Hossam Ramzy
Egyptian native Hossam Ramzy is the leader and chief percussionist of Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble, best known to Western listeners as the backing group featured on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's No Quarter tour and album. Ramzy began playing the darabouka (Egyptian tabla) at a young age, much to his father's dismay. He moved to Saudi Arabia as a teenager, learning his craft while supporting himself by playing trap drums for radio and television programs. In 1975, he moved to England to study jazz drumming for a while, and eventually recorded an album called Introduction to Egyptian Dance Rhythms. Peter Gabriel heard the record and invited Ramzy to play on Passion, his soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ. Before embarking on the Page/Plant tour, Ramzy also worked with Joan Armatrading, Marc Almond, Electric Light Orchestra, Debbie Harry, and Killing Joke. His Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble has also recorded over a dozen albums, on which Ramzy attempts to present Egyptian and Arabic music he hopes Western audiences will be able to understand and appreciate through his arrangements, rhythm choices, mixing 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.
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Egypt Unveiled (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 4 Jan 2011
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Samya: The Best of Farid Al Atrash
World - Released by ARC on 21 Jun 1994
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Chalf Hassan: Arabic Songs From North Africa
Chalf Hassan, Mohammed Chalf, Mohammed Aziz, Hossam Ramzy
World - Released by ARC on 1 Jan 2000
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Hossam Ramzy's Bellydance Workshop
World - Released by ARC on 7 Aug 2012
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Secrets of the Eye
World - Released by ARC on 22 Feb 2000
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From Cairo to Sao Paolo (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 1 May 2011
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Classical Egyptian Dance by Hossam Ramzy
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 24 Jun 2003
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Sabla tolo 4: Tak raka takum
World - Released by ARC on 5 Aug 2014
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Hossam Ramzy: Egyptian Rai
Classical - Released by ARC on 1 Jan 1995
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Traditions of Turkey
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 10 Dec 2002
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Fadah (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 1 Feb 2010
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The Best of Farid Al Atrash (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 1 Feb 2010
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Egyptian Bellydance (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 1 Jan 2008
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Best of Bellydance
Hossam Ramzy Egyptian Ensemble
World - Released by ARC on 1 Feb 2010
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East West Beats
Hossam Ramzy, Jeevan Anandasivam, Martin Andrew Smith
Electronic - Released by UPPM Records on 3 May 2012
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Best of Hossam Ramzy, Vol. 3
World - Released by ARC on 1 Apr 2014
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Hossam Ramzy: Best of Saaidi
World - Released by ARC on 4 Jun 2013
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Classical Egyptian Belly Dance (Hossam Ramzy)
Oriental Music - Released by ARC on 1 Feb 2010
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Edony
Africanism, Martin Solveig, Hossam Ramzy
Electronic - Released by Yellow productions on 20 Feb 2003
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