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Release Date: 29-11-2003
Label: Rough Guides
Catalog Number: RG1114-2
Barcode: 605633111422
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leih Sebtaha; Angham [05:28] | 8 | Adini Regeatelek; Amr Diab [03:39] |
| 2 | Aktar Wahed Beyhebak; Amr Diab [04:31] | 9 | Jafnoho Allama El Ghazal; Mohamed Abdel Wahab [05:50] |
| 3 | Ana Baashaq El Bahr; Nagat El Saghira [05:31] | 10 | Walaw Ennak Ya Habibi Beied; Warda [04:15] |
| 4 | Hayart Albi Maak; Mahmoud Fadl & Salwa Abou Greisha [07:56] | 11 | Nabra (Gold Ore); Hamza El Din [06:44] |
| 5 | Henna; Ali Hassan Kuban [03:57] | 12 | Ah Law Tearaf; Nagat El Saghira [08:24] |
| 6 | Sala Fi Serri We Gahri; Mohamed Mounir [06:57] | 13 | Ahwak; Abdel Halim Hafez [04:58] |
| 7 | Tedhak Alaia; Angham [04:26] | ||
Description:
Cairo is the centre of the Arabic music and film industries that to this day dominate output from Marrakech to Beirut. The sheer magnetism of such a heaving metropolis has long attracted Arab musicians and poets, and continues to do so to this day as Egyptian music is influenced by and in turn affects world cultural currents. The resulting renaissance has energized society and music mirrors these modernizing social trends – Egyptian pop has broken with the Arabic traditions of poetry, monophony and intricate melody, offering a fresh and sometimes controversial outlook. This album surveys the Egyptian music scene, the spiritual home of Arabic music, from Cairo and Alexandria in the north, to Nubia on the southern borders with Sudan.
