That’s so well put together, that’s so beautiful. 👏🏾👍🏾🌅🐍👁️

Written specifically as a response to the upcoming novel "Home is Not a Country", by Safia Elhillo, this song is a celebration of nostalgia and diaspora. In the novel the lead character, Nima, has a special love for old Egyptian movies which connect her to a past she doesn't know or understand fully. I imagined this song to be coming out of a scene in old Cairo at a cabaret, performed by a Nubian singer who is the first in her family to be born in the big city after the high dam was built. She is displaced and experiences a feeling of diaspora within her country. She is torn between the past world of her family and their stories of home and her new home in the cosmopolitan center that is Cairo. She feels the longing yet doesn't know what it is she exactly longs for because all she knows are bits of stories. I wanted to create a song that reflected that sentiment. So I went to Cairo and produced this song there with some of my favorite musicians out there in order to fully capture the atmosphere I was seeking.

Buy the song - https://alsarah.bandcamp.com/track/yo...​

Buy the book - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...​

Song Title: Your love is Home / حبك وطن

Lead Vocals, Lyrics and Melody: Alsarah

Qanoon + Keys: Fady Badr

Accordion: Wael ElSayed

Bass: Ahmed Omar

Percussion: Rami ElAasser 

Backing Vocals: Nahid

Produced: Alsarah

Recording Engineer: Muhammed Hassan El Bossiley at 14th st Maadi, Cairo

Mixing and Mastering Engineering: Kamilo Kratc at Soundworks Recording Studios, Queens NY


من طمي النيل معجون بهواك اه اه

لابس الصوميت معقود بحجاب اه اه 

حبك بلاد بدون حدود اه اه 

مكان ميعادنا بين الصخور اه اه

والريح يغني للنخيل اه اه

يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير 


تحت الشباك مريت يا فلان اه اه

وانا خلف الشيش عيوني متابعاك اه اه

شايل معاك الاماني والآمال اه اه

ماشي سواح ولا العوده ما لها ميعاد؟ 


زي البحر عمق الآهات اه اه 

وفي المنام اسمك يقال آه آه 

يتردد بين الأمواج اه اه 

والحور يغني عن الفراق اه اه 


من طمي النيل النيل النيل 


حبك بلاد بدون حدود اه اه 

مكان ميعادنا بين الصخور اه اه 

والريح يغني للنخيل اه اه 

والحور يغني عن الفراق 

يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير اه اه 

يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير اه آه 

يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير آه آه 

ليه الفراق مكتوب مصير 

A rough translation-


From the silt of the Nile you are molded , I love you /long for you

Wearing someet knotted w a protection amulet 

Your love is a country with no borders 

Our meeting place between the boulders

And the wind sings to the palm trees, 

the day of parting is written destiney 


Under the window, you passed ya fulan*

And I'm behind the shutters my eyes following you 

Carrying with you hopes and dreams

are you going a tourist or does the return have no date?


Like the sea so is the depth of my wails 

And in slumber your name is called, echoing between the waves 

And the sirens sing about the parting 


From the silt of the Nile the Nile the Nile 


Your love is a country with no borders 

Our meeting place between the boulders 

And the wind sings to the palm trees

And the sirens sing about the parting 

The day of parting is written destiny 

The day of parting is written destiny

The day of parting is written destiny 

Why is the parting written destiny 


photo by Wael Gzoly. // Video and Graphics by Rana Jubara

حبك وطن // Your love is home

Boddhi Satva (Ancestral Soul Remix) serves yet another legendary Afro-House Remix!! A second time collaboration with Alsarah, (check out Soukura Remixed out via Wonderwheel Recordings) this remix celebrates the original composition while adding Boddhi's special touch that takes the feeling of nostalgia, and roots to the dance floor.

You can buy the song here - https://alsarah.bandcamp.com/track/yo...​

Also follow @alsarah5000 for some exciting news about a remix challenge!


About the Original Song:-

Written specifically as a response to the upcoming novel "Home is Not a Country", by Safia Elhillo (our March 2 via PenguinRandomHouse), this song is a celebration of nostalgia and diaspora. In the novel the lead character Nima, a Sudanese girl raised in the USA by her widowed mother, has a special love for old Egyptian movies which connect her to a past she doesn't know or understand fully. Rather than re-narrate the character's story, I chose to imagine a parallel world and character to it that echos the same feelings. In doing so I hope to connect the common thread of the feelings of diaspora and longing regardless of the physical location.

I imagined this song to be coming out of a scene in old Egyptian movie. It's the late 1970s Cairo at a typical local cabaret/club from that era. I imagined a Nubian singer who is the first in her family to be born in the big city after the high dam was built. She...  more
lyrics
من طمي النيل معجون بهواك اه اه
لابس الصوميت معقود بحجاب اه اه
حبك بلاد بدون حدود اه اه
مكان ميعادنا بين الصخور اه اه
والريح يغني للنخيل اه اه
يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير

تحت الشباك مريت يا فلان اه اه
وانا خلف الشيش عيوني متابعاك اه اه
شايل معاك الاماني والآمال اه اه
ماشي سواح ولا العوده ما لها ميعاد؟

زي البحر عمق الآهات اه اه
وفي المنام اسمك يقال آه آه
يتردد بين الأمواج اه اه
والحور يغني عن الفراق اه اه

من طمي النيل النيل النيل

حبك بلاد بدون حدود اه اه
مكان ميعادنا بين الصخور اه اه
والريح يغني للنخيل اه اه
والحور يغني عن الفراق
يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير اه اه
يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير اه آه
يوم الفراق مكتوب مصير آه آه
ليه الفراق مكتوب مصير

A rough translation-

From the silt of the Nile you are molded , I love you /long for you
Wearing someet* knotted w a protection amulet
Your love is a country with no borders
Our meeting place between the boulders
And the wind sings to the palm trees,
the day of parting is written destiny

Under the window, you passed ya fulan**
And I'm behind the shutters my eyes following you
Carrying with you hopes and dreams
are you going a tourist or does the return have no date?

Like the sea so is the depth of my wails
And in slumber your name is called, echoing between the waves
And the sirens sing about the parting

From the silt of the Nile the Nile the Nile

Your love is a country with no borders
Our meeting place between the boulders
And the wind sings to the palm trees
And the sirens sing about the parting
The day of parting is written destiny
The day of parting is written destiny
The day of parting is written destiny
Why is the parting written destiny
credits
released March 12, 2021
Written/Composed/Performed by: Alsarah
Remixed by: Boddhi Satva (Ancestral Soul Remix)
Qanoon + Keys: Fady Badr
Accordion: Wael Elsayed
Bass: Ahmed Omar
Percussion: Rami ElAasser
Backing Vocals: Nahid
Produced: Alsarah
Recording Engineer: Muhammed Hassan El Bossiley at 14th st Maadi, Cairo
Mixing and Mastering Engineering: Kamilo Kratc at Soundworks Recording Studios, Queens NY

Photo by: Wael Gzoly
Artwork by: Rana Jubara

حبك وطن // Your love is home (Boddhi Satva Ancestral Soul Remix)

Alsarah, Nahid - Habibi Safr Mini | السارة - حبيبي سافر مني

Let*  Boogy - DANCE MUSIK

لبيك يا كليم القروح 
يا سر في أتم الوضوح
لبلاب في صريف 
موردة من نزيف
وهلال من أهل

شفناك في غيابك وهل
هل غاب من ظهر واكتمل
لبلاب في صريف
موردة من نزيف
وهلال من أهل

الطير في السما والنجوم
والكون والسديم الرؤوم
معقود الخيال
وشعوب الجبال في روحك تروح

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ياذات في مهب الوجود
يا كل يا وحيد يا ولود
نهديك السلام
حيرة واحترام
ونغريك الخلود

كلمات نجلاء التوم . 
MANHA DE CARNAVAL MELODY
/غناء ميادة /تنفيذ أبراهيم بن البادية-

أورفيوس الأسود./ ميادة محمد الحسن. كلمات نجلاء التوم- manha de carnaval melody

Génération Taragalte  1

02 Samaar Alloun

القمر بيضوى - جمال بورتو

Tuareg music
Tuareg people people live the Sahara Desert in North Africa and the desert speaks Tamazight language
This suffered a lot of people marginalized by colonialism and digest rights by governments under which they live
He scattered among several countries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya Mali, Niger, Mauritania

حبك وطن // Your love is home (Boddhi Satva Ancestral Soul Remix)

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