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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. 



Habibi Taal

غناء : هاني آبو هاشم - أحمد الهاشمي - أحمد القاضي
كلمات : تراث صوفي
ألحان : هاني ابو هاشم
توزيع : محمد العشي
هندسة صوتية وديجيتال ماستر : منتصر عامر
إدارة انتاج : كوبال الشاذلي

عيني | My Eye - فريق همة

Prelude and Fugue in F Minor - J.S. Bach
Sonata in F Major 1st Movement - J. Haydn
Transcendental Etude No. 8 - F. Liszt

Hanford Lam - 3MBS The Talent

@yungestbae & @flamingosis

Thanks for 10k followers on Soundcloud. 
This compilation features 17 exclusive tracks from various artists.

Yung Bae x Flamingosis - Cookout on Cloud 9 
youtube.com/watch?v=GnyaU46c4RQ

Mastered: Adam Rich 
Art Work: Andrew Walker

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Yung Bae x Flamingosis - Cookout On Cloud 9

شعر رابعه العدويه فى العشق الالهى

عرفت الهوى _ ابن عربى

Cairo to Alexandria - القاهرة إلى الإسكندرية

دنيا مسعود-يالالالى

لاموني الي غارو مني وقالولي اش عجبك فيها 
جاوبت اللي جهلو فني خدوا عيني شوفو بيها 

هاد الطفله الي غرتو منها وحبيتوني باش ننساها مانقدرشي نبعد عنها وانا كالحوته في ماها 
عاشق ومغروم في فنها حياتي كله وهبتو ليها 

لاموني الي غارو مني وقالولي اش عجبك فيها 

انا في عينيها ادم وهي في عينيا حواء 
قالولي علاش تعشق خادم قولتلهم افديه من جوا 
سمرا وغنا عليها العالم والعالم كله شاهييها 

يا ناس اش تحبو مني وغرته من السر الرباني فنيه وعشقت في فني وانا الي عاششقها اني 
طول حياتي عليها نغني وشعري وفني كله ليها 

Cairo to Alexandria - القاهرة إلى الإسكندرية

Nahed Elrayes