misuc: Archive

misuc

April 2010

2 posts

homeland hip hop iii @SouthpawBK feat... →

npr on playing heavy metal in baghdad with...

March 2010

6 posts

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.

dj mutamassik classic. bidoun one.

at sxsw? seek out rainbow arabia. kabuki...

February 2010

3 posts

ibrahim maalouf [wnyc].

franco-lebanese master trumpeter ibrahim maalouf visited brooklyn’s barbès. listen to the entire show here. ]]>

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.

reham returns rawer. no excuse.

January 2010

3 posts

l’amour de moi [jane birkin] arabesque.

December 2009

1 post

raksit leila [mashrou’ leila]. fresh off the...

October 2009

2 posts

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.

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

6 posts

zirzamin [iranian alternative music magazine] →

misuc on facebook. →

turbulent off the soliloquy lp. [sussandeyhim]

doosh doosh. lyrics and music by ali akbar sheida...

August 2009

2 posts

kronos quartet performing tashweesh by ramallah underground via @aswaattbasel on pitchfork tv. [floodplain on nonesuch].

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

10 posts

uns [anouar brahem, john surman, dave holland]....

candle and the moth [sussan deyhim / bill...

ya bani insane. [nass el ghiwane]. moroccan...

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.

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.

gentle song of resistance. reham samerai [amir...

jardin d’hiver. [mainstream ensemble]. je...

June 2009

5 posts

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.

yazan al rousan and autostrad. galli ilrukhas...

leila arab maida vale session [gilles peterson...

mutamassik that which death cannot destroy out...

May 2009

3 posts

palestinian [israeli] kamilia jubran’s kaifa...

April 2009

2 posts

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

1 post

February 2009

1 post

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

1 post

November 2008

7 posts

glass mughal [uzbekistani bizarre and souk]....

gasha mewali [dirty zeyda]. kareem lotfy.