Nagi, Karim / Detour Guide
| Album: | Detour Guide | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Nagi, Karim | Added: | Dec 2016 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2016-12-06 | Pull Date: | 2017-02-07 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 5 | Jan 29 | Jan 15 | Jan 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 18 | Dec 11 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 07, 2018: | Melange
Yalla Yalla, Your First Arab |
4. | Jan 26, 2017: | Melange
Baladi Tuktuk |
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| 2. | Jan 11, 2018: | Melange
Yalla Yalla |
5. | Jan 25, 2017: | At the Cafe Bohemian
Your First Arab |
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| 3. | Jan 31, 2017: | Waste FM
Everyone Dabke |
6. | Jan 14, 2017: | Music Casserole
Yalla Yalla, Your First Arab |
Album Review
Margy Kahn
Reviewed 2016-12-03
Reviewed 2016-12-03
Karim Nagi is a native Egyptian drummer, DJ, composer and folk dancer. He is the creator of Turbo Tabla, and has released four internationally distributed CDs of this unique brand of Arab House/Electronica using acoustic instruments. The tracks below are all amazingly well-crafted with lots of interesting percussion, sound-massage, and background noise under the pointed English and Arabic words. Spoken word and musical intro to Arabs in an anti-Arab environment; very Egyptian :-)
NO FCC's; all tracks are worth listening to; favorites: 3, 7, 9,
1- Take A Ride with the Detour Guide (1:03) – loud, noisy intro to this amazing disc
2- Your First Arab (1:29) – amusing spoken list of the types of Arabs you might have met
**3-Yalla Yalla (5:13) – summary of the history and background of Arab Spring in English with Arabic phrase refrains; description of tyrants, etc. rhythmic and apt; Tunis to Egypt; etc.
4- What Arabs Do for Fun (1:55) – amusing spoken word list with lots of details
5- Everyone Dabke (1:55) – heavy duty dabke with English lyrics and then Arabic
6-Reorientalism (1:48) – amusing English rant about how the classic Western “Oriental” morphed into modern day stereotypes
*7- Oriental Magic Carpet (3:17) – the Disney version of Arabia subverted with nice musical underpinning, relationship between oil and carpets
8- This Is Arab Love (1:56) – spoken rant about physical attractions of people, antiquities, landscape, food, music, etc with drumming underneath
*9- Heart Full of Cairo (3:41) – spoken paean to Cairo with all its flaws and attractions from female English speaking POV; lots of traffic noise and drumming in background; amazing sound poem that rings true; ends with calls to come to Tahrir
10- Earn Learn Return (1:38) – reasons people want to emigrate to the West;
11- Baladi Tuktuk (4:16) – returned U.S. educated emigrant now back in Cairo driving a three-wheeled truck taxi; why he came back; great traffic noise background;
12- If I Were Hummus (2:29) – artist's manifesto; reprise of what it means to be Arab these days
NO FCC's; all tracks are worth listening to; favorites: 3, 7, 9,
1- Take A Ride with the Detour Guide (1:03) – loud, noisy intro to this amazing disc
2- Your First Arab (1:29) – amusing spoken list of the types of Arabs you might have met
**3-Yalla Yalla (5:13) – summary of the history and background of Arab Spring in English with Arabic phrase refrains; description of tyrants, etc. rhythmic and apt; Tunis to Egypt; etc.
4- What Arabs Do for Fun (1:55) – amusing spoken word list with lots of details
5- Everyone Dabke (1:55) – heavy duty dabke with English lyrics and then Arabic
6-Reorientalism (1:48) – amusing English rant about how the classic Western “Oriental” morphed into modern day stereotypes
*7- Oriental Magic Carpet (3:17) – the Disney version of Arabia subverted with nice musical underpinning, relationship between oil and carpets
8- This Is Arab Love (1:56) – spoken rant about physical attractions of people, antiquities, landscape, food, music, etc with drumming underneath
*9- Heart Full of Cairo (3:41) – spoken paean to Cairo with all its flaws and attractions from female English speaking POV; lots of traffic noise and drumming in background; amazing sound poem that rings true; ends with calls to come to Tahrir
10- Earn Learn Return (1:38) – reasons people want to emigrate to the West;
11- Baladi Tuktuk (4:16) – returned U.S. educated emigrant now back in Cairo driving a three-wheeled truck taxi; why he came back; great traffic noise background;
12- If I Were Hummus (2:29) – artist's manifesto; reprise of what it means to be Arab these days
Track Listing