Elahi (feat. Ali El Helbawy) - Diwan Cafe
Listen to the music: glm.lnk.to/Elahi
https://play.anghami.com/artist/7774211?fbclid=IwAR0EUXPC-F3YGd6ogsMBnfV44cAe3-mLxOHwaUJTrYrZuHJcALG2p6StsCs
The idea of Diwan Cafe : 
كايرو ستيبس Cairo Steps band members in Germany and Egypt could not see each other during the lockdown and could only meet virtually ...
Therefore they opened a virtual cafe where they meet every Friday to exchange ideas, thoughts and news between the two countries. At the end of the meeting, one of the soloists played music alone on his instrument...
These recordings were so beautiful and served as documentation of the Corona time for the band. This gave Basem Darwisch the idea to publish these solo moments. They are solo instrument performances with a one take one-time recording without any improvements, so that it remains authentic...
Diwan Cafe is meant to inspire the audience to think and meditate. 
Listen to the music: glm.lnk.to/Elahi
Cover Design by Ossama Boshra 
Sound Eng.  Bassem Sobhy

Diwan Cafe

02-10-2020

Diwan Cafe ft. ALI EL HELBAWY   علي الهلباوي-  الهي

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

Diwan Cafe ft. ALI EL HELBAWY علي الهلباوي- الهي

Cairo Steps كايرو ستيبس