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Title: Authenic rural Egyptian grooves
Review: The cd is about the closest that Westeners minus the plane tripe will get to rural Egyptian music. Most of the songs comes from parts of extreme southern Egypt[that is Luxor and Aswan] but some tracks are a little further north in places like Qena which border Middle Egypt. The previous reviewers have unfairly branded this as unauthenic. Such criticism does not suprise be due to lack of understanding or knowledge that some have of rural Egypt. I would argue that this cd is more Egyptian than most sha'abi due to the lack of western influence.Anybody that is into anthropology or field recordings is for a musical treat. All the music is supervised by the late Nubian ethnomusicology/oud player,Hamaza el Din. The only thing missing from a otherwise wonderful cd is funeral laments from Luxor and fallahin music from the Delta. Buy this Cd if you are into rural Egyptian music or a anthropology buff.
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