رشا شيخ الدين - أقيس محاسنك بمن

Garrib Ley by Alsarah

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. 



Nuba Noutou

قرب لي - الساره - مشروع النيل

This track is from the album Mahatet Masr and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/doniamassoud

التاجر Altajer

Dina El Wedidi Society
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The Nile Project  Allah Be2y  الله باقى "Dina El wedidi Ft Elsara"

حريِّتي

قولتوا كفاية عليَّا الحياة
أمشي	 براحتي خط المشاة
حلوة الخطاوي وساعة ما أدبّ
أبقى ف كَلَبْش فوضع انتباه
قولتوا التنفس ضروري ومهم
بس الزهور قولتوا ممنوع إنِّي أشم
مسمعش نَفَسِك؛ ده نوع من الإغراء
لَحسن هتلاقي الناس تتلم
امشي زي الألف.. بس بهمزة طايرة
وعنيكي تكون ف الأرض في وجود نظرة حايرة
غطي عنيكي أحسن تتحسدي
يا بت استحملي ومتعيطيش
خلِّي المراكب سايرة
قولتوا الضحك فُجْر؛ والفُجْر من الشيطان
والابتسام عند اللزوم فى وجود مِحْرِم عشان
العفَّة وسط الزفة ضمن صفاتك تكون
هتكوني هادية ولا هتفَضَّلي الجِنان
عيشتوني في وهم، هرتوني مسميات
خلتوني أنا الأداة لتنفيذ العادات
الوهم كان اسمه بنت؛ والحقيقة سُكات
هتعيشي هادية، ولا هتموتي زي اللِّي مات
 
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هبقى جزء من الحقيقة ..مش بس من السراب
لسة فاكرة التبريقة، والغيمة والضباب
هقول حاجات كتير قالولي شِبْه مستحيلة
من حقي أجري الصبح بدري من غير تعليقات سخيفة
فيها إيه لو راكبة عجلة ميتقالش دي بنت سافلة
ليه علشان ألبس فستان يبقى لازم فيه مناسبة
مش هموت لحد ما أفهم مفهوم الحرية
حريتي مش ملك ليك؛ حريتي حق ليَّا
يا أبويا ولَّا أخويا ولَّا جوزي.. احترمني
فكر واسأل نفسك مرة إيه تعريف العيشة الـمُرَّة
ترد تقولّي احنا شرق مش عايشين برَّة
الخصوصية برده حقي ولازم تُحتَرم
أنا مش مِلْكيَّة عامة بتزيدوا عليها الألم
سبوني أعيش حياتي وبِوشِّي الحقيقي
مش من وأنا لسَّة صغيرة بتخطَّطوا لطريقي
أنا جسمي بس ملكي مش هسمح بالتشويه
أنا لسَّة حقوقي كتير، فَليَسقط السَّفِيه
الخطوة الأولى تقول من حقي إني أختار
هختار أنا حياتي اللي هعيشها بإصرار
من حقي أكمِّل تعليمي لِحد ما أكتفي
من حقي أبان للعالم.. مش عايزة أختفي
من حقي أختار شِريك.. مش شِريك لِعيلتي
يمشي معايا فالطريق ويكمِّلِّي فمسيرتي
من حق أخويا يحترمني ميهاجمش
مش برَّا يقول حرية، وييجي عندي يقوللي: "هش"
مش هموت لحد ما أفهم مفهوم الحرية
حريتى مش مِلْك لِيك، حريتي حق ليَّا

5- Horeity-حريتي

just a small rap i wrote to this track for fun. audio may be a bit scuffed. i dont own the beat or intend to profit from it. beat is we are from the album many reasons by joseph jacobs. all rights go to the respective owners. this is just for fun.

rough lyrics

all i want to is
be my...
all i want to is
be my...
all i want to do is 
be myself
all i want to is
be my..
all i want to is
be my...
all i want to do is 
be myself

whats with this life am i right or am i wrong yo?
seeming like i been on the right track but wrong road
i fight facts and stay strong all through the songs flow
can i really be myself if its a person i dont know?
what has the world shown when i tried to blend in?
they pushed me aside as if i died, tossed to tha wind
no friends not a single soul to help me fit in
i been home swimmin in a bowl without no fins
and how long can i cruise down a road with no end?
i gotta fill up this hole up before i turn beast from man
had a peaceful plan, things dont always go the way of a god
got lost and trapped down inside the sod, i grip my leg i couldn't jump no matter how hard i tied, i wanted to run and hide but a man aint got no time to cry
you know the people pry they wanna get at your soul, expose your fears that way you cant make it home, alone on the shoal watching the waves as they crash, i had to pick up my boots and stomp through the ash...

all i want to is 
be my...
all i want to is
be my...
all i want to do is 
be myself
all i want to is
be my..
all i want to is
be my...
all i want to do is 
be myself

often wonder why, my god how am i guna survive, i watch others as they thrive, i try to dive deep, but seem my life still aint got the right jive, its in the wrong vibe, im living, i dont know how to listen, but please just one more time could your light glisten? shine bright upon the window pane for one to see, im in the wrong lane again, i beg you set me free, ive lied to you, stolen glory, ive hated others, distorted their story, my life been super stormy, a truth of hate, one not based in your flesh, if given one more chance i promise to do my best, and theres nothing else that i can say, my face is sullen battered with sadness as anger fuels my rage, i swim through blackness trapped in my own cage, ive chosen the wrong place to move, wish that i could change this path, and ill do anything, divert the crash, please lord just give me myself back

  
i dont know how
be my..
i dont know how
be my..
i dont know how to be myself
to be myself

be myself - we are - many reasons - layyzz remix

محمود درويش أحد عشر كوكبا على المشهد الأندلسي

من ألبوم : موشح ( 1996 ) .. حمزة علاء الدين 
كلمات : محى الدين شريف 

حمزة علاء الدين - الزمن

جمال بورتو - زينوبا

English below

نحن فرقة نسوية مصرية، ننتج أغاني مبنية على التجارب الحياتية التي تعيشها النساء في الواقع المصري 

لماذا البومة؟

ثقافيًا، تحمل البومة دلالات سلبية حيث يشار إليها دائمًا على أنها تجلب سوء الحظ. يُقال للنساء العابسات "ابتسمي لا تكوني مثل البومة". لكن في الواقع، البومة مخلوقًا رائعًا يتمتع بخصائص غير عادية: يمكنها إدارة رأسها والرؤية من جميع الاتجاهات، ولديها حواس قوية في الرؤية والسمع ويمكنها سماع الأصوات الضعيفة. وعادة ما تكون فريسة البومة أثقل منها. 

هكذا نأمل أن نكون: أن نسمع الأصوات الخافتة ونعبر عنها، أن نرى حتى في الأوقات المظلمة، وأن نفترس نظامًا أبويًا راسخًا أكبر منا بكثير. 

We are an Egyptian feminist band. We produce songs based on women's life experiences in the Egyptian society. 

Why ElBouma (The Owl)?
Culturally, ElBouma entails bad connotations as it’s always referred to as a creature who brings misfortune. Women who are frowning are being told “Smile, don’t be like ElBouma”. But in fact, ElBouma is an amazing creature with extraordinary characteristics: It has a 360 degree vision, It  has a very strong  hearing sense  that allows it to hear the lowest  of voices  Additionally, El bouma is able to prey on animals  that are  heavier than it. 

That’s how we aim to be: to listen to and express the vulnerable voices, to see even in the darkest times, and to prey on an established patriarchal system that is much bigger than us.

5- Horeity-حريتي

ElBouma - البومة

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