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Mamnou3 El Intizar

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Music


Omar Kamel has released three retail albums (Shabaka, SunDance, & MoonRise) and two online collections – the freely downloadable electronic album titled “A Fish Called Valis” and “SeptiC”, an album of English Rock/Pop/Alternative tracks.

Shabaka

Shabaka Album Cover

Co-produced with Yanni Giovanos. Shabaka was Egypt’s first ever electronic music album and fused elements from Egyptian media with live and electronic instrumentation. You can listen to more from Shabaka here.

SunDance

SunDance Album Cover

Designed to go along with the WDA DVD by Keti Sharif, and co-produced by Keti, Sundance contains dancy electronic sounds and live instrumentation. You can listen to more from SunDance here.

A Fish Called VALIS

SunDance Album Cover

We understand that you’ve had trouble keeping things in-mind, and in-noos – and that things may fall to the left of your aorta. We have the cure, and it is A Fish Called VALIS. You can listen to and download the whole VALIS collection here.

MoonRise

SunDance Album Cover

The other side of SunDance, so to speak, Moonrise collects ten new groove-laden lunar-sublimated tracks and a remix of Purr-Caution. You can listen to more from Moonrise here.

SeptiC

SunDance Album Cover

The album SeptiC – released online under the band name of Goldfish Euphoria is basically Guitar-Rock Electronic Pop. A bit of this and a bit of that. English songs some more polished than others. Sonically diverse experiments in rock/pop. You can listen to more from SeptiC here.

Mamnou3 El Intizar

Omar is now preparing to release an album of Arabic songs, titled ‘Mamnou3 El Initizar’. The tracklist so far includes the tracks ‘Shafshaq’, ‘El Wa7sh El Motamadin’, ‘Be3eed’, ‘Ghali’, ‘Tadrib’, and a few other surprises.

Designed to serve as an enema to the somewhat stagnant Arabic music scene, Mamnou3 El Intizar heralds a new generation of Arabic music.

Yeah, he knows. Big Words.

This is not production-line music, let’s be very clear about that…Lyrics were not passed on from a jaded writer to a commercial composer who then passed it off to a slick arranger and a star vocalist.

The songs in Mamnou3 El Intizar are, for better or worse, sung and composed by the same guy who wrote them.

The music style is a mix of modern rock and Arabic instrumentals, and the lyrics are free flowing rhythmic verse, sometimes sung, sometimes not – with themes otherwise neglected in much of the popular Egyptian music.

Besides his work in music, Omar writes media and political commentaries, is producing an Egyptian comic book for children, is the founder of Egypt Art Link and has worked as a writer, producer, and director on public awareness campaigns for the environment and education.

He can be reached through Eka3 or through this website.

Eka3 Productions Web Site