Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt
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Music Reviews of Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt
Music Review: good, mostly
Rating: 4 Stars
Some excellent music - the first six tracks are great. I would almost give this five stars - probably 4 1/2 overall - but it starts repeating artists after the first six tracks. We have Amr Diab, Abgham, and the rather obscure Nagat el Saghira all TWICE. There should never be the same artists twice on a rough guide. It's not as if there's a lack of music in Egypt. Besides, there are ommissions; virtually no folk, Arabic classical or Sufi music, and as others have pointed out, no Umm Kalthoum, though I've never heard anything by her. However, Nubian music is represented excellently by good tracks from Ali Hassan Kuban, Mahmoud Fadl and the Cairo Opera orchestra, and Hamza el Din. There's also quite a lot of old music from former stars such as Abdel Hlim Hafez, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, and Warda (and Nagat el Saghira, twice, on slightly old recordings.) And there's alot of pop music, most of which is still pretty traditional.
The liner notes are not very helpful or extensive, and the dicography might as well not be there - little of the music is from accesible albums. I don't know WHERE it's from - a lot of tracks are, apparently, from "album unknown."
But it's good. If you like Arabic music, or music in general, it's very much recomended.
Music Review: Egyptian Music CD
Rating: 4 Stars
After my visit to Egypt, I wanted a musical reminder of the amazing time time there. The Rough Guide to Egyptian Music turned out to be just the thing. Royal CloydMusic Review: music of egypt...and no umm kulthum?
Rating: 3 Stars
How can you make a CD of Egyptian music and leave off the most listened to singer in Egypt: Umm Kulthum?