Tag: Baligh Hamdy

• Diggers’ delights on Nagat El Seghira’s cult 1980 album – originally released on cassette, now cut to vinyl for first time by Wewantsounds and Disco Arabesquo

  

  The track Ana Basha El Bahr (“I Adore The Sea”) by Nagat El Seghira will have loopdiggas frothing at the mouth through its reissue by Wewantsounds and Disco Arabesquo – originally only on cassette and produced by Hany Shenouda, also a musician in cult group Al Massrieen.  The reissue of the collectors’ album from 1980…

  WTM

  August 25, 2023

  Egypt, North Africa

  Al Massrieen, Arabic funk and disco scene, Baligh Hamdy, Disco Arabesquo, Egypt, Hany Shenouda, Kamal Al Taweel, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Muhamad Hosny, Nagat Al Saghira, Nizar Qabbani, Soad Hosny, Wewantsounds

• ‘The Voice of Egypt’ lives on – pioneer and icon Umm Kulthum (Om Kalsoum) – on remastered double vinyl drop via the devoted Souma Records

  

  Umm Kulthum is an internationally famous Egyptian singer and has two of her classic works reissued by Souma Records this month. Ubiquitous across the Arab World as a singer-songwriter and film actor of the 1930s to the 1970s, she has had many accolades and tributes paid – known as ‘Kawkab al-Sharq’ (‘Star of the East’)…

  WTM

  May 21, 2023

  Middle East, Uncategorized

  Baligh Hamdy, Egypt, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Hakam Aleena El Hawa, Hany Mehanna, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Naguib Mahfouz, Om Kalsoum, Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalthoum, Souma Records, Umm Kulthum, Wa Maret El Ayam