Hamza El Din - Escalay: The Water Wheel
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Artist: Hamza El DinEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1998-01-13
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Water Wheel
- I Remember
- Song With Tar
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Free Music Review: Transcendent African Experience
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow! This highly rewarding album is likely completely alien to most listeners. I had never heard of the Oud before, but the virtuosity of Hamza El Din shines through even without a strong frame of reference. The highly emotional songs accomplish the great feat of transporting the listener directly to the source, and El Din's voice is pretty awesome too.
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One of the first world-music releases to reach Western ears (originally issued in 1968), this album rightfully established Hamza El Din as one of the leading instrumentalists on the lutelike oud, which he taught to guitarist Sandy Bull and others. The three tracks that comprise this disc, all lengthy improvisations, showcase El Din's remarkably fluid technique and his Nubian roots, whether on the traditional "Song with Tar" or "I Remember," which was originally performed by Egypt's greatest diva, Om Kalthoum. Perhaps the best example of El Din's instrumental meditations, however, is the title track, which is his own composition. Its lines ripple and sway, then stop to ponder and work around a phrase before moving on--a style unique at the time, but which influenced a generation of oud players that followed. A masterpiece. --Chris NicksonFolk Music CDs
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