{"id":18781,"date":"2022-04-08T21:51:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2022-04-08T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:51:40","slug":"nancy-mounir-announces-debut-album-nozhet-el-nofous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18781","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Mounir announces debut album <em>Nozhet El Nofous<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18782\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18782\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nancy-Mounir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nancy-Mounir.jpg 700w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nancy-Mounir-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Eslam Abd El Salam<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A prominent name of Egypt\u2019s independent music scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nancy.Mounir.fans?mc_cid=e9e2a57891&amp;mc_eid=2b6211b684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Mounir<\/a> is a talented and versatile multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer who plays various musical instruments including violin, piano, bass, theremin and the kawala, a traditional Egyptian bamboo flute. Following years of work researching female Egyptian singers from the early 20th century, she announced the release of her debut album <em>Nozhet El Nofous<\/em>, which means &#8220;Promenade of the Souls&#8221;. The upcoming record &#8220;explores microtonality, non-metered rhythms, and bold vulnerability through a musical dialogue between Mounir\u2019s own arrangements and the sounds of archival recordings of once-famed singers&#8221;, explains the press release. &#8220;It explores the techniques and perspectives of a more freewheeling time period in Arabic music, before Arabic maqam (modal systems) and other musical foundations were standardized by the Middle East\u2019s cultural power brokers in the early 1930s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nozhet El Nofous<\/em> will see the light of day on June 3rd through Simsara Music&#8217;s new imprint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simsara.me\/?mc_cid=e9e2a57891&amp;mc_eid=2b6211b684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simsara Records<\/a>, and we can already hear the first otherworldly and entrancing single &#8216;Khafif Khafif&#8217; featuring Saleh Abdel Hay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=505151515\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3147967251\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancymounir.bandcamp.com\/album\/nozhet-el-nofous\">Nozhet El Nofous by Nancy Mounir<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent name of Egypt\u2019s independent music scene, Nancy Mounir is a talented and versatile multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer who plays various musical instruments including violin, piano, bass, theremin and the kawala, a traditional Egyptian bamboo flute. Following years of work researching female Egyptian singers from the early 20th century, she announced the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2698,2699],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-nancy-mounir","tag-saleh-abdel-hay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18785,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions\/18785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}