Artist: Hossam Ramzy
Genre(s):
Other
Ethnic
Discography:
Sabla Tolo II: Further Journeys Into Pure Egyptian Percussion
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Baladi Plus
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Tabla Solo
Year:
Tracks: 13
Secrets Of The Eye
Year:
Tracks: 9
Faddah
Year:
Tracks: 8
Best Of Om Kolthoum
Year:
Tracks: 7
Egyptian native Hossam Ramzy is the leader and headman percussionist of Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble, charles Herbert Best known to Western listeners as the fiscal support grouping featured on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's No Quarter tour and album. Ramzy began performing the darabouka (Egyptian tabla) at a brigham Young age, often to his father's disheartenment. He touched to Saudi Arabia as a adolescent, erudition his cunning bit encouraging himself by playing trap drums for radio and television programs. In 1975, he touched to England to study malarkey drumming for a art object, and lastly recorded an record album called Unveiling to Egyptian Dance Rhythms. Peter Gabriel heard the disc and invited Ramzy to take on on Passion, his soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ. Before embarking on the Page/Plant circuit, Ramzy excessively worked with Joan Armatrading, Marc Almond, Electric Light Orchestra, Debbie Harry, and Killing Joke. His Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble has excessively recorded all over a 12 albums, on which Ramzy attempts to constitute Egyptian and Arabic music he hopes Western audiences testament be able to empathize and apprize through his arrangements, speech rhythm choices, mixture touches, and tempos. In 2000, Ramzy released Sabla Tolo: Journeys Into Pure Egyptian Percussion and El Amar. Gypsies of the Nile-Rahhal followed in early 2001.
