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Mahmoud Fadl was born in 1955, a descendant of a Nubian family rooted in the Griot culture of the "Battikol" people. He was raised in the Egyptian cities of Assuan and Cairo and started his musical career as a limbo dancer and musician for Nubian and Arabic wedding celebrations. His outstanding talent for percussion soon made him a much sought after musician for top Arabic orchestras and singers like Ahmed Adawia and Nubian soul legend Ali Hassan Kuban.
After several international tours including guest appearances in Syria, Morocco and Greece, Mahmoud Fadl established himself in Europe to develop his own international solo-career. Today the master drummer works and travels between Cairo and Berlin, carrying out rhythm research for his numerous projects. To date he has released four albums with his group Salamat and five under his own name including three with his Drummers of the Nile ensemble, all on Piranha. He has appeared on albums by The Klezmatics and Maurice el Medioni and his Tribal House Project "United Nubians" is one of the most innovative developments of the vibrant Berlin club scene. Catch up with Mahmoud Fadl, musician, film actor, fashion designer and always busy ambassador of "Cairo Cool".

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Tahirovic Irfan , born on 07/02/1983 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a musician and a composer who entered the music world at the time of the war in Bosnia, during which he was a refugee in several countries (Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, Sweden and Germany).

He mainly plays percussion instruments (Darbuka, Djembe, Congas, Bongos, Repenique, Caicha, Surdo, Cajon and Udu) and combines them at the same time.

His professional music career started in Munich with the band Trilogie der Lust“
After his return to Sarajevo in 2006 he joined the “Sarajevo Drum Orchestra“ (www.sdo.ba) with which he played, until May 2007, Samba, African, Latino-American and Oriental rhythms.
In May 2007 he joined the cover band “Lana & Exhale“ (www.lanahamza.com) and performed with them in Sarajevo's and Bosnia's most popular clubs turning some world hits into Afro-Cuban, reggae or Latino-house rhythms.
At the same time he started to study the Balkan music and devoted himself in understanding and feeling the music he was playing. He attended many workshops in Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and had the honour to play and create music with remarkable musicians such as:
Izzet Kizil (percussion, Turkey), Giovani Falzone (trumpet, Italy), Francesco Berzatti (saxophone, Italy), Toni Kitanovski (guitar, Macedonia)

Soon after, he started to play with one of the most popular folk-singers in the Former Yugoslavia, Halid Beslic. After the 2009/10 winter tour with Halid Beslic (Zenica 10.000 people, Zagreb - 2 nights in a row - 50.000 people, Banja Luka 7.000 and Karlovac 6.000) he was called as a guest percussionist by one of the greatest Pop-Rock bands in the Former Yugoslavia, “Crvena Jabuka“ and played with them in Sarajevo's Olympic Hall “Zetra“ in front of 20.000 people.

At the moment he is recording an album with his Sevdah band “Divanhana“ and works with his Irfan Tahirovic Trio (www.irfantahirovictrio.tk) that was founded in November 2009.

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Born in Milano (Italy), MA in Ethnomusicology at the University Of Bologna. Since 2005 he has been living in Greece, where in 2007 he took the degree in traditional percussions at the F. Nakas Conservatory of Athens, with P. Kourtis. In Italy he had been studying classical percussions for 3 years, jazz drums for 6 years, and had started to study Italian and Mediterranean traditional percussions on his own. In 2006 he attended a masterclass with Misirli Ahmet. In 2010 he attended a workshop with traditional Italian percussionist Raffaele Inserra.

He founded in Italy the “ethno-jazz-rock” band “Juba Lane”, which in 1999 won the Italian National Jazz Contest “Fiesole Jazz”. He also founded the trio “Le Bal Masqué” and the “Marsa Project” quartet, playing modern arrangements of Italian and European traditional tunes. With these bands, where he was active also as arranger and composer, and with other bands with which he used to perform (“Radio Dervish”, “Il Paese delle Mille Danze”, “Shlomot”, “Gnawa from Casablanca” – Morocco, “Touareg from the Ahaggar” – Algery, and various other), he performed in concerts and festivals in Italy, Bosnia, France, Palestine, Greece, Malta, Spain, Albania, Serbia, Romania, Bulgary, Cyprus, Croatia.

He performed in the Italian tour of the musical “Gianburrasca”, with Marco Morandi, with music by Nino Rota, and took part in many studio recordings in Italy, Malta, Bosnia, and Greece.

In Italy he used to teach drums in a Music School for three years, and he was active in seminars and workshops about percussions in Music, Primary and Secondary schools.

He wrote and directed three “urban performances”, with musicians, dancers, actors and street artists, which were presented in Italy and abroad.

In Greece he uses to perform with P. Kourtis, in his percussion team “Drumvoice” as well as in other projects. He is also member of the percussion band “Echodrasi”, directed by N.Touliatos, and has founded the open band – project “Suditalia”, which is active in workshops and concerts of Southern Italian traditional music.

He started dealing with body percussion in 2008, and he attended classes with Max Pollak, T. Daskalopoulos and the “Stomp” members Leela Petronio and Simone Clarke. With Thanos Daskalopoulos he founded the body percussion project “Kantu Korpu”.

In Greece he performed with the “Lykio Ellinidon” and with several bands, playing rock, reggae, Greek and Italian traditional music. He played with renowned musicians and singers of the modern and folk scene, as G. Kotsinis, G. Kapsalis, M. Farantouri, Z. Karounis, I. Nega, G. Kontogiannis, V. Lekkas, E. and S. Vougioukli…

He played percussions in the theatre play “The Dead Brother”, directed by S. Hatzakis, with performances in Greece and abroad.

Since 2009 he teams up with Viva Biancaluna Biffi and Armando Illario in a trio project about medieval and Renaissance music.

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