''Songs from the Victorious City'' is an album in the world music genre written by

Anne Dudley Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre ...

and

Jaz Coleman Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (born 26 February 1960) is an English singer and musician. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of post-punk group Killing Joke. Coleman is known for his unique raspy baritone voic ...

, recorded in 1990 in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

and

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. It takes its name from Cairo itself, in

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

القاهرة (

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: al-Qahirah), literally "The Triumphant" or "The Victorious".

Track listing

Personnel

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, cobra

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flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

* Rada Bedaire -

nai Nai or NAI may refer to: Music * ''Nai'' (album), an album by singer Anna Vissi * Nai (pan flute), a wind instrument, also known as a pan flute (Romania and Moldova) * "Nai" (song), a 2007 CD single by Irini Merkouri Organizations * National A ...

* Ibrahim Kowala -

kawala The ''kāwālā'' ( ar, or ; also called ''salamiya'', ) is an end-blown cane flute used in Arabic music. It is similar to the ''ney'' but has six finger holes, while the ''ney'' has seven (including one in the back). The ''kawala'' comes in up ...

* Fouad Rohin -

* Amir Abd-el - kanun * Aboud Abdel Al -

Hossam Ramzy Hossam Ramzy ( ar, حسام رمزي; 15 December 1953 – 10 September 2019) was an Egyptian percussionist and composer. He worked with English artists like Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Siouxsie Sioux, as well as with Arabic music artists like Ra ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Cheikh Taha -

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

Gilbert Biberian Gilbert Biberian (born 19 February 1944, died 27 January 2023) was a British guitarist and composer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey of Greek-Armenian heritage. Biberian's ethnic roots was integral to his compositions. He studied at Trinity College of ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Tareq Aakef - conductor of Cairo Strings ;Technical * Roger Dudley, Sameh Almazny - engineer * Ted Hayton, Martin Rex (track 7) - mixing

Samples

"Songs from the Victorious City" was sampled extensively on two songs by

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in 1993. Both "

The Eyes of Truth "The Eyes of Truth" is a 1994 song by German New age band Enigma, released as the second single from their second album, ''The Cross of Changes'' (1993). Similar with "Age of Loneliness", it featured samples of Mongolian Folk Music (most notably A ...

" and "

Age of Loneliness "Age of Loneliness" is a 1994 single by the musical group, Enigma. The song was released as the third single from ''The Cross of Changes''. Overview The song can be regarded as a remixed version of an earlier Enigma song, " Carly's Song", where ...

" contains distinctive Mongolian samples most notably, Alsyn Gazryn Zereglee (''Алсын газрын зэрэглээ'').

External links

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