Salamat

Primarily studio-based, Salamat was the brainchild of Mahmoud Fadl (b. 12 September 1955, Cairo, Egypt), who gathered together a group of the finest musicians and singers of the Nubian culture (including members of Ali Hassan Kuban's band), at El Araby Studio, Cairo, in September 1993 to record ‘Nubian Al Jeel' (new generation) music. Fadl's intention was to create a sound that was deeply rooted in Nubian musical tradition and yet open to influences from Egypt and beyond. The result was El Mambo Soudani (‘The Sudanese Mambo'), a mix of raw percussion and wailing brass and voca...