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Nour Project is an Egyptian band consisting of seven independent musicians from Cairo and Alexandria, led by the Egyptian saxophonist Nour Ashour. Since its first live performance in February 2013, Nour Project has been performing across Egypt, participating in many significant events and concerts, meanwhile creating a great buzz for primarily instrumental and world music across the country.
Nour Project is speaking to a generation, becoming a platform mixing funk, pop, jazz, and oriental sounds. The band's message is simple: "to play good music that entertains its listeners." Nour Ashour's aim was to bring together different musicians from various walks of life to perform and play live as a collective of musicians. Ashour created the project with the aim to introduce something new, different, and unique to the Egyptian music scene. Egyptian audiences identify Ashour with his saxophone – or, more specifically, with a whole family of saxophones: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, etc.
Through over a decade of performing, Ashour has played with many bands: Ressala, Crash Boom Bang, El-Dor El-Awal, among others. He also performs with the well-known Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir in his live concerts in Egypt and internationally.
Nour Project is living proof of raw talent, ambition, and honesty. The whole concept behind the project is to promote music that can easily be heard and heartfelt. With the saxophone's dynamic approach to the great music composed with every song, Nour Project offers a vast variety of music genres that draw from a series of musical influences including jazz, funk, oriental, African beats, and world music. Nour Project believes that "music is a universal language that does not always need words."
The project, consisting of seven musicians, has a set of songs and instrumentals that are very colloquial. At times, that aspect is accompanied by vocals and words. At other times, all instruments put together create a panorama of words in their own sense and understanding, which allows listeners to deliberately connect and reflect on the songs they listen to.
Nour Project has played across Egypt in many respected venues including Cairo Jazz Club, El Sawy Culture Wheel, El Rasif, El Cabina, Cultural French Institute, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Nady Gezirah El Ward (Mansoura).
Nour Project is speaking to a generation, becoming a platform mixing funk, pop, jazz, and oriental sounds. The band's message is simple: "to play good music that entertains its listeners." Nour Ashour's aim was to bring together different musicians from various walks of life to perform and play live as a collective of musicians. Ashour created the project with the aim to introduce something new, different, and unique to the Egyptian music scene. Egyptian audiences identify Ashour with his saxophone – or, more specifically, with a whole family of saxophones: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, etc.
Through over a decade of performing, Ashour has played with many bands: Ressala, Crash Boom Bang, El-Dor El-Awal, among others. He also performs with the well-known Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir in his live concerts in Egypt and internationally.
Nour Project is living proof of raw talent, ambition, and honesty. The whole concept behind the project is to promote music that can easily be heard and heartfelt. With the saxophone's dynamic approach to the great music composed with every song, Nour Project offers a vast variety of music genres that draw from a series of musical influences including jazz, funk, oriental, African beats, and world music. Nour Project believes that "music is a universal language that does not always need words."
The project, consisting of seven musicians, has a set of songs and instrumentals that are very colloquial. At times, that aspect is accompanied by vocals and words. At other times, all instruments put together create a panorama of words in their own sense and understanding, which allows listeners to deliberately connect and reflect on the songs they listen to.
Nour Project has played across Egypt in many respected venues including Cairo Jazz Club, El Sawy Culture Wheel, El Rasif, El Cabina, Cultural French Institute, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Nady Gezirah El Ward (Mansoura).
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