Eclipse
Details
1978 / Release Date
LP / Format
Smithsonian Folkways / Label
Hamza El Din / Writer
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This is a beautiful, even lush recording of El Din's latest oud mastery.
2mo
July Challenge ๐ - ๐ธ๐ฉ Day 20 ๐ธ๐ฉ
Nubian music for the day 20, Sudan.
I had seen that this was one of the best works in the genre, so I had certain expectations for this album, which unfortunately weren't met. To be honest, I haven't enjoyed this project; I found it long and boring. No song here should be 10 minutes long, much less 18, like the fourth track; there's not enough going on here for them to be that long. The instrumentals are quite empty in my opinion, ... read more
MICROTONAL MARCH: 2/8
Only 2 albums in, and I’m absolutely loving the discovery of these microtonal string instruments – last weeks review featured the kora, and ‘Eclipse’ today features the oud, a short-necked 11-string instrument similar to the lute. The oud is a coursed instrument, meaning that one string or two or more adjacent strings are grouped closely together and typically played as a single string. This means that with some careful and specific tuning, you can ... read more
One-liner:
More in line with what I was expecting from Microtonal March— an album by Hamza El Din that is equally enchanting and unnecessary.
![Hamza El Din - ในใผใใณ - ใใคใซใฎใใ [Songs of the Nile]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/200x0/album/1709398--songs-of-the-nile_082011.jpg)
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Track List
| 1 | Helalisa 3:36 | 68 |
| 2 | The Visitors 9:47 | 67 |
| 3 | Ollin Arageed 8:00 | 70 |
| 4 | Your Love Is Ever Young 18:30 | 68 |
| 5 | Mwashah 3:54 | 69 |
Total Length: 43 minutes
