{"product_id":"halim-el-dabh-the-wondrous-reverberations-of-halim-el-dabh","title":"Halim El-Dabh – The Wondrous Reverberations of Halim El-Dabh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnihaya Records \u0026amp; Studio Safar S.A.L. \/ USA \/ 2022\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It was a drive really, to hear something beyond what I was hearing.\u003cbr\u003eSo I had to use all the electronic means to reach that sound that I\u003cbr\u003ewas hearing and it’s not there. And the means to do it was right there\u003cbr\u003earound me.”\u003cbr\u003e–Halim El-Dabh speaking about his process in creating Taabir El Zaar\u003cbr\u003e(aka The Wire Recorder Piece) in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e—Joe Namy      \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2610908056\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/minimal=true\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/annihayarecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-wondrous-reverberations-of-halim-el-dabh-annihaya-studio-safar-flint-magazine\"\u003eThe Wondrous Reverberations of Halim El-Dabh [Annihaya \/ Studio Safar \/ Flint Magazine] by Halim El-Dabh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"ElMuelle1931","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57122890613080,"sku":"FM003 END021","price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/4486\/9300\/files\/halim-el-dabh-the-wondrous-reverberations-of-halim-el-dabh-9297671.jpg?v=1776800061","url":"https:\/\/www.elmuelle1931.com\/products\/halim-el-dabh-the-wondrous-reverberations-of-halim-el-dabh","provider":"ElMuelle1931","version":"1.0","type":"link"}