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Price: $7.92
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597970227
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: 2002-08-27
Studio: Nonesuch
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Customer reviews of Explorer: Nubia - Escalay the Water Wheel
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Wonderful palying, good recording
Comment: I had this record years ago, and thought the water wheel was a very hypnotic and earthy tune. Now, i have the disk, and the sound quaility is quite good for a recording so old.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Bad ...
Comment: in an attempt to expand my musical horizions, i have been buying cds in the Explorer Series. This is one of my favorites. It is very mellow and very powerful, it comes highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hard to put your finger on.
Comment: After hearing a review of the Explorer series on NPR, I decided to look at the CDs and this is the one I chose to order. I was not disappointed. It is a very mellow CD that is quite unlike anything else in my collection. Listening to it is almost like meditating...a religious experience.
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Summary: Nubia Revisted
Comment: This recently re-released CD, formerly available under the title "Escalay: the Water Wheel" features three of Hamza el-Din's greatest performances. Drawing firmly upon his lively and exotic Nubian background, Hamza weaves it together with his natural gift for playing the oud (an istrument of Arab rather than Nubian origin). This CD is unlike anything you have ever heard before. Although there are many similarities with other Middle Eastern and African styles (due to shared history and cultures from Egypt to Ethiopia) it is still unique and beautiful. Check it out.
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Editorial Reviews:
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When this set--part of the Nonesuch Explorer Series--was first released, Hamza El Din had already headlined at the Newport Folk Festival and Woodstock and released an album on the Vanguard label. But this was the one that put him on the map, bringing his oud (Arab lute,) tar (an ancient frame drum), and plaintive vocals to a much wider audience. Born in 1929, El Din has dedicated his life to the music of his ancestral homeland of Nubia, much of which now lies underwater in the shadow of the Aswan Dam. The title track, a 21-minute meditation based on the creaking, rhythmic sounds of a wooden water wheel, later became his signature work. Despite the unadorned simplicity of his forces, El Din evokes centuries of laboring agrarian workers. He later re-recorded the piece several times, including a version with the Kronos Quartet, but he has never quite duplicated the tidal ebb-and-flow of the original performance. --Christina Roden
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