Hamza El Din, Eclipse - 44m 36s

Tracks & Durations

1. Helalisa (Nubian Song)	3:47
2. The Visitors	10:01
3. Ollin Azageed	8:30
4. Your Love is Ever Young	18:29
5. Mwashah	3:44

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Review

Unique among Middle Eastern artists, El Din is a Nubian oud player and singer from the Sudan who studied his craft in Cairo, and fashioned the oud--normally used for accompaniment or in ensembles--into a solo instrument, combining Nubian and Arabic musical gestures. Eclipse--produced by Grateful Dead drummer and world-music champion Mickey Hart--exploits elastic rhythms and repetitive motifs in moody, majestic pieces like "Helalisa," the lovelorn song of an Egyptian field hand, and "Your Love Is Ever Young," inspired by Egypt's late queen of song, Um Kalthoum. Fans of Turkish oud masters (like the great Udi Hrant) will find El Din's penetrating tone and attack familiar, though his arrangements and vocal accompaniments are a different beast altogether, producing an evocative, melancholy music that draws on several traditions simultaneously. --James Rotondi

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Eclipse

Tracks: 5, Disk length: 44m 37s (+0m 1s)

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