Talking favourite albums and memorable music encounters with the Cairo-based multi-instrumentalist and audio time-traveller calling up the spirits of Egypt’s past.
CASABLANCA: After two years of COVID-enforced absence, Casablanca’s Jazzablanca music festival returned at the start of July. Its 15th edition brought together a stellar line-up of artists, including the acclaimed Belgian-born Anglo-Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas. Atlas’ work tends to defy easy categorization (although it will often be labelled “world music”).
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Nitin Sawhney Sets March Release For Immigrants Album, Shares New Song Differences Tuesday, 02 February 2021
Nitin Sawhney has confirmed the release date of his first album in over five years. Immigrants will arrive on March 19 via Sony Music Masterworks and feature new versions of the previously shared Movement, Lifeline, You Are, Down The Road, and Differences, which blends eastern sounds with lively percussion and a bubbling bassline. Check it out below along with the record s artwork and tracklist.
Having returned with new material in 2020, the LP showcases compositions inspired and contributed by artists who either identify themselves as immigrants, are from immigrant heritage or wish to support international immigrants. The previously unheard Vai, Exile, Replay, Heat & Dust, Box, Tokyo, Another Sky and Dream also appear among the record s 20-strong tracklist.