Famous comedian Ismail Yassin meets a mad scientist who wants to take his brain and use it to bring a mummy back to life (although the 'mummy' in this case looks more like the Frankenstein monster). Along the way, Ismail and his sidekick Abdel Fattah run into Dracula and the Wolfman and involve themselves in a series of goofy shenanigans.
These young musicians from Egypt, Turkey, Portugal and Italy bridge the distance between the shores and sonic worlds of a rapidly changing region. Their first album, recorded in Paris, blends both timbres and backgrounds in a unique artistic collaboration with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, supported by Abu Dhabi Festival. The composition process is a compromise between the written score — the notes on the stave — with an exclusively oral tradition, in which the theme is developed only by those taking part, first by listening to it and then by repeating it. Their music is influenced by the folk music of each country and by much improvisation and jazz, and uses melodies from the European classical tradition blended with rhythms and instruments of the Middle East.
..features traditional Turkish folklore side by side with jazz. World music from Arabian countries and the Balkans is playfully interwoven with the blues, orient and occident meet joyfully and blend into a colourful world of sound that expresses wholehearted joie de vivre.