Hamza El Din - The Water Wheel (1-3)

[TheReasonTroll]

Hamza jams!

[falzaabi]

i love it , aayooooooo

[jesusmendoza89]

how come this only has 10225 views?? this is beautiful

[Hemail]

I wonder how part 2 and 3 looks like ...

[ItinerateWolfMop]

The water wheel has been vital to Nubian agriculture for centuries...but I wonder if the "Water Wheel" he is referring to in the title of this song is actually the Aswan High Damn, which is basically an advanced form of the water wheel. Its construction displaced over 60,000 people including his village of Toshka. I feel like I can hear his grief in having lost his hometown, and the resulting dissolution of a people that still claim descent from the ancient Nubians.

[ItinerateWolfMop]

That's just my interpretation though...wish I could have asked him about it! Fortunately he was able to gather enough of the music of his people to share with the world before it was lost to the overflowing tides of Lake Nubia/Nassar.

[brandonterzic]

@ItinerateWolfMop

In the liner notes hamza said its about a young boy who awakes at dawn and hitches the oxen to waterwheel, and begins to turn it, and gradually the boy goes into a trance.

[ooozeinooo]

@ItinerateWolfMop just a correction .. Nubia was overflowed by the nile after the High Dam was built.

[Ihaghen]

Hamza El Din was a virtuoso of the ud.

His Nubian sound is haunting and eternal.

RIP Hamza El DIn.

[kariaudar]

Sounds simultaneously ancient and timeless.

[Alemayehu45]

@kariaudar good music regardless of genre and source, is often TIMELESS.

[kariaudar]

Music for the heart and soul.

[TheKush2010]

Originally released in 1971, the first recording of Hamza's masterpiece Escalay - The Water Wheel became responsible for introducing many to Hamza's music and still remains popular today, thirty years after its original release. It was finally reissued in the US after many years of being out of print, in sparkling remastered sound, with the original liner notes.

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[davidlazzi]

Really nice hypnotic figurative music !

[TheKush2010]

Riley introduced Mr. El Din to Kronos. "He opened doors for a lot of people, doors between different forms of music,'' said Kronos violinist and founder David Harrington. "We lost a great musician and a great man.''

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[vaitimeri]

his oud playing is beautiful, and so is their forgotten language.

[lsdmadman]

there are no sufficient words,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[culleyb]

perfection

"your soul is the whole world"