I like to explore local music and always rejoice when I find some gems. I even started to give away my favourite local records as present to friends and more often then not recipients are pleasantly surprised.
Why then not trying to share my favourite records with the blog readers as well and hopefully widen the audience for these works? Records might be new or old, classic, rock, world or jazz, ... what really matters is that they are on sale in Egypt and ... that I like them.
First of the series is HAZEM SHAHEEN´s "Things that I miss", a wonderful instrumental work from this great oud player from Alexandria that came out last year under the Lebanese label Incognito. Shaheen is accompanied by Hany Bdeir on oriental percussions, Miles Jay on double bass and Nawar Abbessi on piano. The atmospheres evoked by this record are just magic.
You can read a better review than any I could possibly write and listen to samples by clicking here.
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