Release Date: 04 May 2009
Label: 30IPS
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001057038
Genres: World Music
Description
Acclaimed veteran Egyptian musicians El Tanbura celebrate their 20th anniversary with songs from old-time cafes and hashish dens along the path of the Suez Canal.
El Tanbura is a collective of veteran Egyptian master musicians, singers, fishermen and Sufi philosophers. Custodians to some of Egypt's oldest folk melodies at their home in Port Said (the Mediterranean gateway to the Suez Canal), the band's music is driven by the seductive call of the Simsimiyya - an ancient lyre dating back to the times of the Pharaohs, which according to legend, is said to enchant those who hear her strings.
'Friends of Bamboute' is the long-awaited follow up to 2006's 'Between the Desert and the Sea'. Recorded in Cairo and Port Said, the disc recounts both tales of the 19th century Bambutiyya merchants who frequented the old-time cafes and hashish dens along the path of Suez Canal, and devotional Sufi songs from the Egyptian delta.
UK Dates 2009:
4 June Salisbury Festival
5 June Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford
6 June FEAST, Manchester
7 June St George's, Bristol
9 June Norwich Arts Centre
11 June Union Chapel, London
Tracks: Ghosen el Habib / Friends of Bamboute / Noh el Hamam / Khaly Anka al Yhom / Ayh el Amal Ya Ahmed / Lally / Heela Hella / Afra / Badr Arid / El Madad
Tracklisting
Tashi Lhunpo Monks
Tashi Lhunpo Monks
Rango
El Tanbura
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Rango
Tashi Lhunpo Monks
Nuba Nour
Toumani Diabate
Guts
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Lolita
Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers
Lux Musicae London
Various Artists
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt
