Oct 14, 2025
Touch Music’s players presented in these discussions felt close to one another, but we did not mention those that didn’t. Soliman Gamil, for instance, was an Egyptian composer and his soundscapes don’t fit what I established about Touch Music, yet they also belong in the company’s arsenal, because he seems to be channeling the distant past of his country into the shapes few actually assumed to be possible with the latter. Yes, he brings the music of Egypt towards the contexts few would’ve even entertained about in the possible talks about the compositions from there. One can presumably suggest he put his national into the transcendental in the vein of Vangelis, Of course, the results were different for him, but they shared the ethos.
