Mahmoud Fadl

Mahmoud Fadl
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Styles: Traditional Middle Eastern Folk, Middle Eastern Pop, Worldbeat
Biography: Born in 1955, Mahmoud Fadl began his musical career not playing, but as a limbo dancer in Egypt at wedding celebrations -- both Egyptian and Nubian -- the culture that was his, but which had been lost as families were evacuated for the building of dams. His Nubian ancestry was important, coming from ...Read full biography
Love Letter from King Tut-Ank-Amen
Released: 2000
Label: Piranha
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There are concept albums and there are albums that spring from a concept. For Nubian percussionist Mahmoud Fadl, the inspiration for this disc rested with a love letter written in 1929 by the Cuban writer ...Read full review
The Drummers of the Nile in Town: Cairosonic
Released: 2004
Label: Piranha
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The Drummers of the Nile in Town: Cairosonic is master drummer Mahmoud Fadl's trip back to the Cairo of his youth, and in part his quest to find the brass bands he remember from that time, although the ...Read full review
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