Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970's Egypt, by Baligh Hamdi

Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970's Egypt

by Baligh Hamdi

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1.	Ghada 02:12	buy track
2.	Zabour 01:58	buy track
3.	The Wanderer 02:56	buy track
4.	Mawal 01:43	buy track
5.	Ennai 05:28	buy track
6.	Mawood 04:04	buy track
7.	Bambah 04:54	buy track
8.	Musical Introduction 03:00	buy track
9.	Gazairia 05:41	buy track
10.	Chaka Chico 04:49	buy track
11.	Zai Elhawa 04:24	buy track
12.	Sahara 01:21	buy track
13.	Hanim 02:25	buy track
14.	Noussa 01:13	buy track
15.	Zamane 03:07	buy track
16.	Iskandarani 01:52	buy track
17.	Amira 01:54	buy track
18.	Salamat 05:23	buy track
19.	Love Story 04:00	buy track

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Sublime Frequencies finally unleashes it’s ESSENTIAL compilation from 1970’s Egypt. Modal instrumental tracks from Baligh Hamdi - one of the most important Arabic composers of the 20th Century (writing for legends Umm Kalthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Sabah, Warda, and many others). Features his legendary group the “Diamond Orchestra” with Omar Khorshid on guitar, Magdi al-Husseini on organ, Samir Sourour on saxophone, and Faruq Salama on accordion. All of these musicians were discovered and recruited by Hamdi to interpret his vision of a modernized, hybrid Arabic music. Under Hamdi’s direction, this orchestra charted a new melodic direction and created a new musical language. This compilation is culled from a specific era of Hamdi’s long career, a decade where he fully realized an international music which incorporated beat driven Eastern tinged jazz, theremin draped orchestral noir, tracks that feature searing guitar solos from none other than Omar Khorshid, and a selection of buzzing, sitar driven, Indo-Arabic tracks establishing a meeting of mid-east and eastern psychedelic exotica, and a vision that created some of the hippest music coming out of the Middle East from the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s.

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released August 6, 2021

Housed in a beautiful full-color tip-on gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes by Hisham Mayet.

CD release mid-September 2021
2LP release date mid-November 2021

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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