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omar khorshid - guitar el chark - sublime frequencies - cd

Genre: World - Misc

1. Guitar El Chark [Guitar of the Orient] (Nour Al Malah)
2. Wadil Muluk [Valley of the Kings] (Omar Khorshid)
3. Sabirine (Omar Khorshid)
4. Ommil Habiba [Mother, My Dearest] (Omar Khorshid)
5. Hebbina Hebbina [Love Us Like We Love You] (Farid El Atrache)
6. Rahbaniyat [Rahbani Variations] (Rahbani Brothers)
7. Ah Ya Zaman [For Old Time's Sake] (Traditional)
8. Kariaat El Fengan [Fortune Teller] (Mohamed El Mougi)
9. Arrabia'h [The Spring] (Farid Al Atrache)
10. Alf Layla [One Thousand Nights] (Baligh Hamdi)
11. Ka'an Azzaman [That Was Yesterdaay] (Elias Rahbani)
12. Pop Concerto (Gordon)
13. Banadi Aleik [Calling For You] (Farid Al Atrache)
14. Al Rissassa [The Bullet] (Omar Khorshid)
15. Sidi Mansour [Master Monsour] (Traditional, Tunisia)
16. Raksat El Kheyl [Dance of the Horses] (Omar Khorshid)
17. Solenzara (Marfisi - Darbal - Bacara)
18. Enta Omri [You Are My Life] (Mohamed Abdel Wahab)
19. Habibaty [My Beloved] (Elias Rahbani)
20. Raqset El Fada [Dance of Space] (Nour Al Malah)
21. Warakat Ya Nassib [Lottery Ticket] (Omar Khorshid)
22. Taksim Sanat Alfeyn [Music of the Year 2000] (Omar Khorshid)
23. Ya Dala Dallaa [Love Me More] (Farid Al Atrache)
24. Aziza (Mohamed Abdel Wahab)
25. Sawt El Hob [Voice of Love] (Omar Khorshid)
26. Awal Hamsa [The First Whisper] (Farid Al Atrache)
27. Men Ajel Ayneyk [For Your Eyes] (Riad Sonbati)
28. Randaphon Record Company Promo Spot

Double CD reissue of the out-of-print vinyl edition. With an additional ten bonus tracks and a 14-page booklet in a tri-fold digipak !

The late Omar Khorshid remains an iconic legend of the Arab world, though he's received criminally little international acclaim. Born in Cairo in 1945, the glittering age of Egypt's cultural reinvention, Khorshid was soon to become one of its luminaries and most well-known, if short-lived, voices. He is regarded as the greatest guitarist the Arab world has ever known.

By the mid-'60s, Khorshid was established with his group Le Petit Chats, an Egyptian beat group modeled after the prevailing influence of Elvis and The Beatles. It was at this time that one of the reigning figures of contemporary Arabic music, Abdel Halim Hafez, asked Omar Khorshid to join his orchestra. With Baligh Hamdi composing, Hafez with Khorshid in place would create some of the most innovative modern sounds in the Arabic musical canon. Time with the Hafez orchestra offered Khorshid instant fame, and it wasn't long before he was asked to play with the queen of Arab music, the voice of Egypt herself, Oum Kalthoum. Over the next few years, Khorshid became a well-established and integral part of the Arab musical landscape.

He was featured heavily in live concerts, national TV and radio and studio recordings, playing for the leading artists of the day. The guitar had now become an essential ingredient in the Oriental orchestra. Khorshid began recording albums under his own name for the prestigious Lebanese record labels Voice Of The Orient and Voice Of Lebanon. Working with visionary engineer Nabil Moumtaz at Polysound studios in Beirut, Khorshid would take his music into some of the most progressive musical terrain of its time.