Omry Maak - Album Information

Album Information

Reviewsacclaimed Angham for her capacity of metamorphosing the style of her songs in "Omry Maak", combining a western flavorin most of her songs' arrangements while keeping her arabo-Latino identity that many knew her from. The record surpassed industry expectations when it debuted at number one on all charts thanks to the help of her carefully selected songs, and in the lead "Omry Maak" which had already spent five weeks at number one on Mazzika channel and ART Top 20 prior to the release of the record in the markets. The latter sold 345 000 copiesthe first week of release. Angham recorded most of her tracks under the supervision of M. Nash'at Naser elDeen, Sameh elMazny, Mustafa Ra'ouf, and Hussam Radi. The mixage and digital mastering have been accomplished in Sawt elMousiqua (Voice of Music) studio with the help of M. Nash'at Naser elDeen. The cover, showing a radiant and inviting Angham, is done by photographer MKI while the design and layout were done by Bonus Euro RSCG company. The outcome of the entire record made it look like the result came smoothly, but lots of things happened at the backstage prior to the record's birth. First, Angham's husband, Fahd, was against the release of "Omry Maak" track because he felt the song will not witness any possible success. Angham almost was going to retreat the song, until she put it back under the direction of Mohsen Gabsr who found it very new and predicted a huge success. On the same note, Angham said in Maa Hobbi (With Love) talk show on Rotana in 2007 that there is one song that she regretted putting in the album. "Ana Mkhassmak" (I Am Mad At You) - the song that Angham did not like - was too "folkore" and did not suit her. However it was kept in the record because Angham bargained that it will succeed in the young demographic proportion who does not listen to her in the first place.