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Conakry
09:00 - 11:00

A special hour on Editions Syliphone Conakry, the Guinean state-funded record label that ran from 1967 to 1986, across the tenure of President Sékou Touré. The purpose of the label was to support and promote Guinean traditional and national music, at home and abroad. Since its independence from France in 1958, Guinea's artists had been radicalised by an official cultural policy that sought to modernise the arts while still being faithful to the traditional roots. It was a policy called authenticité, and music was its prime focus. Under the policy each region in Guinea, some 34 in total, were represented by artistic troupes. These consisted of an orchestra, a traditional music ensemble, a choir, and a theatrical group. The government purchased new musical instruments for the orchestras, at a huge cost, and encouraged the groups to write songs about topics such as African nationalism, anti-colonialism, and anti-imperialism. The Syliphone label thus captured a moment in African history when a new nation asserted its voice and placed music at the forefront of its cultural identity. Their’s is a story that is intertwined with the political struggle for independence in Africa.

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London
09:00 - 11:00

Clandestine record label, The Trilogy Tapes, tear up the NTS studios once a month, ripping through the grittiest and muddiest tracks. No words on this one, just tunes.

Amr Diab

Amr Diab

Amr Diab has been played on NTS in shows including Supporter Radio: Heartbreak, featured first on 29 July 2022. Songs played include Nour El Ain, Wala Ala Baloh (From Film: Intervention Divine) and Kalast Feek Kol Alkalam.

Amr Diab عمرو دياب (born October 11, 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of jeel music ; the contemporary face of Egyptian al-jeel pop music, according to World Music, and the most popular singer in the Middle East. Diab has endured as the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt. He was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 and 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer.

Amr Diab is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music. He has created his own unique style known by Arabic music lovers as "Mediterranean Music", a blend of Western and Arabic rhythms.

In The Mediterranean in Music, p. 117, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as "the new breed of Mediterranean music."

In Mediterranean Mosaic by Goffredo Plastino, and in Some Meanings of the Spanish Tinge in Contemporary Egyptian music, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, Nour El Ain.

In the analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab [Audio CD], Victor W. Valdivia [Allmusic], said: "His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab's superb skill in creating it."

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Amr Diab

Amr Diab has been played on NTS in shows including Supporter Radio: Heartbreak, featured first on 29 July 2022. Songs played include Nour El Ain, Wala Ala Baloh (From Film: Intervention Divine) and Kalast Feek Kol Alkalam.

Amr Diab عمرو دياب (born October 11, 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of jeel music ; the contemporary face of Egyptian al-jeel pop music, according to World Music, and the most popular singer in the Middle East. Diab has endured as the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt. He was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 and 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer.

Amr Diab is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music. He has created his own unique style known by Arabic music lovers as "Mediterranean Music", a blend of Western and Arabic rhythms.

In The Mediterranean in Music, p. 117, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as "the new breed of Mediterranean music."

In Mediterranean Mosaic by Goffredo Plastino, and in Some Meanings of the Spanish Tinge in Contemporary Egyptian music, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, Nour El Ain.

In the analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab [Audio CD], Victor W. Valdivia [Allmusic], said: "His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab's superb skill in creating it."

Original source: Last.fm

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Nour El Ain
Amr Diab
Alam El Phan1996
Wala Ala Baloh (From Film: Intervention Divine)
Amr Diab
Capitol Records0
Kalast Feek Kol Alkalam
Amr Diab
EMI Music Arabia2001
Matkhafesh متخافش
Amr Diab, عمرو دياب
Delta Sound2001
صعبان عليا Saaban Alaya
Amr Diab
Alam El Phan2000
Habibi (ya Nour El Ain)
Amr Diab
Virgin France1999
احلف بالليالى
Amr Diab
Not On Label (Amr Diab)0