April 2010
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homeland hip hop iii @SouthpawBK feat... →
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March 2010
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bbc on the iranian underground rock scene. →
from the beeb’s strand: Iran’s alternative musicians discuss the burgeoning underground music scene and the difficulties, amidst strict censorship laws of releasing and performing their music in their home country
listen here.
No One Knows About Persian Cats is released on Friday.
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February 2010
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ibrahim maalouf [wnyc].
franco-lebanese master trumpeter ibrahim maalouf visited brooklyn’s barbès. listen to the entire show here.
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kamal musallam and billy cobham [facebook]. →
kamal will be sharing news and updates via this facebook group on his upcoming collaboration with drummer bill cobham.
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January 2010
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December 2009
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October 2009
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jace clayton on ornamentalism [the national]. →
jace “considers the meeting of minds between two Iranian musicians who, working decades apart, both sought to produce genuinely Persian music with the electronic tools of the 20th-century avant-garde.” in the only english newspaper worth reading in the middle east.
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bbc checks in on the contemporary iranian music... →
beeb presenter behzad bolour chooses his selection of contemporary persian music with tracks from take it easy hospital, rana farhan and shahab tolouie.
September 2009
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zirzamin [iranian alternative music magazine] →
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misuc on facebook. →
misuc
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August 2009
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kronos quartet performing tashweesh by ramallah underground via @aswaattbasel on pitchfork tv. [floodplain on nonesuch].
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aziz maraka, mashrou3 leila, ressala [leka eka3]
leka eka3 is bringing together well established artists from the region’s growing alternative music scene. Bands that have been building their musical language and audience separately in each country will finally get the chance to meet and fuse their genres to blast a new experience.
July 2009
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ojooba ha [polhaee skakastah] →
a track off raks! raks! raks! 17 golden garage psych nuggets from the iranian 60s scene streams on WFMU’s The frow show with jesse. via the mire.
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bjork discovers omar souleyman. [npr] →
bjork guest djs for npr’s all things considered and raves about omar souleyman’s poetic collaborative freestyle mc’ing and the band’s two sytnths’ hi-energy crazy party style. they are streaming two of his tracks. ala the arabist.
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June 2009
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it may appear as though we’re morphing into the unofficial omar souleyman fan club website. but is that a bad thing? the sonar gig.
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May 2009
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April 2009
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omar souleyman. [dabke 2001] →
the wire are streaming two awesome ‘jihadi techno’ tracks by syrian legend omar souleyman.
The Narcicyst - P.H.A.T.W.A. music video.
March 2009
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February 2009
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mutamassik [doun doun / the crux] →
ommi on vocals. performed/produced by mutamassik at rocca almileda vox: v. hanna el qommos, a. trillo’ & m.c.
December 2008
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November 2008
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