#4202: The Egyptian Project
Listen to music inspired by contemporary Egypt for this New Sounds with works from Cypress Hill with Sadat & 50, the musical collective One Beat, and the Nile Project.
Listen to music from the The Nile Project – an activist group of musicians aiming to protect the Nile River who represent Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, all of the 11 countries through which the Nile River flows. They came together in the Ugandan town of Jinja, combining harps, lyres, and voices in a blend African and Arabic scales, Ethio-jazz and taqsim (instrumental improvisation).
Then, the multi-platinum hip hop band Cypress Hill collaborates with a group of Egyptian street musicians from Cairo, known as Sadat & 50, in a tune called “Band of Gypsies” with an electric guitar riff that drifts around a Near Eastern mode. Ethio-jazzer Mulatu Astatke teams up with UK’s musician collective known as the Heliocentrics the London-based psychedelic jazz band who revolve just as much around Sun Ra as James Brown, Afro and Eastern sounds.
Plus, from The Egyptian Project, headed by producer French producer Jérôme Ettinger,hear a mix of electronic, acoustic and Egyptian traditional music. There’s also electro- Chaabi, something like Egyptian music meets techno punk, from a mixtape by producers Joep Schmitz and Yannick Verhoeven, aka Cairo Liberation Front. Hear music from the project known as One Beat, featuring musicians from five continents, along with the group Alif, who are musicians are from Egypt and Lebanon, and more. -Caryn Havlik
Program #4202: The Egyptian Project (First aired 2/07/2019)
ARTIST: Cypress Hill ft. Sadat & 50
WORK: Band Of Gypsies CLEAN [1:00]
RECORDING: Elephants on Acid
SOURCE: BMG
INFO: cypresshill.lnk.to/ElephantsOnAcid
ARTIST: Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
WORK: Blue Nile [3:13]
RECORDING: Inspiration Information
SOURCE: Strut 040
INFO: strut-records.com
ARTIST: OneBeat
WORK: Wuoth (Superfly in Cairo) [4:04]
RECORDING: OneBeat Mixtape 2017
SOURCE/INFO: fsnrecords.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Cairo Liberation Front [5:00]
WORK: Electro Cha3bi (mixtape excerpts)
RECORDING: Electro Cha3bi mixtape
SOURCE/INFO: https://soundcloud.com/cairo-labelration-front
ARTIST: Cypress Hill ft. Sadat & 50
WORK: Band Of Gypsies CLEAN [4:09]
RECORDING: Elephants on Acid
SOURCE: BMG
INFO: cypresshill.lnk.to/ElephantsOnAcid
ARTIST: Musicians of the Nile
WORK: Salamat [6:03]
RECORDING: Charcoal Gypsies
SOURCE: Buda Musique 3758744
INFO:budamusique.com
ARTIST: Alif
WORK: I tiraf (Confession) [4:56]
RECORDING: Aynama-Rtama
SOURCE/INFO: alifmusic.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Egyptian Project
WORK: Soufi [3:49]
RECORDING: Ya Amar
SOURCE: Six Degrees Records
INFO: sixdegreesrecords.com
ARTIST: The Nile Project
WORK: Inganji [7:57]
RECORDING: Jinja
SOURCE: The Nile Project/Zambaleta
INFO: nileproject.org
ARTIST: Jerusalem In My Heart
WORK: Wa Ta atalat Loughat Al Kalam, Part 3, excerpt [2:00]
RECORDING: Daqa’iq Tudaiq
SOURCE: Constellation Records
INFO: cstrecords.com
