Video | Film | Jazzfest Berlin 2021

Terrible Sounds – A Triptych

Video work by Philip Rizk & Nadah El Shazly

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© Philip Rizk

This audiovisual meditation on Egypt’s fraught colonial history by German-Egyptian film maker Philip Rizk is guided by a new recording featuring polymath Hartmut Geerken with Nadah El Shazly, Maurice Louca, Ayman Asfour and Sharif Sehnaoui. The new sessions are an homage to a rare 1971 experimental recording that included Geerken and Egyptian army general and jazz drummer Salah Ragab. Rizk spins the various elements together for this special Jazzfest Berlin commission.

Premiere on 7 November 2021 at silent green

Available from 14 October 2021

22 min

English

German

Word mark Jazzfest Berlin

Lineup

Terrible Sounds – A Triptych

Philip Rizk concept & video
Nadah El Shazly musical direction & music editing, vocals, keyboards
Hartmut Geerken metal tongue drum, mizmar, bandura, flute, arghul and angklung
Maurice Louca keyboards
Ayman Asfour violin
Sharif Sehnaoui guitar, saz

Co-commissioned by Berliner Festspiele / Jazzfest Berlin and Sharjah Art Foundation with support by Mophradat