في ضل النخيل كانت ذكرياتي

انا انسان وعنواني بلاد الدهب 
نوبة ماللي سلام

فى شطك يا نيل يا حُبى وحياتى , فــ ظل النخيل كانت زكــرياتـى

انا انسان وعنوانى بلاد الدهب

Eighteen musicians from ten countries who speak nine different languages. Together they transform their variegated roots and cultures into one single language, music. This is the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (OPV). 
Official Site : http://www.orchestrapiazzavittorio.it/?lang=en

L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio - Ena Andi انا عندى ظروف

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. 



Silt

Bilad Aldahb

Ma Bine Eih - Lili Boniche

Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt The Cairo Jazz Band in 1968, he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, some of the best musicians in Egypt of that time were members of the band, such as Zaki Osman (Trumpet), Saied Salama (Tenor Sax) - Khamis El -Kholy (Piano) and Ala Mostafa (Piano)

Egypt Strut - Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz band (1970)

Fadila Dziria Cover.

Credits: GnawAmazigh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFdO6jqvYj4

Lily - Ah Ya Belaredj

Alsarah & The Nubatones - Habibi Taal | السارة - حبيبي تعال

4-SAMEA' SHAMSHA

Lyrics :
Ghatess bil naoum    diving into sleep
Ahlam ghami2a           deep dreams
Mannak chamem        u don t smell
Ri7t el 7ari2a                the scent of fire 
ichta3ala nar                the fire erupted
3ed el jiran                   At the neighbourghs
Ma hadan fa2              No one woke
Mahadan htam           no one cares

Hayde mich Jazira     this is not an Island
3aychin 3a safine      We re living on a boat
3am btighra2             that is sinkink

Balak fadi                    u have othing on your mind
ghafi bil fay                 sleeping under the shades
Mannak same3        U re not hearing 
Srkhet el khei            the scream of the brother

Saf2it Slah                      a load of weapons
mallet bawakher            filled ships
mar2et ghamzeh          a wink passed 
3a wej el tajer                 on the face  of the dealer

chorus 

hayda el za3im             this lord 
Ibn Za3im                      is a son of lord
3ayan wazir                   he assigned a minister
Ibn wazir                        son of a minister
twechwoch zghir          a little whisper     
A sofat harir                   on a velvet sofa
Hakem a cha3b           rules on the people
bala damir                    without conscience
ma bi sir                       it s not right


chorus

Jazira final

Dadou

Hamza El Din - Escalay (The Water Wheel) Konstantin Sibold Edit

original song written by Hamza El Din
published on Nonesuch / Explorer Series 1971
performed by the Kronos Quartet 1998
additional production and remastering by Konstantin Sibold 2009
contains extracts from the live DVD recording In Accord by the Kronos Quartet
published on Arthaus Musik 2001


Hamza El Din   Kronos Quartet - Escalay (The Water Wheel)

Asmahan - Ya Habibi Ta3ala Remixeny

This is our little label out of Brooklyn NYC. Homegrown music with lots of diversity for speakers EVERYWHERE! www.wonderwheelrecordings.com Alsarah and the Nubatones, Chancha Via Circuito, Nickodemus, El Búho, Thornato, Novalima, The Spy from Cairo, Gitkin, Populous & more...

Bilad Aldahb

WONDERWHEEL Recordings

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