Sharkiat - Camel Road

Fathy Salama, was born in Cairo (Egypt). He started playing the piano at the age of six.. He began by learning, the roots of traditional arabic music up to Oum Kalthoum followed by the western classics, such as Bartok and Tchaikovsky...

He then studied jazz in Egypt and the United States with such great artists as Barry Harris, Hal Galper, Malik Osman, Pat Patrick and Sun Râ.

On 1980 / 1988 : Fathy composes and arranges for a variety of Egyptian stars ; Amr Diab, Ali Al Haggar, Anushka. These hits from Cairo, the Arab Hollywood, are well known throughout the Arabic world. He is one of the inventors of "jeel" What is jeel ? music, the Arab pop. He also begins to write film music.

1989 : He founds his own ensemble, Sharkiat. While playing his own compositions,he also blends traditional Arabic sounds with Jazz improvisation to form a new way of expression.
Sharkiat releases two CDs, Camel Dance and Camel Road. The group plays numerous concerts in Egypt, Switzerland, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czeck Republic, Austria, Spain, Estonia, Croatia, Zimbabwe and Japan. In France, playing among others, in the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Festival Paris Quartiers d'Eté and Festival Châlon dans la rue.

Musicians:
Fathy Salama - keyb, Gamal Lotfy - oud, kanun, voc, Romany Krishna - eb
Said El Artist - perc, Yahia El Moogy - viol, Gamalat Shiha - lead voc
Tarek Hamouda - g
Guests:
Ibraheem Kawala - kawala, Mohamed Lazeez - perc, Claudio Rodriguez - perc, Marek Stryszowski - sax, voc, Sally, Maha, Juna, Ashraf, Esaf, Mostafa, Ehab, Khaled, Sayed, Shreef - backing vocals, Mohamed Abu Sad - sampling


Track List
1.Nahawand
2.Al Kabil [Nubi]
3.Amm
4.Fire Dance
5.Rast
6.Night in Cairo
7.Yalla Nezu
8.Sultany
9.Ilaria (Intro)
10.Camel Road
11.Rast [Trio]

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