Hamza El Din

Hamza El Din
Music of Nubia


Album : Music of Nubia
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1991
Original release date : 1964
Label : Vanguard Records
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 58,6 MB
Total time : 00:42:35


Tracks :
1. Fegir Nedan :: Call To Worship
2. Desse Barama :: Peace
3. Aiga Denos Ailanga :: Give Back My Heart
4. Hoi to Irkil Fagiu :: The Message Bearer
5. Kuto Fa Pattaroni :: Children's Songs
6. Shahadag Og :: Believe!
7. Nabra :: Raw Gold
8. Nubala :: Nubiana

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Hamza el-Din was born in Nubia, amongst the people of the Upper Nile. While studying engineering in Cairo he took up the oud, and later went on to study the instrument at the Conservatory of Music in Cairo during his spare time. It was at this time, and while undertaking further study in Rome, that he began to develop his unique style, which blends themes from Nubian traditional music with the more structured framework of Arabic classical music.

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Hamza El Din – Al Oud


Album : Al Oud
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1994
Original release date : 1965
Label : Vanguard Records
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 68,8 MB
Total time : 00:44:31

Tracks :
1. Assaramessuga (Childhood) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
2. Shortunga (The Spirits) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
3. Annun Sira' (Grandfathers' Stories) - comp. Hamza El Din
4. Gillina Nura (Did Nura Remember) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
5. Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu (The Message Bearer) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
6. The Gondola - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
7. Nuban Uto (Call for Unity) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
8. Kogosh (The Fortune Teller) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
9. Abdin (Greeting Card) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif

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Hamza El Din
Escalay (The Water Weel)


Album : Escalay (The Water Wheel)
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1971
Label : Nonesuch
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 95 MB (mp3), 186 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 00:38:06

Tracks:
01-The Water Weel
02-I Remember
03-Song with Tar


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When this set--part of the Nonesuch Explorer Series--was first released, Hamza El Din had already headlined at the Newport Folk Festival and Woodstock and released an album on the Vanguard label. But this was the one that put him on the map, bringing his oud (Arab lute,) tar (an ancient frame drum), and plaintive vocals to a much wider audience. Born in 1929, El Din has dedicated his life to the music of his ancestral homeland of Nubia, much of which now lies underwater in the shadow of the Aswan Dam. The title track, a 21-minute meditation based on the creaking, rhythmic sounds of a wooden water wheel, later became his signature work. Despite the unadorned simplicity of his forces, El Din evokes centuries of laboring agrarian workers. He later re-recorded the piece several times, including a version with the Kronos Quartet, but he has never quite duplicated the tidal ebb-and-flow of the original performance. --Christina Roden

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Hamza El Din - Eclipse


Album : Eclipse
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1978
Label : Rykodisc
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 68,7 MB
Total time : 00:44:31

Tracks :
1. Helalisa (Nubian Sons)
2. The Visitors
3. Ollin Arageed
4. Your Love Is Ever Young
5. Mwashah

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Hamza El Din, pioneering oud master from Sudan, performs mesmerizing music based on traditional Arabic forms.
As the Moors swept across the northern stretches of the African continent, they left in their wake a rich legacy of music, myths, and legends. Performing brilliantly on the oud (the Arab precursor of the lute) and on the tar (the ancient single-skinned frame drum of the upper Nile), interwoven with his hypnotic voice, he has singlehandedly created a new music, essentially a Nubian/Arabic fusion in line with both traditions and informed by Western conservatory training. This album includes an original composition,"The Visitors," which he composed in Baghdad in 1965, in Iraqi Arabic with Egyptian melody and Sudanese pentatonic.

Other tracks feature his arrangements of traditional songs celebrating a first wedding ("Ollin Arageed"); sending a river-pulley worker's greetings to his beloved via a pelican ("Helalisa"); and paying tribute to the incomparable Egyptian songstress Um Kalthoum (1902-1975). "Mwashah" is a classical piece from the time of the Moors in Spain, traditionally used to train voices.

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