Songs from the Victorious City

1990 studio album by Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman

Songs from the Victorious City

Studio album by Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman
Released	1990
Genre	Arabic music World music
Length	40:15
Label	China
Producer	Anne Dudley, Jaz Coleman

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Songs from the Victorious City is an album in the world music genre written by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman, recorded in 1990 in Cairo and London. It takes its name from Cairo itself, in Arabic القاهرة (pronounced: al-Qahirah), literally "The Triumphant" or "The Victorious".

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Awakening"	4:47
2.	"Endless Festival"	3:59
3.	"Minarets and Memories"	3:25
4.	"Force and Fire"	5:08
5.	"Habebe"	3:47
6.	"Ziggarats of Cinnamon"	3:06
7.	"Hannah"	4:14
8.	"The Conqueror"	3:15
9.	"A Survivor's Tale"	3:50
10.	"In a Timeless Place"	4:49

Personnel

Anne Dudley - keyboards
Jaz Coleman - violin, cobra pipe, flute
Rada Bedaire - nai
Ibrahim Kowala - kawala
Fouad Rohin - violin
Amir Abd-el - kanun
Aboud Abdel Al - violin
Hossam Ramzy - percussion
Cheikh Taha - accordion
Gilbert Biberian - guitar
Tareq Aakef - conductor of Cairo Strings

Technical

Roger Dudley, Sameh Almazny - engineer
Ted Hayton, Martin Rex (track 7) - mixing

Samples

"Songs from the Victorious City" was sampled extensively on two songs by Enigma in 1993. Both "The Eyes of Truth" and "Age of Loneliness" contains distinctive Mongolian samples most notably, Alsyn Gazryn Zereglee (Алсын газрын зэрэглээ).