Cairo Nightclub, The Tapes no. 2. The music of Ahmed Adaweya
The second of a serie dedicated to the 1970s /80s Shaabi folk music of Cairo and its biggest star Ahmed Adaweya click here for info and the first episode .
Adaweyah is a master of the folk (shaabi) variant of the mawwal, an improvised vocal form full of melancholy and wisdom, told with a play of words and homonyms. As with the American blues of the Jamaican Reggea, A local idiom and use of language and dialect plays a large role in Egyptian folk (shaabi) music.
Notable instruments and instruments are the accordion (played by M. Asfour and Hassan Abou El-Seoud), the beautiful signature trumpet of Samy El-Bably, great percussion team (Darabouka, Riq,mazhar, sagat) led by Hassan Anwar, the violin by Mahmoud El-Gersha & Abdou Dagher, the ney (Arabic flute) by Sayed Abu Sheffa and the (guest) saxophone player Samir Sorour. All among the best players of their era.
Adaweyah from film El-banaat ayza eh (what do girls want ?) 1980 with bellydancer Hayatem.
Playlist:
1. Mawwal habeet gedid . Ahmed Adaweyah 03:17
Ahmaed Adaweyah- Mawaweel Adaweyah Part 2 Sout El- Hob –Fine Artistic Cairo .Tape 126/2000
2. Mawal Tekhun ‘eeshi leeh. Ahmed Adaweyah /M.Asfour 05:08
Ahmed Adaweyah: Adaweyah fi el-nada: Nada tape 2000/5117/265
3. Ya betaa’ El-tuffah ( Trad.) 12:52
Ahmed Adaweyah: AHMED ADAWEA_VOL 1.Sout El-hob SHB CD 5124. Mawal Ana lashan
4. Mawal Ana lashan Alraml- Sha’rek hanettih 03:43
Ahmed Adaweyah: adaweyyah Part 1 Sout El-hob tape.
5. Mawal qadi El-Qudah – El-lleil ahu taal ( Trad.) 06:49
Ahmed Adaweyah: Adaweyah Mawaweel part 3 Sout El-hob tape 230/2000.
6. Sabah El-Sabaah Ahmed Adaweyah / Hassan Abou El Seoud 10:18
Ahmed Adaweyah: Bent El-Sultan Good News tape no. GN 45H003
7. ela dah Ahmed Adaweyah / Hassan Abou El Seoud 09:22
Beit Adaweyah (Bij Adaweyah thuis Sout El-hob tape 741-9-99.
8. Mawal ana elli rameet ezzahr Trad./Ahmed Adaweyah 07:39
Adaweyah Mawaweel part 1 Fina Artistic/Sout El-hob tape 229/2000.
