Songs from the Victorious City is an album in the world music genre written by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman, recorded in 1990 in Cairo and London. It takes its name from Cairo itself, in Arabic القاهرة (pronounced: al-Qahirah), literally "The Triumphant" or "The Victorious".
Track listing
Personnel Anne Dudley - keyboards Jaz Coleman - violin, cobra pipe, flute Rada Bedaire - nai Ibrahim Kowala - kawala Fouad Rohin - violin Amir Abd-el - kanun Aboud Abdel Al - violin Hossam Ramzy - percussion Cheikh Taha - accordion Gilbert Biberian - guitar 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 Enigma in 1993. Both "The Eyes of Truth" and "Age of Loneliness" contains distinctive Mongolian samples most notably, Alsyn Gazryn Zereglee (Алсын газрын зэрэглээ).
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