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View Poll Results: Vote foor a FAIR album before Aug 14
Abyssinia Infinite 0 0%
Leo Kottke 0 0%
Tim Sparks 0 0%
Tourmani Diabaté 0 0%
Mayo Thompson 2 40.00%
Frantz Casseus 1 20.00%
Sir Richard Bishop 1 20.00%
Group Bombino 0 0%
Hamza El Din 1 20.00%
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Old 08-08-2012, 11:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Voting Sir Richard Bishop here, I love his work with Sun City Girls.
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This is a really difficult choice—I'm interested in almost all of these—but I guess I'm going to have to go with Hamza El Din.
Hamza El Din basically made it his mission to collate as much Nubian folk music as he could before the region was flooded for a massive dam. I believe this album represents part of that effort.


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Voting Sir Richard Bishop here, I love his work with Sun City Girls.
From my understanding the Sun City Girls were probably more out there than the tracks on Polytheistic Fragments. Many of the tracks are just Sir Richard Bishop on acoustic guitar but there is some nice playing on the there. Speaking of Sun City Girls do you have any recommendations? I've yet to track some down.
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From my understanding the Sun City Girls were probably more out there than the tracks on Polytheistic Fragments. Many of the tracks are just Sir Richard Bishop on acoustic guitar but there is some nice playing on the there. Speaking of Sun City Girls do you have any recommendations? I've yet to track some down.
Oh I know of his solo work, I already have "While My Guitar Violently Bleeds", brilliant album. As per Sun City Girls, I'd either go with Box of Chameleons or Touch of the Mystics if you're going from Sir Richard Bishop to Sun City Girls. If you're new to them as a whole, I'd go with their s/t and Horse Cock Phephner. Be warned, they do--as you said--venture pretty far out there.
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Hamza El Din basically made it his mission to collate as much Nubian folk music as he could before the region was flooded for a massive dam. I believe this album represents part of that effort.
Interesting though that the Oud is not a traditional Nubian instrument and for many it was their first exposure to it.

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Born in Toskha, Nubia, in Egypt, Mr. El Din began playing oud while studying engineering at the University of Cairo. He also studied at the King Fouad Institute of Middle Eastern Music. Learning of plans to build the Aswan Dam, he quit his engineering job in Cairo and set off to preserve Nubian music before the people were dispersed. With his oud, an instrument unknown in Nubia, he traveled from village to village by donkey, gathering songs. He was playing in traditional Arabic style; it wasn't until his music acquired a distinctly Nubian flavor that it caught on.

"One day I felt the oud had a Nubian accent,'' Mr. El Din told The Chronicle in 1995. "I played for people in my village and they were mesmerized. I knew I had something.''
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