Cairo Steps featuring  Marwa Nagy in SIWA - Elahi vocal version 
 at the Cairo Opera House Main Hall in El Moled Wal Milad Celebration on December 20th, 2015
 دار أوبرا القاهرة المسرح الكبير في احتفالية المولد والميلاد, 20 ديسمبر , 2015
Basem Darwisch (oud, band leader)
Sebastian Müller-Schrobsdorff (piano, musical director)
Wolfgang Wittemann (saxophone)
Rageed William (duduk, nay)
Stefan Hergenröder (bass guitar, Chapman-stick)
Max Klaas (percussion)
Ragy Kamal (kanoun)
Hany Alsawaf (req, tabla)
Jan Boshra Strings Ensemble: Jan Boshra (cello), Emad Azmy (violin), Shereen Azmy (violin), Amir Akhnoukh (violin), 

Guest Soloists:
Matthias Frey : Piano 
Prof. Ines Abdeldaiiem (flute)
Dr. Wessam Amin (oboe)

sound: 
Mafdy Thabet 
Ahmed Abdelkader
Andrew Dawood


Cairo Steps feat Marwa Nagy in Siwa- Elahi  مروة ناجي  LIVE Concert

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

FAV music , in my profile . my special world

“How shall I say it? Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have … And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I become confounded with his soul, and with him I pass from one condition to another.”
 —"The Kreutzer Sonata -Leo Tolstoy"

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Cairo Steps feat Marwa Nagy in Siwa- Elahi مروة ناجي LIVE Concert

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