tell me you're lying! :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard that London and Bristol sold out too. It was certainly busy with us, though not sold out.
― krakow, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've been pointlessly putting off buying tickets for London for the last month. Finally got around to sorting it out and it's all gone. Really pissed off, quite frankly. Listening to a cd of SF stuff my friend who's got tickets gave me doesn't really help. Maybe on the door.
― Stryder's on the Orme (j.o.n.a), Sunday, 24 May 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I musta just scraped in before they sold out. Hope the crowd gets into it.
― dad (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 25 May 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
More self-promotion - finished up my photos from the Glasgow show now: Sublime Frequencies Tour @ Stereo, Glasgow
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v6/p246339584-2.jpg
Omar Souleyman
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v6/p256819952-2.jpgp
Group Doueh
― krakow, Thursday, 28 May 2009 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice photos!Tell us more about the gig.
(I was thinking of going to the London one, but never mind.)
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought that the beats and some of the keyboard stuff was a bit dubious (euro disco?) and it was a shame that there wasn't more live instrument stuff, but Omar Souleyman in particular created such a great party atmosphere, with everyone dancing and clapping along, and they seemed to be having such a good time onstage, that it was a wonderful experience nontheless. Not as mind-blowing as I personally expected, but a great fun night out. The Sublime Frequencies DJs played some awesome more psych type tunes, which was very nice.
Thanks for the compliment too.
― krakow, Thursday, 28 May 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing to say about group doueh?
omar souleyman was definitely the party act and was great fun but for midblowing nmusic, group doueh stole the show for me. male / female vox, some minimal percussion, keyboards and then salmou baamar's guitar playing which i would rate in the top 5 best i have ever heard. he was playing a modified strat going through some sort of filter bank and it was thee definition of hypno psyche guitar playing. really breathtaking. it differed quite significantly from the records in that the keyboard player was triggering quite hefty sounding drum machine percussion loops. at first i wasn't sure about these and thought they had done this to slightly cater for a european audience but it really started to work a couple of songs in. this was enhanced no end when halima jakani started dancing about at the front of the stage. when halima and bashiri sang together i had shivers down my spine. the last song they did was simply divine. a long, hypnotic dance track that amadou and mariam would no doubt kill for and that i would also kill to have a recording of. the audience response to all this was nothing short of ecstatic.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 28 May 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
You can see why I'm a photographer and not a writer!
― krakow, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I have heard good things about the new Doueh record, wish I could see this in person.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, you're making the Americans very, very jealous!
― ian, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
So great you guys got to see Omar Souleyman! I bought the recent Sublime Frequencies "70's Proto-Rai Underground" comp. Excellent stuff but only 42 minutes of material and all of it leaning heavily on the horn-led Rai stuff with one increeeedible guitar-led track at the very end that just acts as a tease. Want more of the phased out guitar Rai.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you talking about that song "I cuddle myself"? Song is awesome.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
New Doueh record is awesome. The 20 minute track that occupies the whole second side is the best track of theirs I've heard.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
x post. that last track on the prot-rai is my fave too.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"despite everything" tugs at my lil heartstrings
― 69, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
oh my god, thanks dudes for mentioning the proto-rai thing. it is kickin my ass over here.
― i'm too hardcore to be bourgeois (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 29 May 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Great pics krakow. They're playing over here next week, hope I'm able to go.
― willem, Friday, 29 May 2009 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
xposts was there any actual dabke at the gig?
― wilter, Friday, 29 May 2009 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
doueh on brian turner's show this tuesday y'all -http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT
― corps of discovery (schlump), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a miniature two-man dabke at times, courtesy of two entourage dudes filming from the side who'd occasionally get excited and bust out some moves. The crowd loved it. And that saz player was probably the best I've seen. He ain't facing much competition though.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Sublime Frequencies cofounder Hisham Mayet is giving a talk in Asheville, North Carolina, this weekend as part of Harvest Records' Transfigurations Festival: http://harvest-records.com/trans_mission.html
Little, ol' Asheville also has a new internet radio station, and it's going to simulcast the talk. Very cool!
http://www.ashevillefm.org/
(I usually don't push stuff on ilm, but this is some cool stuff.)
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody got this Omar Khorsid 2LP thing yet? sounds intriguing -- I really liked Richard BIshop's Freak of Araby album, and I guess this is one of the big influences?
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't have it but I sure was checking it out in the FE update yesterday. pretty reasonably priced for a SF 2LP.
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
$30 over at Aquarius -- thinking about getting it, though I might wait for the CD ... I just don't have a good vinyl set up these days.
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty tempted to get that, even though I still live in a primitive world where $30 is a ridiculous sum of money for vinyl. But I've heard a Khorshid album in the past and it was pretty awesome stuff, had a twangy surfy guitar sound and some synthesizer IIRC.
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxNjCVchtww
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa. that is a pretty intense clip. he definitely had sex with all those ladies afterwards.
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
wait there's an Aquarius in Denver?
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, no, I wish. Just on their website ...
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oic
$27 from Forced Exposure but they ship UPS which is $4 minimum
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, probably going to just buy this ... in the meantime: http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/2010/02/omar-khorshid-rhythms-from-orient.html
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the synths on that record^ are awesome. also the guitar playing, duh.
― mizzell, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna is fucking awesome.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
so is that Omar Khorshid record we were speculating about upthread.
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
That is, but Ecstatic Music is even better.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Sublime Frequencies collaborator Mark Gergis has started his own label, Sham Palace. The first release on Sham Palace will be a double LP by Omar Souleyman, titled Leh Jani, a 30 minute version of Souleyman's signature track originally released on cassette in Syria.
Gergis says: "I've started the label in order to be able to share more of this mountain of sounds and images I've been accumulating from around the world for almost two decades." As well as vintage releases, Sham Palace will include "later-period music, long-form pieces harvested from international cassettes, electronic folk pop and even some contemporary artists", primarily from the Middle East and South East Asia.
Gergis has worked on Cambodian Cassette Archives, Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq, plus Omar Souleyman releases, and will continue to work with Sublime Frequencies as well as on Sham Palace. Leh Jani will be released on 22 November, and Souleyman tours Europe in December.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 November 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone caught group inerane playing, anywhere? they're here in a month or so & i am tentatively psyched
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Sublime Frequencies groups always seem to skip my part of the world (Washington DC area)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
where can i find their tour dates?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
it is maybe compensation that you guys get to live in the best place to catch ethiopian acts outside of or possibly even inside of ethiopia, though, rightxp
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/tour/inerane.html europe only atm amateurist
seeing them in glasgow w flower/corsano as support, really great dbl bill
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 7 November 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
I do not take advantage enough of the opportunity to hear Ethiopian acts in DC. With the huge Ethiopian population, many of the restaurants feature local Ethiopian performers late in the evening after they stop serving food; and touring Ethiopian acts come here and play at out of the way halls. But none of the Ethiopian music (either touring acts or locals) is marketed to a crossover audience (you need to find flyers or pick up a local Ethiopian paper that is in Ahramaic).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i think i only know about those shows from ILX, so maybe at least some stuff gets wider publicity? i ate at a great ethiopian place the one time i was in DC, having that kinda thing locally/abundantly is a blessing, though i'm sure it's difficult if the performance stuff is off the radar. it can generally be a hard thing to get the most out of your city.
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Really looking forward to the Glasgow show with Flower/Corsano as well - it could be rather special!
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
A live clip from Paris, as a trailer for the EU tour...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvcP_h96xP8
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Mark Gergis of Sublime Frequencies just put out a record on bandcamp that I think is pretty cool. Check it out!
http://neungphak.bandcamp.com/album/2
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Only recently heard that the Omar Khorshid compi was out on cd. Assuming it must be down to the reissue from last year being vinyl only that I didn't get it.Been looking for more material by him since I picked up the With Love vol 2 lp from my local 2nd hand record shop in the late 80s.When I started buying mail order I looked him up and could only find the tribute to lps on cd so have his Tribute to Farid El-attrache which does have a couple of nice tunes but nothing as fierce as on the original album I picked up.So looking forward to getting this.
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
It is great!
― Trip Maker, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
It's so great!
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
not actually on sublime frequencies but the recent Omara "Bombino" Moctar album is pretty great.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 September 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i heard a lil of this, it sounds neat. he's touring maybe?
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 7 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, he's in the US right now looks like. http://www.cumbancha.com/events/bombinoif i didn't have "responsibilities" i'd drive down to taos for the show!
― tylerw, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Some talk about him on the Rolling World Music thread. His recent free appearance at the Kennedy Center can be video streamed
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M5149&type=A
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
For NY people, there is a series of Sublime Frequencies documentaries and related films beginning tonite at BAM and running for the next three Mondays.
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/saharan-frequencies
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/13623-mark-gergis-interview-sublime-frequencies-dabke-syria
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Lots of s-f stuff I still need to check out
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Doing that ^ feature lost me an 0mar S0uleyman feature. True story.
― Doran, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
"lost me an 0mar S0uleyman interview" even.
― Doran, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Why, if I may ask?
― Addison Doug (Matt #2), Saturday, 19 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
There was some objection to the very mild and polite criticism of VVenu VVenu is the official line but I get the impression that is our relationship done with (we interviewed him very 'early on' [in UK terms] and have promoted gigs for him etc). There's still a bit of fall out going on but I will have the full story later on when some ruffled feathers have been smoothed and some stuff has been corroborated (I think it's worth talking about). There's absolutely no criticism of D0mino or SF from me though (SubFreq especially... I'm a big, big fan of what they do) - it's possibly more to do with the kind of parties who can glom onto international musicians behind the scenes when they start making it big in different territories - especially when there are language and cultural differences that can be played upon. It's frustrating for us as obviously financially we'd be much better off doing buzzfeed style lists or interviewing Dj@ngo DJ@ngo... no one's paying their rent or food bills by doing loads of features on dabke, choubi and Chaabi for online publications. It's just what we like writing about. So it's not like we're playing some kind of bullish build 'em up/knock 'em down game with him but likewise no one's getting kid glove treatment off us either... I like VVenu VVenu but it's still relatively marginal music at the end of the day despite the big name producer... [sorry about the coffee fueled, non sequitur laden, influenza influenced and vague answer]
― Doran, Saturday, 19 October 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
That reaction to Gergis' criticism is unfortunate.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
Hopefully Souleyman's current label will get past that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
http://brownbook.me/sublime-frequencies/
nice profile of label co-owner Hisham and look at his home and the stuff in it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
thanks, bookmarking.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
Really regretting not picking up certain SF releases on vinyl. Surely they'd be worth repressing?
― Position Position, Monday, 9 June 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
Yep
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 June 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
thai country groove from isan is awesome!
― marcos, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Had never heard of this release till now
Indian Talking Machine is a 244-page book with two CDs. Containing over 300 photographs of Indian 78rpm record collections, collectors, and ephemera. A personal take on the vast worlds of Indian music and the intricacies of collecting sound. Indian Talking Machine is the result of nearly a year in India photographing record collections, interviewing collectors, and visiting archives and record markets: photographs of shelves groaning under the weight of unimaginable titles, beautiful label and sleeve designs from long gone eras, wind up talking machines, crammed antique shops, forgotten artists, and more that somehow survived (often barely survived) the difficult "archival" issues of India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=encQfGLE4io
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 February 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
jeez that looks amazing. not even very pricey either! $36 at forced exposure (though it's out of stock at the moment). http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/millis-robert-indian-talking-machine-78-rpm-record-and-gramophone-co-2cd-book/SF.099CD.html
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 February 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
same price and in stock at amazong if like me you have zero moral backbone
― adam, Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Friday October 13--Alan Bishop as Alvarius B (Sun City Girls guitarist plays outsider folk w/ Egyptian influences) solo and does a Q & a before movie doc “Invisible Hands” a documentary film about Bishop & his band, Invisible Hands, one of two of his Egypt based groups) @ 7:30 @ Lost Origins Gallery in Washington DC
Saturday October 14- Dwarves of East Agouza ( Cairo based w/ Alan Bishop from Sun City Girls & Maurice Louca & Sam Shalabi) , Deakin & Geologist ( of Animal Collective), Jenny Moon Tucker @ Rhizome in DC
Mon. Oct 16- Baba Commandant and Mandingo band (Sublime Frequencies label band) @ 6 pm @ the Mt Pleasant Library (Burkina Faso afrobeat) in Washington DC
“Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway” 2005 film about street musicians in Marrakesh, Morocco plaza by Hisham Mayet w/ a q & a w/Sublime Frequencies label head & director Mayet and musician Alan Bishop @ 7:30 @ Lost Origins
Fri. October 20-Dwarfs of East Agouza (Alan Bishop from Sun City Girls) with Deakin + Geologist, @, and Androgynous Bulge @ The Compound, 2239 Kirk Avenue in Baltimore
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 October 2023 22:09 (eight months ago) link
Hisham Mayet of Sublime is the road manager for current Baba Commandant tour. He directed the Musical Brotherhoods film doc that is showing tonight . He told me on the phone that he has done some filming in Burkina Faso, but he's not ready yet to make it into a movie or audio project yet.
The Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway” 2005 film dvd is sold out. I think the earlier film Mayet filmed at the Jemaa el-Fnaa is also unavailable.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
Pretty interesting hearing them talk tonight.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 04:52 (seven months ago) link
They pull down videos people post of their stuff on YouTube ( and are annoyed by YouTube profiting) but they’re ok with folks finding their stuff via more obscure download sites
Mayet has done some filming in Burkina Faso. Is going to Colombia in February to see Son Palenque and maybe film them
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 14:13 (seven months ago) link
A recent Sublime F release, from India , Madhuvanti Pal instrumental effort on the rudra veena. Traditional sounds with a psychedelic feel
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/madhuvanti-pal-the-holy-mother-plays-the-rudra-veena
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:42 (seven months ago) link
thanks for the revive, I have not been keeping up with this label at all and that link sounds fantastic
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:44 (seven months ago) link
20th anniversary Sublime Frequencies gig in Queens NY October 18 with Baba Commandant band from Burkina Faso and Dwarfs of East Agouza ( Egypt based ) . Both Sublime F founders Bishop and Hayet will be there
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
Dwarfs of East Agouza are so good, but I raved about BabaC live show on the AfroPop thread, what a killer lineup. Paul Major DJing as well!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:40 (seven months ago) link
I have mentioned Baba on global whirled African bands and more thread. Gonna see Dwarfs of East Agouza tomorrow night
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 October 2023 14:34 (seven months ago) link
Would have loved to see Baba Commandant, just finally picked up their most recent album and absolutely loving it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
Because US promoter of Baba C tour in US is Washington DC based they have done a bunch of gigs locally including free ones at a park and one at lunchtime at a library
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 October 2023 15:08 (seven months ago) link
Saw the Dwarfs of East Agouza last night. Good Egypt meets motorik meets Velvets groove at times. But also distorted vocals, falsetto ones & some improv noisy sax solos.
Alan has also done solo gigs on this tour, and has solo albums out. I haven’t heard him solo live or recorded yet.
Found out that the Bishop brothers are related to Washington DC rockabilly and honkytonk guitarist Ratso who has played with Kinky Friedman and Tex Rubinowitz.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:57 (seven months ago) link
What type of venue did you see Dwarfs of East Agouza? I saw them in a kind of stale setting in Europe this spring and it didn’t seem quite right.
― bbq, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:31 (seven months ago) link
I saw them in a former car repair shop looking place, where you had to enter in from a hard to find entrance in back in an area of Baltimore with warehouses and just a liquor store nearby selling single cheap beers. The crowd was standing and some dancing and enthusiastic. Maybe some were there to see the members of Animal Collective (Deakin & Geologist) who opened, but they mostly stuck around for Dwarfs. Plus since Baltimore gets less events than DC, I think that helped draw more people too. Ian Nagoski who runs Canary Records was there, Tonal Park Studio in Takoma , MD guy too
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:24 (seven months ago) link
https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/store
Some items only available in mp3, but they have vinyl, cd, and dvds for some still
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:35 (seven months ago) link
wtfffffff
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0HuZH0P1mL/
i'm gutted. one of the best shows i've seen in years.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 November 2023 00:38 (six months ago) link
Yep, damn malaria . RIP Baba Commandant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:21 (six months ago) link
Cool new Egyptian music release by The Handover on Sublime Frequencies
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/the-handover
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:06 (two months ago) link