Regards sur l’Horizon

With the grace of an ancient ritual and the depth of a contemporary meditation, “Sur le Fil de l’Aube” emerges as one of the most evocative piano compositions in recent years. Written by Franco-Egyptian composer and artist Sherif Dahroug, the piece is the second movement of the EP Regards sur l’Horizon – Three Visions for Piano, winner of the 2024 Global Music Award in California. Released in September 2024, this work stands at the heart of contemporary avant-garde music, tracing a sonic bridge between Egyptian cosmology, universal spirituality, and inner exploration. “Sur le Fil de l’Aube” — literally on the thread of dawn — moves with a light yet solemn step along the boundary between darkness and light, between the end of what has been and the beginning of what is to come. It is within this fragile and sacred space that Sherif Dahroug places his vision: an archetypal figure, a mediator between opposites, listening to the world in silence and returning it in the form of music. The piano keys are not merely played, but invoked; the notes emerge like slow breaths from a world in transformation, like distant echoes of Ra ascending on the horizon, like silver threads stretched between sky and earth. All is immersed in a suspended, almost mystical atmosphere, where every pause is charged with meaning. The piece is part of the EP Regards sur l’Horizon, a pianistic triptych in which Dahroug explores, through sound, three symbolic moments of the cyclical nature of time and human experience. If “Sur le Fil de l’Aube” represents the threshold of beginning, the project as a whole unfolds as a spiritual journey, where life and death, memory and intuition, matter and spirit intertwine. Dahroug’s aesthetic, refined and intense, moves between contemporary classical music, electronic suggestions, and minimalism. Yet what strikes most is the depth with which the composer conveys philosophical and spiritual concepts through an essential, pure sonic language, far from ornament or virtuosity for its own sake. Sherif Dahroug’s career is in constant ascent: in 2025, he was officially invited to join the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs® as a voting member — a recognition that affirms the value of his contribution to the global contemporary music scene. His poetics speak to those who seek in music not only beauty, but experience, reflection, and transformation. With Sur le Fil de l’Aube, Sherif Dahroug invites us to remain in attentive listening, to walk respectfully across the thresholds of the world, and to search, in music, for an answer to our eternal need for balance and beauty.