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Aug. 20th, 2007 01:45 pmAnother nice fun show at the Middle East last night. This is very good to have right before the pageant. Drum solo was somewhat random but I don't think sucked. Note to self: no hair tosses if there is a flower in your hair, tangleage ensues. Audience was lots of fun. I'm dancing the Sunday of Labor Day weekend and I'm looking forward to staying out and dancing all night after I perform :-)
Picked up Wash Ya Wash 6 from emusic and I have to say I am disappointed so far. I am hearing a lot of remixing of previously recorded songs into new ones, in ways that don't always work. There's a song that's almost the same note for note as a Gizira Band song, I think it's just a slightly remixed version of the Gizira Band recording (I've danced to it so I know it pretty well). Composer Mohammed Ali throws awful synthesizer lines into perfectly nice folkloric songs on an unfortunately predictable basis. All his compositions sound the same to me anyway, even after working with a couple of them intensively. A couple of songs are alright, Cocktail Oriental and the balady improvisation. Drum solo is fine too, but the world does not need more six minute drum solos. It needs more really excellent three minute drum solos, in my opinion.
Picked up Wash Ya Wash 6 from emusic and I have to say I am disappointed so far. I am hearing a lot of remixing of previously recorded songs into new ones, in ways that don't always work. There's a song that's almost the same note for note as a Gizira Band song, I think it's just a slightly remixed version of the Gizira Band recording (I've danced to it so I know it pretty well). Composer Mohammed Ali throws awful synthesizer lines into perfectly nice folkloric songs on an unfortunately predictable basis. All his compositions sound the same to me anyway, even after working with a couple of them intensively. A couple of songs are alright, Cocktail Oriental and the balady improvisation. Drum solo is fine too, but the world does not need more six minute drum solos. It needs more really excellent three minute drum solos, in my opinion.
