44TH UNITED ARAB EMIRATES NATIONAL DAY,
ABU DHABI 2015
The soundtrack for the 44th United Arab Emirates National Day was the second collaboration in 2015 with Christian and music-production company FiveCurrents. With Christian as Music Director, DASDUR once again was able to stunningly combine traditional and modern music—in this case, adding an epic orchestra landscape to traditional Arabic elements. Bringing together members of the Abu Dhabi cultural committee, local musicians, singers and producers, the full soundtrack was completed in four weeks. Along with an updated national anthem, it was performed on December 2 in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed City Sports Stadium in front of all the rulers of the emirates and an audience of 25,000.
Credits
| Production | FiveCurrents |
| Creative Director | Libby Hyland |
| Music Director | Christian Steinhäuser |
| Music Producer | Christian Feltkamp |
| Head of Production | Jason Zwolinski |
| Composer | Mohamed Al Ahmed Fayez Al Saeed Amr Abd El-Aziz |
| Orchestration | Zaid Amr Abd El Aziz |
| Orchestra | Berlin Session Orchestra German Film Orchestra |
| Conductor | Joris Bartsch-Buhle |
| Recording | Tobias Lehmann TELDEX |
| Mixing | Max Trieder and Sebastian Clobes |