Ilaria - Muziek

Fathy Salama Was Born By The Nile When He Was A Child He Swam There With His Friends. He Grew Up Listening To The Family Radio Which Played The Music Of Oum Kalthoum Mohamed Abdel Wahab And Farid El Atrash. Later When He Could Tune The Radio He Reached Beyond The Banks Of The Nile To Jazz And To A Huge Variety Of World Traditional Music. Learning The Piano From The Age Of Six Was A Good Beginning And Was Followed By Gigging In Cairo Clubs From The Age Of Thirteen. Soon The Kid Of Shobra Harlem Of Cairo Made It To Europe And To NewYork To Learn Jazz With Such Great Artists As Sun Râ Barry Harris Hal Galper Malik Osman Pat Patrick And Ossman Kareem. Progressing To Creating Many Hits In Cairo During 80's Amr Diab Mohammed Monir Aly Al Haggar Anoushka Touring The World And Winning Two Prizes For His Film Sound Tracks Fallen Angels Paradise's And Signs Of April It Is With Sharkiat Is Own Group That Fathy Is Making His Dreams Come True Of Merging Modern And Traditional Music Together Thus Expressing Both A Message From His Home Country And His Love Of Music. His Music Reflects His Experience From The Orient And From Europe. His "success" On The Music Market Plays A Secondary Role First And Foremost He Wants To Be Understood And So He Works Tirelessly On This Bridge Linking Traditional And Modern Music From The Orient. Today The Adventure Takes Him Towards New Journeys Allows Him To Rub Itself To Other Audiance Other Musicians. Fathy Kept His Passion For The Discoveries.
With A Big Smile Under His Beard Fathy Dashes Into The Electronic Adventure With Kouchari Or His Meeting With Alix Roy... And Sacred Music With Egypt Latest Youssou N'Dour Album Grammy Award For Best Contemporary World Music Album And BBC Award . 1980 To 1988 Composed And Arranged Music For Egyptian Pop Stars Like Amr Diab Mohammed Monir Aly Al-Haggar Anoushka Etc. 1989 Started His Group Sharkiat Played Numerous Concerts In Egypt Europe Africa Japan And Pakistan And Touring The World Until Now. 1991-1993 Composed For The Egyptian National Theater. 1994 Performed In The Berlin Jazz Festival With The German Oud Player Roman Bunka And Malachi Favors Bass Player From The Art Ensemble Of Chicago . A Collaboration That Ended Up With The CD Color Me Cairo. 1994 Started The Second Group Gouzour Presenting Traditional Arab Rhythms. They Toured Egypt Italy And France. 1996 Created For The Cairo Opera House A Show With Manuel De Paula Vocals And Nino Carrion Guitar To Explore The Relationship Between Flamenco And Arab Music. 1997 Sharkiat Worked With A Rock Group From Switzerland The Maniacs. They Released The Album Don't Climb The Pyramids And Toured Europe And Egypt. 1998 Algerian Female Singer And Dancer Karima Nayt Started Working With Sharkiat. They Toured Europe Pakistan Algeria And Egypt. A CD For Karima Has Been Recorded To Be Released Soon. 1998 Gave A Workshop At The Rhythmic Music Conservatory In Copenhagen. 2000 Won Two First Prizes In The Cairo International Film Festival For The Soundtracks Of Fallen Angels Paradise And Signs Of April. 2001 Created The First Multimedia Show Kouchari Using Electronic Music Egyptian Traditional Rhythms And Visuals. Salama Toured Europe With The Project. 2002 Started A Workshop On Rango And Zar And Had Several Performances Last In Essaouira Festival In 2005. 2002 Worked With The Danish Composer Lars Bo To Produce A Big Show Oriental Cut The Project Toured Scandinavia. 2004 Egypt Was Released A Grammy Award Winner For Best Contemporary World Music Album In 2004. Egypt Is A Collaboration Between Salama And Senegalese Singer Youssou N'Dour. Salama Toured With The Project Throughout Africa Europe And The United States. Egypt Won A BBC Award Too. 2004 Collaborated With Italian Composer Eugenio Bennato To Work On Taranta Music From The South Of Italy. They Performed In Egypt And Toured Italy And Algeria. 2005 Collaborated With The Internationally Renowned Norwegian Jazz Saxophone Player Trygve Seim. Together They Played In Egypt And Toured Norway. Salama Gave Various Workshops During His Tour In Norway At Different Conservatories. 2006 Collaborated With The French DJ And Producer Alix Roy. Discography
1991 Camel Dance Face Music Switzerland 1994 Color Me Cairo ENJA Record Germany 1996 Camel Road Face Music Switzerland Cross Currents Music USA 1998 Don't Climb The Pyramids Barraka Switzerland With Les Maniacs
2003 Maqsoom & Mashy El Hal Maxis Vinyles Les Disques Sérieux 2004 Egypt WEA Warner By Youssou N'Dour With Songs Composed And Arranged By Fathy Salama.
2006 Sultany Incognito Compilations
1997 Egypt Music Of The Nil From The Desert To The Sea Virgin France 1998 Cairo To Casablanca An Arabic Musical Odyssey Putumayo World Music 2004 Ottomanic Irma Press
"Please Do Not Ask Him To Be Made The Symbol Of The Egyptian Folk Music He Is Unlike Those That Sculpture The Fashions."
Florence Carrique-Allaire A Nous Paris ! France May 14 To 20 2001 "Fathy Salama Made The Music And The Arrangements For Most Of The Current Stars Among Whom Amr Diab … In The Secret Of His Studio Fathy Salama Works Out Technoïdes Pearls."
Christophe Ayad Libération France July 20 1997 "The Egyptian Group Sharkiat Creates A Deep And Talented Interbreeding The Jazz And The Pop Played Mainly On Traditional Instruments Enters The World Music."
Billboard United States October 25 1997 "Tracks Evoke A Whole Spectre Of Different Brilliant And Lyric Atmospheres As Much As Dark And Threatening Quite Served By An Impressive And Net Production."
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