Alam ElPhan, the former production company of Amr Diab, has finally started their summer campaign with three albums in about one month.
First, there was Diana Haddad's new album which was delayed so many times that we thought it will never go out. And then, the other Lebanese diva Nawal Al-Zoghbi who also delayed her album release more than once and said that because she was looking for the best. The truth is, she did not reach that best she was talking about. The head of her new album "Eniyk Kaddabin", which she sang it in the Miss Lebanon 2004 ceremony last week, is just another lousy Turkish-Arabic-mixture song. I did not listen to the rest of the album yet, but what I heard is not promising.
The third album is "Seebha Tehebbak" by
Hisham Abbas. Hisham is one of the few pop artists in the Arab World and he belongs to the same generation that Amr Diab belongs to but he could not reach the success of Amr, especially on the international level. Hisham's last two albums included two smash hits in the Middle East: "Nari Nareen" (aka "Habeebi Dah") and "Fenuh". Just to honest with you, his last album was a joy to listen to, and according to a member in the ADW forum, the new album is almost the same.
The summer is long, and a lot of music is still to come in the next weeks. Amr Diab's new album is expected to be out on the first week of July, while a lot of other singers are intending to release their new works in the three-months of the summer before everyone get back to school and suffer listening to the national anthem every morning.
