AL MASSRIEEN - Modern Music LP Field Recordings Headway Recordings)

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flutes and percussion

This is music that can confidently hold its own with pioneers such as Davey Graham

intertwining sublime sonorities across the geographic expanses between their respective homes in France and the United States

and when paired with the brass of Gabriel Bristow and Simon Sieger they form an irresistibly light touch quartet

AL MASSRIEEN - Modern Music LP Field Recordings Headway Recordings)Were happy to present a reissue of Modern Music, the last album by the iconic Egyptian band Al Massrieen, originally released in 1984. This was the final installment in a five album run that marked the group as one of the most unique acts to emerge from Egypt at the time. Al Massrieen developed a distinctly modern sound shaped by funk, disco, and pop, written in Arabic lyrics and rooted in Egyptian musical tradition but with a twist. The group was