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Between the Nile & The Ganges
Hussein El Masry
Between the Nile & The Ganges
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
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All Artists: Hussein El Masry
Title: Between the Nile & The Ganges
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Inst. Du Monde Afr.
Release Date: 11/14/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: Africa, Middle East
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 794881618422
 

CD Reviews

Gnarled, ecstatic
kit7635 | 07/28/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Egyptian classical, drawing on Indian influences (hence the title).



A single 55 minute improvisation, serious, earthy and very slow building. Production sound is technically excellent but plain and unvarnished. The absence of gimmicks and artifice breeds an absorbing intensity.



Duets between bright, sprangy sitar (Narenda Bataju) and the oud (Hussein el Masry), a string instrument with a wonderfully hollow woody resonance. The former is lyrical and exploratory, the latter foreboding and mordant.



Endless variation on the same phrase treats us to bursts of grinding staccato riffing and tremulous, quivering accents. The final twenty minutes, joined by stacks of throbbing percussion, are very loud and swing like crazy.



Serious afterglow."