Cidade de mil caras
By Hilal records
Live at Zaratan
Hossam Hilal - Composition and artistic vision/ Electric guitar/ Percussion
Joao Madeira - Double bass
M-Pex - Fado guitar
Patricia Dominguez- Vocals
Mixed and mastered by Hossam Hilal
Translation by Dinis Lapa
Live performance poster by Felix Vong
Album artwork by A.Hafez
Hoot
By cities and memory
Polar Sounds is a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).
Out of all the senses, sound is the one that travels the furthest in the oceans. Because of this, acoustic methods are becoming a critical tool that scientists are using to better understand the Polar seas and the marine biodiversity within.
When sight is impossible, acoustic data can give us invaluable information on breeding habits, migration patterns and the ways in which anthropogenic noise negatively affects marine environments.
Thus, studying the soundscapes of the seas can tell us a lot about how our oceans are rapidly changing.
Through this project, sound artists and musicians will reimagine these sounds to help provide alternative and new perspectives to our scientific data.
he sound clips chosen for the project were recorded from hydrophones located in the Arctic and Antarctic seas and consist of a mixture of biotic, geophonic and human-made sounds.
Written and produced by Hossam Hilal
Somos el aire
By Cities and memory
Sounds of the Year is the annual series from Cities and Memory compiling some of the highlights from one of the world's biggest sound projects, remixing the world, one sound at a time.
Twelve compositions represent some of the huge variety of compositions, approaches and imaginative ways of thinking about sound. Artists from all over the world remix and reimagine field recordings as varied as climate change protests, volcanic hot springs, crashing waves, city soundscapes and desert wastelands.
Musical approaches and compositional techniques include poetry, spoken word, lyrical reinterpretations, ambient electronica and drone, inspiration from reggae protest music and beautiful melodic reinterpretations of found sounds.
The field recordings upon which each composition is based are included as bonus tracks on the album.
Written and produced by Hossam Hilal
Stranger
By Hilal records
Written and produced by Hossam Hilal
Mastered by Jason Kohnen
Artwork by A.Hafez
Saramadeya
Overk
by ID Spectral
Written and produced by Hossam Hilal
Mastered by Jamie Moore
Managed and A&Red by Louis Sterling and Jamie Moore
Distributed by State51 (London)
Artwork by A. Hafez