I saw the greatest gig of my life last night.
Omar Souleyman
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Hes on tour.
I urge anyone to go and see him.
Intense Syrian Folk Electro.
I have a vague memory of djugel posting a link about a year ago and being impressed.
Then i saw he was gonna play Glasgow...so i wandered along.
O M G
my mind was carried off on wild dervish head vision.
people of all races were simultaneously belly-dancing, screaming and drinking.
you must witness this.
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Written May 23 2009 , Tags: awesome
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haha yeah it was a good gig alright...the hangover wasn't so nice tho.
we just got a bunch of his records in at our shop... been meaning to check them out.
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That sounds awesome. I've been checking out some of his stuff online, it's pretty dope. I would love to see an Omar Souleyman gig.
fug yeah!!
I love the video- what a badass.
booo000...I was playing a gig the night the Capsule girls put him on in Brum, or I'd have been there. Everyone I know said it was amazing!! (fuck fuck fuck!!!)
 I did get to see The Necks the next night though, which helped to ease the pain somewhat...x Is this for real?
It sounds like the pop music old men listen to everywhere in Asia and the Middle East. Not a diss or a flame, just feel like I'm on the outside of a joke. this is awesome, please tell me he's playing the us soon?!! please?!
greg said: "Is this for real? It sounds like the pop music old men listen to everywhere in Asia and the Middle East. " well it sounds new to me. raw and yet at the same time extremely musical. like Bhangra, but with solos. people in the west have heard all the heavily sequenced electronica gimmicks. i just want to hear people who can jam their arses off and stay in the groove. ps: any links to more music like this? lol, Eddie in 'likes old mans music shocker'
Greg, you obviously haven't seen Eddies vinyl and 78 collection. :P greg said: "Is this for real? It sounds like the pop music old men listen to everywhere in Asia and the Middle East. Not a diss or a flame, just feel like I'm on the outside of a joke." there's no joke. thats exactly what it is. and its great. but live his music has more power - it was like intense folk techno with massive 4-to-the-floor kick drums.  "monty" said: "well it sounds new to me. raw and yet at the same time extremely musical. like Bhangra, but with solos. people in the west have heard all the heavily sequenced electronica gimmicks. i just want to hear people who can jam their arses off and stay in the groove. ps: any links to more music like this?" I'd look for music like that where most of Omar Souleyman's fans who don't live in Syria get his music: On bootleg cassette in a grocer in an immigrant neighborhood in a huge city. yo montster!
....asked my dad for some similar stuff - he said he doesn't know much syrian stuff but, he had these links bookmarked under 'music' - lol link link link he also said he'd put together a CD of rai, arabic and kabyle music...which I will send on. he couldn't say much about how similar it would be but he thought some of it might be. either way, NOT BAD FOR DAD. haha! x i'll second the grocery store bootleg thing- i've gotten tons of this kinda stuff, typically about $2us on cassette for the central asian and african stuff, cd for the south asian stuff. you should check out boo-d-boo as well.
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