Enticing Hungarian Trad Fusion
Kerekes Band – Fel a Kalappal (Szerzoi Kiadas, 2008) Fel a Kalappal (Hats On!) is an excellent release by innovative Hungarian act Kerekes Band. The…
Rabab Meets Rock
Qais Essar – The Ghost You Love Most (Qaissar, 2018) The Ghost You Love Most presents the music of Qais Essar, a talented Afghan multi-instrumentalist…
Artist Profiles: Diskreetse Mango Trio
Diskreetse Mango Trio is a band that performs folk music, mainly rune-songs, in the key of rock. Despite of their name (Trio) they actually have…
Artist Profiles: Sheikh Yaseen el Tuhamy
Sheikh Yaseen el Tuhamy, from Cairo, is one of Egypt’s best-loved and most compelling Sufi singers (munshid). Sheikh Yaseen’s songs are based on the sacred…
Artist Profiles: Riad Abdel-Gawad
Riad Abdel-Gawad was born May 9, 1965 in Cairo, Egypt. He composes music and performs on the violin, which, although does not fit easily into…
Artist Profiles: Hosam Shaker
Qanun virtuoso Hosam Shaker studied music at the age of fourteen at the Egyptian Academy of Arts in Cairo, obtaining his Master’s Degree in 1989.…
Artist Profiles: Hossam Ramzy
Born in Cairo, on December 15, 1953, Hossam Ramzy’s musical career began at the age of three when he was given his first drum, an…
Artist Profiles: Fathy Salama
Fathy Salama is a well known Egyptian composer, arranger and musician. Fathy is the former creator of jeel music. He composed hits during the 1980s…
Artist Profiles: El Tanbura
El Tanbura are a collective of veteran master musicians, singers, fishermen and Sufi philosophers. For the past years they have been keepers to some of…
Artist Profiles: Amr Diab
Amr Abd El-Basset Abd El-Azeez Diab, better known as Amr Diab, was born in Port Said, Egypt on October 11, 1961. He grew up in…