Cairo-Albawaba
Egyptian singer Eman Al Bahar Darwish reiterated that his songs, whether religious, romantic, social or political, had always been purposeful.
“Stealing from the foreign music has recently increased which some people, to my big astonishment, describing it as some sort of worldly trend. Going international has never been imitating the west. The Spaniards, for example, offered the Spanish folklore and took it to the international arena and many others did the same,” Darwish told Albawaba.com.
He added, “Going international is the acme of maturity in local production by featuring it in a manner that fascinates the world around us. But despite that I am optimistic as this type of current peculiar singing has begun to recede which is a good indicative that people began to get bored of the song in its present style as it has no home or identity orientation. A westernized song is nothing but a sentence from Spanish and some tunes from Rap music and so on.”
Commenting on the saying that a good work imposes itself, Darwish believes that “this statement in general holds true. A good work regardless of type, time, or place imposes itself from the logical point of view.”
“Unfortunately we find these days that a song that has recorded very high sales falls short of the standards as far as the words and tunes are concerned. We might also find the contrast with a trashy song recording smash hits due to visual fascination and musical videos. In short standards for judging a good work have disappeared,” added Darwish.
Darwish has experience in the songs of Musahharati (one who awakes people in Ramadan to take meal before dawn) as he sang and composed 30 religious prayers in addition to Musahharati’s statements which were released in a cassette.
He said,”my experience with Musahharati’s words differs completely from that of Sayyed Makkawi as I composed these statements in my own way and in a modern style.”
