Out Of Nubia
Featuring Mohamed Mounir. Ahmed Mounib . Raquy . Ramy . Nubian Music . Mohamed Wardi . Hamza el Din . Ud . La Salam . Sudan
Mohamed Mounir : Graduated from the Department of Cinematography PolytechnicUniversity of Helwan, Mounir’s functional began when the poet listened to him(Abdul Rahim Mansour) and said that a “This boy who coming from the southwill be the new voice of Egypt ” .
Wikipeida : Nubian folk music can still be heard, but migration and intercultural contact with Egyptian and other musical genres have produced new innovations. Ali Hassan Kuban’s jazz fusions had made him a regular on the world music scene, while Mohamed Mounir’s social criticism and sophisticated pop have made him a star among Nubians, Egyptians, and other people worldwide. Ahmed Mounib, Mohamed Mounir’s mentor, was by far the most notable Nubian singer to hit the Egyptian music scene, singing in both Egyptian Arabic and his native Nobiin. Hamza El Din is another popular Nubian artist
Ahmad Mounib on MySpace : Ahmed Mounib, Mohamed Mounir’s mentor, was by far the most notable Nubian singer to hit the Egyptian music scene, who sang in both Egyptian Arabic and his native Nobiin. The region around the Nile is one of the oldest continually-inhabited areas in the world. Ancient Egyptian musicians are known to have played harps and flutes circa 4000 BC, and double clarinets and lyres from around 3500 BC.
Afropop Worldwide : Once dubbed the “Captain of Nubian Music,” and later the “Godfather” of the genre, Ali Hassan Kuban got his start in the village of Kuban singing and playing percussion “like any other Nubian boy,” as he once put it, and serenading passengers on boats traveling the Nile.
Hamza El Din : “It was mesmerizing. Hypnotic and trancelike,” said Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. “Hamza taught me about the romancing of the drum. His music was very subtle and multilayered.
Mahmoud Fadl on MySpace : Mahmoud Fadl, the Nubian Master Drummer from the Nile, was born in 1955. He is a descent of a Nubian family that is rooted in the Griot culture of the “Battikol” people. He was raised in the Egyptian cities of Assuan and in Cairo and started his musical career as a limbo dancer and musician for Nubian and Arabic wedding celebrations
Answers.com : Following the lead of the Sudanese poet, Mahjoub Sharif, Wardi often adopts the extended metaphor of nation-as-woman, with its rich array of connotative meanings and capacity to bear multiple meanings, something that musicians often feel called upon to practice in the wake of extensive state repression and censorship.
piranha : More new treasures from the Nubian culture vaults presented by Berlin-based Mahmoud Fadl and his group Salamat. A wealth of delicacies from the voluptuous garden of North African tradition – earthy rhythms and oriental melodies, recorded in Cairo with the stars of the Nubian New Wave scene
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