Muslim bands
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Topic: Muslim bands
Posted By: Marcelo
Subject: Muslim bands
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 17:34
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In another topic, Danbo wonder about Muslim bands. Well, here is a short list with bands/musicians from Muslim countries. Is there anybody who knows about them? I just heard only one song from Osiris and the Al-Bird concept album "Sodoma and Gomorra". Djamel Allam (Algery) Aziza Zadeh (Azerbaijan) Osiris (Bahrain) Revival (Iran) Rabih Abou-Khalil (Lebanon) Nekropsi (Turkey) Gunesh Ensemble (Turkmenistan) Al-Bird (Uzbekistan)
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Posted By: semismart
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 17:39
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Can't say that I have but you can add Alamora from Turkey. And to think the Taliban banned music. Oh well Banning is half their name! ------------- <i>Sports cars</i>, helping ugly men get sex since 1954. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 18:11
| How cool. What about the music, have you heard any? |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 18:42
| Gunesh is great. The Russian label Boheme issued the two Gunesh albums originally released in the 80's (I think there is an eponymously titled one and the second called "45 degrees in a shadow" in 2000. Leader Rishad Shafi is a great drummer. Musically jazz rock (Passport?) with a sort of 80's disco feel on some tracks (especially the second release), and other tracks liberally take references from all part of the east - Arabic to Vietnam. Then one or two tunes seem a cross between Mahavishnu Orch and Shakti. Somebody tells me Peter Gabriel tried hard to get Shafi into Western Europe to play with his band, but Russian communism bureaucracy at the time defeated him. |