Languishing in a dark corner of payplay.fm, I found this album, Desert Startlight, with some very surprisingly beautiful pieces of music! I’ve never heard of it, or of the artist/group Ametrine, whose name frankly sounds a little pharmaceutical to me. How I discovered it was when I was encashing some of my “Karma Points” or [...]
I first heard this hypnotic piece of music on Kajira Djoumahna’s American Tribal Style videos. And I was totally spellbound. At that time, I couldn’t even get the music because music wasn’t sold downloadable online and anything shipped from Amazon took a month and a half (it still does) by which time you get disgusted. [...]
When I lived in Maadi, Cairo very long ago, I treated the Maadi Club as a second home. There was always something to do there; if nothing else, just walk around absorbing the surroundings and what people were doing. It was in Maadi Club that I met Omar Sharif – for real!
But one afternoon, as [...]