Shabda : शब्द

Musical pictures are discovered consequently and figuratively in chronological order in the poem, each of them has its own meaning. The composition is opened with “Pagan Russia” showing the listeners pictures of wide steppes of old Russian Land. Unusual timbres of ancient wind instruments – ocarinas together with muffled sounds of kettle drums as background music, bring your mind to old times.

The song are located on the up-tempo synthesizer base makes for a wonderful meeting between the levels of organic voices and electronic beats dance (like Deep Forest has expertly displayed on their album). Other traditional celtic instrument’s if Uillean Pipes (Irish Bag Pipes) Bag Pipes Bombarde Hautbois and a number of others also enjoy solos in the songs music is always very impressive and magnificent with the album explore the many emotions from sadness to joy.

Immortal Egypt is a deeper exploration of the Egyptian dance/Western contemporary theme running through the albums ‘Pharaoh’ and ‘Eternal Egypt’ by Phil Thornton and on which Hossam has collaborated as a percussionist. During the recording of ‘Eternal Egypt’ Hossam was able to take samples of work in progress to Cairo and overdub ‘Kawala’ flute and quarter tone Accordion.