ALBUMS

Ummah Oum, featuring the amazing vocals of Shahin Badar, is one of the stand-out tracks from the latest Kaya Project album 'Desert Phase'. In this digital-only remixes EP, Ummah Oum (translated as 'People Wake Up') gets reworked treatments by the world-fusion talents of Adham Shaikh, Makyo, 100th. Monkey (Andy Guthrie) and Kaya Project. Alongside the original version the 5 new mixes take Shahin's haunting vocals into distant and exotic realms, each with a distinct flavor of their own. From the outset the melodic, midtempo GlitchBeats Mix sets up a large, dusty tribal groove that leads to Makyo's sultry bellydance-inspired interpretation and carries into Adham Shaikh's soaring gypsy dub perspective. Next up comes the 100th. Monkey Remix, a deeper late-night variation veiled in mystique that drifts, like desert sand, into the instrumentally-rich and mellow oasis of Kaya Project's Slow Hop Mix.