Learn Your Language Classical Arabic in Two Weeks, Background Music Hamza El Din
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
'But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone of all the languages unites the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge' (Claude...
undomondo (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A collaboration between Ozgur Uckan and me, in honour of Claude Lévi-Strauss who passed away recently aged 101. Features music from Brasil, Angola, Hawaii, Egypt & Cuba, more or less around the tropics, and almost exclusively sad.
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to Hamza el Din performed at Ash Grove on January 16, 1970
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Grammy Award winner Herbie Hancock, rock superstar Sir Elton John, classical violinist Ida Haendel and the late father of modern Nubian music Hamza el Din are featured in 30- and 60-second television and radio PSAs that NAB will distribute this week to stations nationwide. The PSAs invite professional and amateur musicians around the world to "use the universal language of music to diminish hatred,...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to Hamza el Din performed at Ash Grove on January 17, 1970
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of its historic 1978 concerts in Egypt, the Grateful Dead's two-CD/one-DVD Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 documents the legendary performances in front of the pyramids at Giza. The CDs are compiled from performances recorded on September 15th and 16th, with the DVD taken from the September 16th show, during which there was a lunar eclipse...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Its unthinkable now. A crusty old rock band packing up family and crew to play a series of concerts at the Giza Necropolis. To kick out the jams at the last wonder of the ancient world. But in September 1978, that’s just what the Grateful Dead did. To bankroll the trip, the band planned on releasing [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Available for Uplink On September 19 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy Award Winner Herbie Hancock, rock superstar Sir Elton John, classical violinist Ida Haendel and the late father of modern Nubian music, Hamza el Din are featured in 30 and 60 second television and radio public service announcements (PSAs) to promote The 7th Annual Daniel Pearl World...
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