam Kheir (Oud, Voice), Louai Alhenawi (Nay), Gamal 'el Kurdi' Awad (Accordion), Emile Bassili (Violin), Stuart Hall (Guitar), Meg Hamilton (Violin), Alcyona Mick (Piano), Milos Milivojevic (Accordion) and Haitham el Souba'i (Percussion)

  • HjazSounds, 2009
  • 1. Ana La Habibi (Rahbani Brothers)
  • 2. Zuruni (Sayyed Darwish)
  • 3. Ana Fintizarak & Lamma Bada (Zakaria Ahmed/Salim Al Masri)
  • 4. Aatinee Naya Wa Ghanni (Mwashshah by Bahjat Hassan)
  • 5. Indome para Marsilia (trad. Sephardic)
  • 6. Paxaro (trad. Sephardic)

New jazzy arrangements of Arab classical and folk songs by Hjaz: Merit Ariane Stephanos (Voice) and Alcyona Mick (Piano)

  • Woven Gold
  • 'Much more than Metal'
  • Helen Bamber Foundation, 2009
  • HB001CD
  • 1. Setmalo
  • 2. Leylo
  • 3. Ama Ee Bu
  • 4. Ah Poor Bird
  • 5. Bizvire
  • 6. Ndo Famba Naye
  • 7. Her Beyo
  • 8. No Borders
  • 9. Shabaz Qalander

Woven Gold is a choir made up of refugees fleeing persecution. Their music has a raw energy and power drawn from harrowing experiences and from the diversity of the musical cultures they have come from – Burma, Congo, Guinea, Iran, Kenya, Kurdistan.

All this is made possible by the Helen Bamber Foundation, a charity that offers medical, therapeutic and practical support to survivors of gross human rights violations.

  • scrt
  • 'journey without maps'
  • scrt recordings, 2010
  • 59703 73409
  • From the Film 'Children of Gaza'

  • 1. journey without maps
  • 2. before the war
  • 3. omsayate's song
  • 4. gates of raffa
  • 5. close to the truth
  • 6. diaspora

Recorded for the Channel 4 documentary 'Dispatches: Children of Gaza', directed by Jezza Neumann.

  • Choirs of St Catherine's College, Cambridge
  • 'The Thread of my Song'
  • St Catherine's College, 2011
  • SCC2011
  • Merit features on 'Ecce Quam Bonum' by Jonathan Greene composed for her and St Catherine's College Girls' Choir.

'Ecce quam bonum', written for solo voice, choir and electronics, is based on Psalm 133 and an Arabic poem written by Abdul Salam Kheir.