A beautiful selection of field recordings and cassettes from early ‘80s Cairo. Compiled and mixed by Jim Haas.
TRACKLIST
01 confluence of early morning muezzins - the beautiful chaos that is Cairo
02 street musicians - drummer, mizmars, firecracker, rooster, Cairo
03 Mitaal Enawy - Bellail Bellail; Dunya al-Fan Music Center advertisement
04 al-Sheikh Sawdeeq - Wa-Allah ya ghawaly (Bedouin)
05 radio drama, cool organ
06 Said Darweesh - Hellay halla (an expression of the worker's happiness)
07 Sawlih Abu Bakr - Zifat al-'Arees (Nubia)
08 Beyoumy al-Margawy - title unknown
09 Cairo street market and traffic sounds
10 Abdel Halim Hafez - untitled blues
11 Abanob and Dalia - Coptic Folk - Ancient Egyptian New Year
12 Coptic speaker المتحدثين باللغة القبطيةالمصرية القديمة
13 Coptic song - from the Pharaonic Institute for Coptic Music
14 Fatma Eid - Hassanen wa Mohamaden - song promoting family planning
15 radio soap opera
16 al-Tanbura - Nahnu al-Bamboubiya, from the album Friends of Bamboute (Port Said); soccer announcer - not one goal, but two!
17 family party song; vintage Egyptian film music: Ismahan, Laila Murad, Muharram Fouad, Ismail Yassin, al-Thalawy, Shadia, Laila Murad
18 Abu Dura' - al-Rab wahid
19 President Hosni Mubarak (1982); miliitary band playing Egypt's national anthem; anonymous sheikh - Islamic religious song
20 Abu al-Wifa al-Suhagy and Intisawr Magdy -Ihna ma'ak
21 shortwave broadcasts recorded in Cairo
22 Mohamed Gamih and Atif Mersal - ney and drum
23 Howaida Abu al-Khul (Bedouin) - Shayif lak shoufa
24 radio tomfoolery and musical snippets
25 Hussein Bashir - Samar al-loon (Nubia )
26 anonymous - Zar, sufi music from Southern Egypt
27 Musicians of the Nile - Mawwal-doha and Rais al-bahr
28 Wedding music and word game (Cairo)
29 anonymous - Egyptian Bedouin music from the Sinai Peninsula
30 Fauzy al-Gamal - Ya azeeza (Ismailiya)
31 anonymous song recorded off the radio, Cairo
32 recorded live at the Siwa Oasis, Western Desert
33 Sheikh 'Abdu al-Naby al-Zaman - religious recitation
34 wedding celebrations in Southern Egypt - modern and traditional; zagrouta (ululation)!
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