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Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble
“Heliopolis”
Original 1970 LP produced by the Deutsches Kulturinstitut, Goethe
Intitut, Cairo
Signed by Hartmut Geerken (and, I am guessing, by Salah Ragab)
and dedicated to Sun Ra
This is a pretty far-out and pretty RARE LP!
Salah Ragab is better-known to jazz aficionados here as the
leader of the remarkable Cairo Jazz Band:
“Chief of the Military Music Department, Salah Ragab had at
his disposal a vast retinue of musicians (almost 3,000!) all versed in the
aural language of marches and national anthems, but with little knowledge of
the more fluid aspects of contemporary jazz. From this foundation Ragab went on
to carve a sound that is at once familiar and completely alien, using his own
skills on the drums to inform and sculpt the vivacious music on offer...” -- http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=27161
Hartmut Geerken is a German polymath and percussionist who
is an expert on Sun Ra as well as on the ethnomycology of Afghanistan - and
many, many other things as well.
Tracks:
Liberty for Iratilim
Turnus
Diagnosis for Percussion
Personnel:
Salah Ahmed Ragab – drums, conga, tambourine
Hartmut Geerken – piano, xylomarimba, gong, cymbals, tubular
chimes, fire-brigade bell, camel bells, horse bells, temple blocks, bendire,
conga, maraca, thunder sheet, “toy car producing the sound of a sirene”
Farouk Abdel Rahman – alto sax, Ramadan drum, cymbals,
mokkatam pod rattles
Fathi Abdel Salam – tenor sax, conga, cymbals, mokkatam pod
rattles
Abdel Hakim Zamel – baritone sax, two Ramadan drums,
cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Mahmoud Ayoub – trombone, conga, cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Saddeek Bassouni – trombone, zebra drum, small gong, horse
bells
Mohammed Abdel Rahman – tuba, African tin drum, African
wooden drum, tambourines
Ibrahim Wagdi – trumpet, hand drum, darabukka, horse bells
Khalifa Ismail – trumpet, hand drum, bendire, small bell
Moohi El-Din Osman – bass, strings and wood
Abdel Ghani Metawally, Rofaeel Francis, Ahmed Kollaly
– bagpipes
LP is in excellent VG+++ (or better) condition - some light occasional sound but overall VERY clean and quiet. Looks like it was never played. Sleeve is also in great shape, some edge and shelf wear, no splits, spine intact though a little bit frayed.
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