BALIGH HAMDI - Modal Instrumental Pop Of 1970s Egypt 2LP spoken word David J and Daniel Ash

David J and Daniel Ash take turns singing and frequently harmonize or play off each other

“All Over the World” is one of their most ambitious compositions: listen to the first minute and then skip to the last minute and wonder how you got there (this is something you can’t do for any of the songs off Surfer Rosa and Doolittle)

that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born

as they construct an impenetrable mechanized swarm of liquefying industrial hallucinations and swirling dissonance that eradicates the listener from their corporeal and terrestrial self to cast them at the edge of a light-devouring void

It’s heavier at times and groovier at others

BALIGH HAMDI - Modal Instrumental Pop Of 1970s Egypt 2LP spoken word David J and Daniel AshIncludes extensive liner notes by Hisham Mayet with rare photographs. Double vinyl housed in tip on gatefold jackets. Modal instrumental tracks from Baligh Hamdi one of the most important Arabic composers of the 20th Century (writing for legends Umm Kalthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Sabah, Warda, and many others). Features his legendary group the Diamond Orchestra with Omar Khorshid on guitar, Magdi al Husseini on organ, Samir Sourour on saxophone, and