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Robin Trower - Confessin' Midnight

The region around the Nile is one of the oldest and richest cultural areas in the world. There are documents stating that Egyptian musicians have used harps and flutes circa 4000 B.C., and double clarinets and lyres from around 3500 B.C. Percussion instruments were added to the orchestras around 2000 B.C. Probably there was no musical notation system existing in that period and there are no notated documents about the music of ancient Egypt. Yet musicologists believe that the liturgical music of the Coptic Church is directly deriving from the ancient Egyptian music.

Arabs call Egypt "The mother of the world" because of its long and colourful history, which started thousands of years ago. In the recent centuries Egypt has been one of the first countries to create recorded and visual art forms in Arabic world... Cairo has been the dreamland for many Arabic musicians and singers to create a career in classical and pop music. Classical Arabic music has resulted from various styles across the regions of Arab speaking world, and is enjoyed by people of different classes and backgrounds. Egyptian classical music has been the most powerful and effective among all Arabic countries, and it represents many styles particularly associated to certain cities, such as Alexandria, Ismailia, Portsaid and the villages of Upper Egypt.

In Egypt also many different religious Islamic music styles, such as Sufi and Zar, are existing, and simultaneously a Christian liturgical music sung in the ancient Coptic language is part of Egyptian legacy in her small, but still extant Coptic Christian population. Egyptian cultural life has left also remarkable mark to people representing other ethnic groups, even after they l had keft the country. These include sizeable populations of Greeks, Jews and Armenians.
Source: ‘Between Two Worlds’ – Comparisons and Explorations in Oriental And Western Music Cultures by Alaa El Din Abbas


Robin Trower - Confessin' Midnight
  • Album: A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years
  • Genre:Rock
  • Released: 2010

"Robin Trower's first two albums, Twice Removed From Yesterday and Bridge Of Sighs firmly established his reputation. This was particularly true in America, so when Trower recorded his third album, 1975's For Earth Below, it was during a most inspired and successful time in his career."

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