The Wondrous Reverberations of Halim El-Dabh, by Halim El-Dabh

The Wondrous Reverberations of Halim El-Dabh

by Halim El-Dabh

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1.	Aria for Strings, for String Quartet [2007, Excerpt] 00:53	info
2.	Ethiopian Collages [1964, Excerpt] 00:40	info
3.	Taming the Crocodile with Trance [1976, Excerpt] 01:07	info
4.	Ademaelard [2005, Excerpt] 00:55	info
5.	Untitled 2 [2005, Excerpt] 01:06	info
6.	Shall for Piano [2000, Excerpt] 00:38	info
7.	Surrr-Rah - The Belly Amidst the Satellites [2000, Excerpt] 00:49	info
8.	Leiyla Visitations [1959, Excerpt] 00:47	info
9.	Kaff Dance [1960, Excerpt] 00:56	info
10.	Meditation in White Sound [1959, Excerpt] 01:00	info
11.	Alcibiadis' Monologue to Socrates [1959, Excerpt] 00:54	info
12.	Venice [1960, Excerpt] 00:37	info
13.	The Legend (Part 4) [1952, Excerpt] 00:58	info

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Considered to be one of the earliest composers of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017) was an Egyptian-American musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator. The works in this compilation span his astounding six decade career, moving across Halim El-Dabh’s eclectic, undefinable, and groundbreaking oeuvre – including field recordings, concertos, electronic music compositions, and improvised instrumentals.

Made available here for the first time in the vinyl record format, this compilation was lovingly curated by El-Dabh researcher Joe Namy and Benjamin Gaydos, under the guidance of Halim El-Dabh’s estate.

“It was a drive really, to hear something beyond what I was hearing.
So I had to use all the electronic means to reach that sound that I
was hearing and it’s not there. And the means to do it was right there
around me.”
–Halim El-Dabh speaking about his process in creating Taabir El Zaar
(aka The Wire Recorder Piece) in 1944.

This drive was the beginning of an 8 decade journey into sound transformation. The works in this compilation span the years 1949–2005, moving across Halim El-Dabh’s eclectic undefinable and groundbreaking oeuvre - including field recordings, concertos, electronic music compositions and improvised instrumentals - made available here for the first time on the vinyl record format. Curating this compilation proved to be an exercise in the limits of recorded music history, a history El-Dabh indelibly left his mark on and transcended, we’re still catching up to his sound. These selections are by no means a comprehensive overview of El-Dabh’s musical universe, we need to be diligently mindful for what isn’t included, or as El-Dabh reminds us, to hear beyond what we are hearing. These selections, rather, can be seen as a collection of some of his more autobiographical works, fragments from the inner starlight of El-Dabh’s cosmology.
—Joe Namy

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released June 10, 2023

All tracks courtesy of Halim El-Dabh LLC and Deborah El-Dabh (p) 2022. Used by permission.

Mastered by Warren Defever.
Track by track liner notes by Joe Namy.

Artwork by Hatem Imam.
Design by Studio Safar for Flint Magazine.

Pressed in Detroit at Third Man Records.
Limited edition of 750.

This album is a collaborative release by Flint Magazine, Studio Safar, and Annihaya Records.
FM003 / END021

flintmagazine.org // studiosafar.com // olivetones.com

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Created in 2009 by Lebanese musicians and producers Raed Yassin and Sharif Sehnaoui and visual artist Hatem Imam, Annihaya is a conceptual music label that specializes in the displacement, deconstruction and 'recycling' of popular or folkloric musical cultures. ... more

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