Hamza El Din: Eclipse Enter The Mysterium

Album Info

		1. Helalisa		Year of Recording: 1978
		2. The Visitors		Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
		3. Ollin Arageed		Producer: Mickey Hart
		4. Yor Love Is Ever Young		Engineers: Mickey Hart, Dan Healy, Tom Flye
		5. Mwashah		Design: Jerry Takigawa
				Photography: Q. Whiting-O’Keefe
				Series Ethnomusicology Consultant: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D.

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Description

Eclipse, Hamza El Din’s fourth album overall, was originally released in 1978 and reissued as part of “THE WORLD” series. El Din (1929-2006), a pioneering oud (the short-necked, pear-shaped Arabian lute) player, singer, and composer from the Sudan brought pleasures and subtleties of Arab music and Nubian folk tradition to new audiences. His work was particularly noteworthy given ancient Nubia’s then-impending drowning in the aftermath of the construction of the High Dam at Aswan. El Din performs oud, tar (a single-skinned frame drum), vocals, and hand claps on tracks ranging from a percussive Nubian wedding song to a traditional Moorish classical piece for teaching voice.