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Heliopolis
| Label | Holidays Records – HOL 124 |
| Format | Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress |
| Barcode | 0769791976597 |
| Country | Italy |
| Released | 2020 |
| Genre | Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
| Style | Free Improvisation, Avant-garde Jazz |
Second edition! One of the great projects in Egyptian jazz, the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble was formed by Salah Ragab and Hartmut Geerken as an avant-garde offshoot of The Cairo Jazz Band - the first jazz big band in the country - formed in 1968 when Ragab was appointed chief of Egypt's Military Department of Music and had at his disposal a vast staff of musicians (almost three thousand!), an entire military building, and a full range collection of musical instruments. When encountering this recording, issued in 1970, the deep resonance found between the ensemble and its American counterparts becomes startlingly clear. 'Heliopolis' is a stunning blend of big band spiritual jazz, the music of the Middle East, and the fire and energy of free jazz, unveiling a deep creative resonance with the contemporaneous efforts of Pharoah Sanders, Phil Cohran, and - of course - Sun Ra, combining jazz instrumentation and musical style with indigenous melodies and instruments to create a musical object with few parallels. The album is a throbbing, squealing, wild journey through the creative heights of sound channeling swirling, focused artistry that taps future and past in a single blow. Copies of the original pressing are between the rarest and most sought-after records in canon of recorded jazz. This is the first ever authorized repress released under license from Hartmut Geerken.
| A | Liberty For Iratilim | |
| B1 | Turnus | |
| B2 | Diagnosis For Percussion |
Alto Saxophone, Drum [Ramadan Drum], Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Rattles] – Farouk Abdel Rahman
Bagpipes – Abdel Ghani Metawally
Bagpipes – Ahmed Kollaly
Bagpipes – Rofaeel Francis
Baritone Saxophone, Drum [Ramadan Drum], Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Rattles] – Abdel Hakim Zamel
Bass, Strings, Performer [Wood] – Moohi El-Din Osman
Composed By – Geerken
Conductor – F. W. Arends (B1)
Drums, Congas, Tambourine – Salah Ahmed Ragab
Engineer [Recording] – Joseph Hermeling
Mastered By – Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography By – Nashat Shaker
Piano, Marimba [Xylomarimba], Gong, Cymbal, Chimes [Tubular Chimes], Bells [Fire-brigade Bell, Camel Bells, Horse Bells], Temple Block, Bendir, Congas, Maracas, Performer [Thunder Sheet, Toy Car Producing The Sound Of A Siren], Design [Cover], Layout, Liner Notes – Hartmut Geerken
Tenor Saxophone, Congas, Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Ratttles] – Fathi Abdel Salam
Trombone, Congas, Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Rattles] – Mahmoud Ayoub
Trombone, Drum [Zebra Drum], Gong [Small Gong], Bells [Horse Bells] – Sadeek Bassouni
Trumpet, Drum [Hand Drum], Bendir, Bells [Small Bell] – Khalifa Ismail
Trumpet, Drum [Hand Drum], Goblet Drum [Darabukka], Bells [Horse Bells] – Ibrahim Wagdi
Tuba, Drum [African Tin Drum, African Wooden Drum], Tambourine – Mohammed Abdel Rahman
Bagpipes – Abdel Ghani Metawally
Bagpipes – Ahmed Kollaly
Bagpipes – Rofaeel Francis
Baritone Saxophone, Drum [Ramadan Drum], Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Rattles] – Abdel Hakim Zamel
Bass, Strings, Performer [Wood] – Moohi El-Din Osman
Composed By – Geerken
Conductor – F. W. Arends (B1)
Drums, Congas, Tambourine – Salah Ahmed Ragab
Engineer [Recording] – Joseph Hermeling
Mastered By – Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography By – Nashat Shaker
Piano, Marimba [Xylomarimba], Gong, Cymbal, Chimes [Tubular Chimes], Bells [Fire-brigade Bell, Camel Bells, Horse Bells], Temple Block, Bendir, Congas, Maracas, Performer [Thunder Sheet, Toy Car Producing The Sound Of A Siren], Design [Cover], Layout, Liner Notes – Hartmut Geerken
Tenor Saxophone, Congas, Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Ratttles] – Fathi Abdel Salam
Trombone, Congas, Cymbal, Rattle [Mokkatam Pod Rattles] – Mahmoud Ayoub
Trombone, Drum [Zebra Drum], Gong [Small Gong], Bells [Horse Bells] – Sadeek Bassouni
Trumpet, Drum [Hand Drum], Bendir, Bells [Small Bell] – Khalifa Ismail
Trumpet, Drum [Hand Drum], Goblet Drum [Darabukka], Bells [Horse Bells] – Ibrahim Wagdi
Tuba, Drum [African Tin Drum, African Wooden Drum], Tambourine – Mohammed Abdel Rahman
Second edition of 300 copies.
First ever authorized repress released under license from Hartmut Geerken.
Sleeved on an outer 350gr paper, including a red paper inner sleeve with 'Heliopolis' printed in black, in arabic letters. The edition also includes a 6 page booklet with pictures and a small text by Hartmut Geerken, written in 2018.
First ever authorized repress released under license from Hartmut Geerken.
Sleeved on an outer 350gr paper, including a red paper inner sleeve with 'Heliopolis' printed in black, in arabic letters. The edition also includes a 6 page booklet with pictures and a small text by Hartmut Geerken, written in 2018.
Barcode (Attached To Shrinkwrap) – 7 69791 97659 7