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Egypt
Creator
Title
Egypt [sound recording] / Youssou N'Dour.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Nonesuch, p2004.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Sufi songs of Senegal. All songs written by Youssou N'Dour & Kabou Guèye. "Nearly all of the lyrical references in Egypt are to venerated caliphs, saints and sages of Senegal"--Notes.
Music published by EMI Virgin Music Publishing France S.A. (SACEM & African Broadband Publishing (BMI).
Compact disc.
Program notes (unsigned) in English, with Wolof vocal text transcriptions by Abdoul-Aziz Mbaye, Cheikh Amala Diallo, Cheikh Thiam & Fiona McLaughlin, and English translations by Mbaye, Diallo, Thiam, McLaughlin, Thomas Rome & Youssou N'Dour ([16] p. : port.) inserted in container.
Recorded at Hany Mihanna Studio and Mix Studio, Cairo, & Studio Xippi, Dakar.
Sung in Wolof.
Format
Audio
Language
Wolof
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2009
Performers
Youssou N'Dour, lead vocals ; with Kabou Guèye, Souka Guèye & Mama Guèye, vocalists ; Babou Laye, kora ; Mbaye Dieye Faye, percussion ; Beugue Fallou Ensemble ; Fathy Salama Orchestra [of Arabian instruments], Fathy Salama, conductor.
Contents
Allah (6:10)
Shukran Bamba (5:30)
Mahdiyu Laye (4:58)
Tijaniyya (5:45)
Baay Niasse (5:18)
Bamba the Poet (3:51)
Cheikh Ibra Fall (3:35)
Touba, Daru Salaam (5:50).
Issue number
79694-2 Nonesuch
Subjects
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Beugue Fallou Ensemble.
Fathy Salama Orchestra.
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