LIVE Concert at Cairo Opera House 20-12-2015
Basem Darwisch  Oud  - Sebastian Müller-Schrobsforff  Piano
Rageed William   Duduk  - Max Klaas  Percussions 
Wolfgang Wittemann  Saxophone  - Stefan Hergenröder Bass
https://youtu.be/PlN6CKaW7vQ?list=PL6KaYDsPmLXKytatH4SO0jiXxFqPQRR8_

Cairo Steps feat Gnossienne  Erik Satie LIVE

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

ديني لِنَفسي ودين الناسِ للناسِ

A tribute, in deep honour and respect,
        to this BRAVE woman 🙏✨🌿✨🙏

Malak al-Shehri was arrested in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 
for - NOT - wearing hijab...after posting the photo above, on Twitter in 2016...

    You may CRY 😪 but never - EVER - be SILENT 🤐
   
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” 
― Plato.

I believe in the universal language and force in music. 
― Sigrid Moldestad, a norwegian folksinger/songwriter

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Melancholy is like wandering on the bottom
of a huge secret.
― Kari Bremnes, a norwegian singer/

Secrets
I do believe people should have more secrets as to another ... We should keep our mouth shut; 
and rather visit «the strawberry Fields» 
in stead of speaking them to death.  
― Kari Bremnes

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One should have lived before in life, and yet,
one should live now 🧐

Parallelity
The novelist and the historian had equally important roles to play in understanding our past, but they travelled on separate roads toward the truth.

The heart
«Thou customs and ways of living changes, 
as times leaps, and human belief changes,
thinking otherwise on many issues... 
the human HEART will never ever change.
― Sigrid Undset, a Norwegian Nobel lauriat and author. 
The closing words, from «King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table»

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In Norwegian:

Ein skulle ha levd før, og ein skulle ha levd no🧐
Ukjend

￼Melankoli er som å gå på bunnen av en stor hemmelighet.
― Kari Bremnes, songskrivar og musikar

Eg trur veldig på musikkens universelle språk og kraft
― Sigrid Moldestad, songskrivar og folkemusikar

Musikk gjev ei sjel til universet, 
vengjer til sinnet, fly til fantasien og liv til alt."
― Plato.

Hjarta
«Ti sed og skikk forandres meget, alt som tidene lider, og menneskenes tro forandres og de tenker annerledes om mange ting. Men menneskenes HJARTE forandres aldeles intet i alle dage.»

(Sitat, avsluttingsorda i «Kong Artur og ridderne av det runde bord»)
― Sigrid Undset, forfattar

Om Kristin Lavransdatter
“Sigrid Undset skildret ikke Kristin Lavransdatter, men Sigrid Ingvalddatter. Hennes middelalderske Gudbrandsdal var et 1900-talls Frogner i forkledning. Det var nedlatende ment. Men det er vanskelig å komme unna at det uansett nødvendigvis er vår egen tids briller vi ser når vi fascinert forsøker å kikke under historiens skjørtekanter.” 
― Georg Johannesen, forfattar/professor/kritikar

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Hemmeligheter

Jeg synes at mennesker skulle ha flere hemmeligheter for hverandre ... Vi skulle holde mer kjeft og heller gå til jordbærstedene i stedet for å snakke dem ihjel.

Kari Bremnes, f 1956,visesanger/musiker/låtskriver

Visste du at: 
Bremnes er kanskje mest kjent for sin norske versjon av Cohen’s «Everybody knows»
(«Alle vet jo det»). 
Hun fikk sitt store gjennombrudd i 1986 med albumet «Mitt ville hjerte». Siden har hun mottatt en rekke priser og etablert seg som en av landets fremste kvinnelige sangere, tekstforfattere og melodiskapere.

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- Dersom en investeringsidé ikke kan bli forklart på tre setninger, er det ikke en god investering. Kan du ikke det, så finn noe annet.
                                 Julian Robertson, Investor
                             Founder of Tiger Management


Ref. Andreas Halvorsen ,Viking Global,              Greenwich,Connecticut.

Cairo Steps feat Gnossienne Erik Satie LIVE

Cairo Steps كايرو ستيبس