Soliman Gamil was unimpressed by the artistic possibilities of tape recording when he studied in Paris in the early 1950s. At that time, Musique Concrète was emerging there thanks to the new technology. But Gamil was only in the city to learn about Western composition from Nadia Boulanger. Back in Cairo, he combined the knowledge he had gained with Pharaonic, Christian and Sufi traditions and shaped it all into his own music. Gamil’s piece ‘Sacred Lake’ refers to the Karnak Temple near Luxor, whose origins date back almost four thousand years.
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