A seamless melding of beautiful, Arabic, Bedouin, and Persian vocals with melodic western instruments and drum loops.

Written around the magic of ancient Egypt - from Ra, Horus and Set to the Rosetta Stone and the Book of the Dead - this album journeys from Mother Nile to the blood-red desert moon of the Sahara.

Huda Sabour builds on the wonderful track she sang on A Pattern of Lands, translating and interpreting Riley's lyrics from English into Arabic and Bedouin and providing the haunting vocals for such tracks as The Prayer Boat and In the Footprints of Ra.

Hamid Toyouri and Ramin Kousary add stunning Persian vocals and the spine-tingling sound of the ney flute and Persian violin. The silky skills of Andrew Mortimer and Jon Mark on guitar, Tony Tziakis on bozouki, and Chris O'Connor's dumbek complement Philip Riley's melodic keyboard and percussion arrangements.

Secret Egypt is an album for all those who like their music to cross borders, collecting together the stories and special magic of the World's most romantic cultures.

"Oh Mother Nile
Your eb and flow are the bitter and sweet of me
My breathing in and out.
Fashioned from your clay
Spinning like a leaf among the reeds
Drifting blind through deeps and shallows
Onward from the Highlands to the Delta"
Mother Nile