Hamza El Din
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Born on 10th July 1929 in the Egyptian village of Toshka, near Wadi Halfa, he originally trained to be an electrical engineer. El Din changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, continuing his studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His performances attracted the attention of the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan in the 1960s, which led to a recording contract and to his eventual emigration to the United States. Like much of Egyptian Nubia, his home village of Toshka was flooded due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, creating in El Din a drive to preserve and promote his culture.
His 1968 recording Escalay: the Water Wheel was claimed as an influence by some American minimalist composers, such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley. He performed with the Kronos Quartet.
El Din held a number of teaching positions in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. He died on 22nd May 2006 at the age of seventy-six, after complications following surgery for a gallbladder infection at a hospital in Berkeley, California. He is survived by his wife, Nabra.
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Top Albums
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Escalay (The Water Wheel)
8,671 listeners3 tracks
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A Wish
5,197 listeners7 tracks
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Music Of Nubia
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Eclipse
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Yavuz_S_Selim
good stuff
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lll__
good stuff
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Bo2sBlackFlame
(Y)
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NedZarathoustra
Waw!
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DanoSediq
amazing
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lodyforyou
madness!
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NINlife
this guy means serious business
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MachinesAreUs
as darthsketch put it: beautiful.
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darthsketch
beautiful. a treasure.
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Adjar-one
(L)
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EchEm
All what you expect from an instrument and Rebuffed, In its simplest possible.
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preritjain
soothing
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Neueklick
@koolsamarkand: http://j.mp/aerCz6
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HADOPIRE
Music of Nubia is a great album
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Texho_Ded
PM me your MSN or IQC uin, i`ll give some links
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koolsamarkand
Hello, looking for a download of some of this fantastic music. Anyone got a link?
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raef_ismail
Hamza here is playing the music of " Mohamed Abd ElWahab " from "om Kolthoum's " song " Fakarouni" , which means : they reminded me , and from which Hamza called this track " I remember "
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B0di
You didn't make that point clear in the first post.... informally Asian mean "Mongolian" people from East and Southeast Asia..I'm Nubian so I know what I'm talking about.. Culturally speaking Nubians are Arabs. Like most of the Arab countries that had it's own languages and cultures but in the end they formed a mix between them and the Arabic culture... And why not 100% cause there are Nubian tribes in chad and the surrounding areas
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hmm.. Syria is in southwest Asia not in the Caucasus. There's no "Asian race" it's the most phenotypically diverse continent on the planet (no surprise being the largest by far), There are Caucasoid Asians like in Saudia and Iran, There are East Asians there are even Black Asian people like the Andaman Islanders and Aborigine Southeast Asian peoples like the Aeta in the Philipines and the Mani of Thailand. And 90%? why not 100% at that? It is an unspoken scientific fact that most of the north Sudanese are Arabized Nubians, they don't see themselves as Nubians, does that make em 90% Nubian?
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B0di
Commenting on the post below me,... 90% of the Nubians are Arabs!! ( most of them are concentrated in Egypt and Sudan) they speak Arabic beside their own Nubian language,, You were right about the Language point,,, but the Syrians became suddenly Asian?!! I know it's in Asia but they are of Caucasian ethnicity and Arabic culture!
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