Sharkiat @ Fathy Salama. Sharkiat, Arabic scented jazz. Arabic scented jazz, spice coloured blues : the music created by Fathy Salama, an Egyptian pianist and composer, for his ensemble Sharkiat (Orientals) has unique flavours. It seduces European or Japanese audiences but also the popular Egyptian audience, which is the most demanding. Sharkiat never takes it easy. Its improvisations, a feature common to Arabic music and jazz, are built on a deep knowledge of the Arab heritage. Musicians juggle with "maqam" (the traditionnal rythms and scales of Arabic music) by dusting them and by making them dance. They play with the thousand and one rythms carried by the Nile over the centuries, from deep inside Africa to the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. Being known in Switzerland and in Germany, where the album "Camel Dance" was classified well in Top-World, the group Sharkiat is, such a volcano, in activity since 1988.
In phase with its time Sharkiat, who targets a young public, put all the modern cards in his service. About El Max. Elmax It is an area west ofAlexandria, where most people work in fishing. TheVillageofFishermenhas its own architectural pattern. Its houses were built on the two banks of an agricultural drain canal which makes its way through a hill. These houses have the shape of reversed pyramids; as they become narrower the more they go down the hill. Fishing boats lie by these houses, ready for going out into the sea and coming back with everyday living.
Meditating the nature of the place and its structure, we can discover the characteristics of the inhabitants and their closed community with its own history, culture, social structure and eventually its economic system which totally depends on the environment. For earning living is subject to the weather conditions and the gifts of the sea. Artellewa آرت اللوا | Independent contemporary art in Cairo: exhibitions, workshops and events at Artellewa Art Space.
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