Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Tamer Abu Ghazaleh playing "Helm" live for Loustic Sessions
Shot in Paris, October 5, 2016
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Vocals / Oud: Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
Drums: Khaled Yassine
Bass: Mahmoud Waly
Keyboards: Shadi El-Hosseiny

Sound & Mix: Fahed Riachi
Images & Edit: Julien Nehring

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Helm [Dream]
Extract from a poem by Naguir Sorour
Translated by Nariman Youssef

Oh Mama I had a dream
A strange and frightening dream

I saw myself in a boat
Sailing, mama, in a wide sea
A harvest field with calm waves
No shore in sight

In the dream I was rowing
My cousin, the boatman at the helm
Wrapped in a scarf

His scarf was so red, mama
The colour of tomatoes

Then a white dove
White as a wad of cotton
Landed on his head

No sooner had land appeared
Than wind like a rabid monster
Began to howl

The boat capsized and left me
Screaming in the waves

Oh cousin, oh cousin
Oh cousin

As he walked
Laughing above the waves

He went so far, mama
And on his head the dove
Still stood