Tag: Arabic
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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RC 349: England’s Screaming
It’s coming home, coming home, Delta’s coming home…. As England are in the Euro final (something that was days away from when I recorded this last Saturday), I break my rule about always releasing a podcast at 9am on a weekday and release it on a Saturday as I think this needs to be out…
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RIP Elias Rahbani
Sadly just heard the very gifted Lebanese composer Elias Rahbani has died of COVID-19. I suspect not many in the west have heard of him unless like me they have a penchant for Arabic funk/disco/psych verging on prog – he covers all of these bases! As of hearing of his death, three of his tunes…
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…