El Fajoumy Soundtrack Album

Egyptian filmmakers are not too familiar with the soundtrack business that goes along with any movie and helps make money for the movie and its related merchandise. I am sure they know the concept, but not too many have applied it in marketing. I know that they use music and footage from their recently released movies to help get the word out. But not many Arabic movies get their own soundtrack CD release.

That's when you know El Fajoumy is not your regular a movie, it's a movie about a lefty poet that has captured the hearts of his nation for decades with his true to life poems and rich in political and social zingers. Ahmad Foad Nijim is that poet and the movie about his life is out. Khalid Al Sawy, the lefty actor and most vocal supporter for the Egyptian revolution takes on the lead role.

As a poet, many of his poems turned into songs and that's why there is a full album to go along with the movie, the music was composer by the late Sheik Imam Issa, the blind musician. Popular Egyptian singer Ahmad Saad, the voice of man down on his luck in Egypt gives the vocals and judging from the title of the songs, this is going to be a wonderful journey in time through Egypt


1- Sab7 El Ward
2- Wah ya Abdow
3- Rag3ow El Talmza
4- Dystan
5- El Gad3 Gad3
6- Kol Ma ThL
7- 7a7ha
8- Ana Ro7t el 2l3a
9- Y3ish Ahl Baldy
10- Geifara