| Various Artists / Nile Project |
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| Album: | Nile Project | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Apr 2015 | |
| Label: | Y Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-05-01 | Pull Date: | 2015-07-03 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jul 5 | Jun 28 | Jun 21 | Jun 14 | May 31 | May 24 | May 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 22, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Music Casserole Aysn, Zegiewh, Salaam Nubia | 4. | Jul 04, 2015: | Music Casserole Aysn, Zegiewh, Salaam Nubia | |
| 2. | May 15, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Music Casserole Tezeta | 5. | Jun 28, 2015: | Breakaway Bluff Shagwab | |
| 3. | Apr 10, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Music Casserole Aysn | 6. | Jun 27, 2015: | Music Casserole Tezeta |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2015-04-25 | ||
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The Nile Project: ASWAN: 18 musicians from countries around the Nile met and jammed for 10 days to produce a live concert recording where African music meets the Middle East; full of texture, musical conversations, and beautifully recorded; FCC clean; favorite tracks * 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13 1-Shagwab (4:47) slow, meditative, male voice with Sudanese lyre and strings; lots of vibrato, tremulo 2-* Salaam Nubia (4:26) Sudanese, starts slow, picks up speed, female voice; interesting percussion; unison singing; lots of variety on this track 3-Ami Ya Gamal (2:35) fairly standard Egyptian Arabic male call and response from female singers; fast tempo 4-Tezeta *(4:52) Ethiopian starts with really nice taqseem (improvised sax solo). Segues to vocal, polyrhythmic 5-Zegiewh *(3:58) More Ethiopian, starts with taqseem, English lyrics, vocal echoes of Grace Slick, segues to slow instrumental plus Amharic (?), waltz rhythm, weird and interesting! 6-Omha (4:13), village-sounding less sophisticated music from the Sudan, vocal repetitive, mid-tempo 7-Aysh *(8:23), meditative, beautiful, long instrumental from Egypt, gradually picking up speed; spectacular tremulo and texture variety 8-Neel (7:10) ; Egyptian and Nubian, classical sounding vocals. Unison singing sounds a little flat to my western ear (or maybe it's just quartertones); mid-tempo 9-*St. Yared of Axvan –Ethiopian (5:51); wonderful sax taqseem, instrumental above polyrhythmic percussion and bass 10-Kullina Wahed (3:53) –South Sudan nice belly dance type rhythm; good percussion call and response between female soloist and chorus 11-Sematimba ne kikwabanga (8:16) –From Uganda; African beat, singing, polyrhythmic, jazz-y,dense, long, with percussion solos, 12-Taksim Oud (1:59) –beautiful, accomplished oud solo 13 – Ya Genouby* (7:00) Egyptian female vocalist with unison accompaniment, rich instrumental texture, layered vocals, nice horn interlude w/oud doing bass; lots of texture and improv 14 – Sekota (3:37) – Ethiopian heavy drumming with male vocals. A little chaotic 15 – Guyala (2:54) – Ethiopian, but everyone jumps in | ||
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