Nubatones = EPICNESS ! Habeebi dahab w enas Nehas ...

at 11:00, the music is so cool, so inDaHouse !! Anybody could tell me who's behind the mix at all ?? Please let me know ! Thanks !

Amazing...wow music hassani which is the language i speak ( western Sahara and Mauritania ) thank for playing this track

ايه الجمال ده،  انا حساني ف عالم مواز 

حبيبي دهب و الناس نحاس :)

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.

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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

Taken from the album "Silt" - released 3/11/14 on Wonderwheel Recordings.

Pre-Order the album on Digi + LP, CD, Cassette (and get free, immediate download of 2 songs from the album and 3 remixes) at: http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/silt


Soukura EP

Soukura (It's Late)

Pre-Order Album

Alsarah & The Nubatones - Soukura (It's Late)

Out NOW on LP, Digital, CD and Tape! Purchase from our Bandcamp http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/silt

Wonderwheel Recordings is proud to present the debut album, Silt, from Sudanese singer Alsarah and her band the Nubatones. Called “The New Star Of Nubian Pop” by The Guardian, the album was produced solely by Alsarah who describes the sound of Silt as “East African Retro Pop” - it’s music that harkens back to the hazy sounds of 1960s and 70s Nubian music with it’s Eastern instrumentation, soaring vocal melodies, and pentatonic arrangements. 

The album has it’s musical roots in the Nubian “Songs of Return” that began to spring up after mass displacement and resettlement of hundreds of thousands in a region of lower Nubia that went under water after Egypt built Aswan High Dam to control the flooding of the Nile in 1970. The focus of these songs, both thematically and lyrically is about a return to home and the beauty of home and embodies a certain kind of saudade – a nostalgic longing for a place that no longer exists. The album encompasses Alsarah and her band’s musical curiosities in the concept of migration and Silt is their take on this mixed with the musical fusion happening in 1970s Khartoum, along with Arabic and North African influences appearing in the mix. 

Alsarah, is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever stifling regime in her native country. She abruptly moved to the US in 1994, when a brief civil war broke out in Yemen. Now residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro-pop. Working on various projects, she most recently has been working with The Nile Project and was featured on their debut release, Aswan (named 1 of the Top 5 “Must Hear” international albums by NPR). She has also collaborated with French producer Débruit on the album Aljwal, released this past November via Soundway Records UK. 

The Nubatones started out as dinner conversation between Alsarah and percussionist Rami El Aasser in his living room, digging thru archives of old music from North Africa, and reading about migration patterns in modern day Nubia, Soon the conversation opened into a musical one and spread to include master Oud player and Luthier Haig Manoukian and bass player Mawuena Kodjovi. With a collective love for pentatonic music and a common understanding of what it means to be an immigrant, the group went on to perform both nationally and internationally at prestigious venues such as The Kennedy Center, The Apollo Music Cafe, Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park, The World Music festival in Chicago, and the Festival du Mond Arab in Montreal just to name a few. 



Fugu (Shams Alhurria)

From Ethio-jazz to Nubian retro-pop, Iraqi choubi to Egyptian anti-folk, Brownbook’s playlist celebrates the artists and regions featured in our music issue.

1. Alsarah & the Nubatones – ‘Habibi Taal’
2. Souad Abdulla – ‘Yumma, al Hilou’ (Sublime Frequencies)
3. DJ Balani – ‘Bala’ (Sahel Sounds)
4. Radio Collage – ‘Disco Maghreb’ (Sublime Frequencies)
5. Noura Mint Seymali – ‘Tzenni’ (Taken from the forthcoming album of the same name, out June 20) 
6. Mdou Moctar – ‘Tahoultine’ (Sahel Sounds)
7. Aya Metwalli ft. Street Dogs – ‘Dakhlet el Sheta’
8. Zeid Hamdan – ‘Balekeh' (Acoustic)
9. L’Orchestre National de Mauritanie – ‘Senam-Mosso’ (Sahel Sounds)
10. Mulatu Astatke – ‘Gamo' (Radio Edit)


The Music Issue

written by  Cheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Imam) 
A Satirical song about  how the American president NIXON was welcomed in Egypt with all the protocol in 1974.

I  just added some percussion to Maryam s voice .
Her power and charisma revives this song in a very modern way.
I don t know if i will add anything to it ... i ll let her decide ...

MARYAM SALEH  Nixon BABA ( tribal mix )

Bombino - Mahegagh (What Shall I Do)

La Pena Cultural Center. Oct 1, 2011
Alsarah & the Nubatones Unplugged
"Alkoan Kulu Bidoor" - cover/traditional. arranged by the nubatones.
Featuring:-
Alsarah - L. Vocals
Haig Manoukian - Oud
Rami ElAasser - Percussion
Nahid Elgadi - B. Vocals

Alkoan Kulu (cover)_Unplugged

Pre-Order LP: https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/manara

Single: Ya Watan // ياوطن
Written & performed by Alsarah & the Nubatones

Alsarah & the Nubatones are:

Alsarah – Vocals, Melodies, Lyrics
Rami El Aasser – Percussion & Backing Vocals
Mawuena Kodjovi – Bass
Brandon Terzic – Oud
Nahid – Backing Vocals
w/guest musician
Yusuke Yamamoto on Keys

Manara

Alsarah & The Nubatones - Ya Watan

MUSIQUE TOUAREG
Aridel est un groupe de musique formé en 2009 par quatre musiciens originaires d’Alger revendiquant clairement l'influence du blues touareg Mélangé aux influences arabes et occidentales (jazz, rock), cela donne une musique très métissée et originale. Leur premier album "Rahet bali" sortie en 2011 est un voyage entre le nord et le sud; entre modernité et tradition.

MUSIQUE BLUES DU SAHARA ALGERIEN - MEDITATION DEPAYSEMENT

The revolution in Sudan has inspired a revolution inside of me. From my heart in the diaspora to all my people on the ground sitting in for weeks now outside the military headquarters in khartoum and all around the rest of Sudan . I love you.

Music and Lyrics by Alsarah
Arrangements and performance by Alsarah & the Nubatones
Produced by Alsarah
Recorded by Mawuena Kodjovi at ABCollective Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Kamilo Kratc at Soundworks Recording Studio

Men Ana / من انا

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