Hamza El Din - Live At The Ansaaru Allah Community In America flac album

On June 26, Hamza El Din graced the Ansaar Village of Brooklyn, New York, with breathtaking selections of Nubian music. Accompanying himself on the oud and tar, (traditional Nubian instruments), the master transported his audience to Nuba, the land once inhabited by the original descendants of the Prophet Noah, (the Cushites, Shemites and Hamites) the direct line of Adam.

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The pioneering Sudanese musician, Hamza el Din, was born in 1929 in Toskha, Nubia. In 1971, he released the album Escalay: The Water Wheel, which to this day remains legendary among musicians and connoisseurs. By this point in his career, Hamza was essentially creating a new original form of music, a sort of Nubian-Arabic fusion that retained the traditions of his homeland, but was also influenced by his Western conservatory training. This remarkable live performance at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles captures Hamza el Din at this point in time, performing before an intimate and appreciative audience.

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Hamza El Din is considered the father of modern Nubian music. He was born in Toshka, Nubia, Egypt. Hamza studied at King Fouad University (now the University of Cairo), then enrolled in the Popular University and at Ibrahim Shafiq's Institute of Music (Shafiq was renowned as a master of Arabian music and of the Muwashshah rhyme forms). Following graduation, he continued his studies at the King Fouad Institute for Middle Eastern Music, mastering the oud. Later, with an Italian government grant, he studied Western music and classical guitar at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

El Din was originally trained to be an engineer, but changed direction and enrolled in the Middle Eastern School of Music, where he began to compose his own songs. On a fellowship to study Western classical music in Rome, he met American Gino Foreman, who exposed Hamza's work to Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. This resulted in a contract with Vanguard. EclipseIn the second half of the 1960s, El Din spent much of his time in America, living in guitarist Sandy Bull's apartment for a while. Taking a series of teaching positions in various American locations, he also found time to record a Nonesuch album in 1968, Escalay, that is considered one of the best documents of Nubian music.