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German Jazz Award 2018 for the Album Flying Carpet together with Quadro Nuevo
Building Bridges between cultures and to send an indirect message to the audience, creating an positive image about the Egyptian Culture Heritage was the reason why Basem Darwisch founded the German/Egyptian Band Cairo Steps in 2003 .
Cairo Steps merges and combines traditional Egyptian and oriental grooves with modern jazz and classics , using vocal inserts with old Arabic poems . it is a mix between improvisation, classical music and contemporary sounds. The music is influenced by spiritual ethnic music as well as European music traditions and alternates between strong unison rhythms, virtuoso solos and meditative soundscapes. The result is a unique music style and an exciting blend of various cultures
Basem could manage to make Cairo Steps plays the role of the umbrella that has all of the different musical genres and experiences merged together all the way from spiritual chants to modern classics with their own flavor and to pursues the vision of crossing cultural, political and religious borders and building bridges between the occident and the orient. Basem Darwisch’s Vision is to present the audience with a tense spiritual musical experience as language that can help them transcend over their earthly matters and to use the concert to create an atmosphere of tolerance and acceptance of other and different cultures advocating the motto “Music is the bonding force” 
His Vision is also to leave an positive impression about the Egyptian culture heritage through short speeches , visuals and introductions during Cairo Steps concerts in Europe in very well known opera houses and theaters e.g. : Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Prinzregententheater München, Theaterhaus Stuttgart  , Kuwait , Abou Dhabi and Cairo Opera House etc.
discography:
2017 „Flying Carpet“ – Cairo Steps & Quadro Nuevo (album)
2017 „Gnossienne No. 1“ feat. Sheikh Ehab Younis (single)
2014 „Arabiskan“ (album)
2004 „Oud Lounge“ (album)
contact : management@cairosteps.com
https://www.facebook.com/cairosteps/
videography:
2017/04 „Ikarus’ Dream“ - Cairo Steps & Quadro Nuevo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DTbh_wSys
2017/03 „Flying Carpet“ - Cairo Steps & Quadro Nuevo https://youtu.be/Va8WqXDm7Mo
2017/01 „Gnossienne No. 1“ – Cairo Steps feat. Sheikh Ehab Younis (more than 2,1 Mio. facebook views and 500.000 youtube views) https://youtu.be/FOpblB88D18
2015/02 „Sultan“ – Cairo Steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0Dnz5fhVY

productions:
2015/12 Mohamed Mounir - „Ana Mennek Etaalemt“ 
(#1 Egypt single charts, more than 6 Mio. youtube views) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2WamOKFaCo

https://www.youtube.com/c/CairoStepsofficial
https://vimeo.com/cairosteps

All those years living the life of someone I didn't even know I can't remember the man I wanted to be

Adham Seliman (Arabic: أدهم سليمان), is an Egyptian singer and composer was born September 21, 1986, in  Assiut, he graduated from the Faculty of Computing and Information Delta University, he started his career at the age of fifteen-year at  preparatory School  in Mansoura at school concerts through high school concerts to university , then he starts his professional interest at university as a singer and composer, at this time he had worked with production specialist companies in Egyptian and the Arabian gulf markets, then he has his own songs starting from the university stage untill now.
In recognition of the role of the independent and different art as an effective tool to express, after the revolution of January he established a band "5tm el neser" which made several songs the most important song is “3tma” that discussed the political situation at the time until the separation of the band.
Then he started to make his own songs like “al tayeh, qais, 7ayah, o8nya and 3ala baba al naby” till the song of “esmy” That was the beginning of the actual acquaintance between him and his fans followed by “el mqam, al mraya, al anbya, msh ndman and al 3ashkeen” then clip of “al mraya” that has been shown on mazzika channel.
He has been honored in many music festivals all over the country, universities and set up a number of successful concerts in important places such as “sa2yt al sawy”

Contemporary music explorer. Oud virtuoso. Citizen of the world.

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