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Let Us Avoid P & J Maddnesss Here by Discussing the Sublime Frequencies Record LabelMore Sublime Frequencies
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:38 (8 years ago) Permalink
REVIVE ! What are the best of these ?
I have the Sumatra comps which I can vouch for. Group Inerane is mind blowing, end of story. The radio transmissions are not my bag but I have friends who dig a couple of these. Some of the odd disco stuff is essential if that is your thing. This label has put out so much that a S/D thread like this one is very useful.
― oscar, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
for anyone in the uk who has a chance to go to the group doueh / omar souleyman tour - go! do not miss it. you'll regret it forever. absolutely astonishing.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 23 May 2009 13:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
so jealous :( I just grabbed the Omar Suleyman LP last night, and it's just as good as I could hope for. I might like it even more than the new Group Doueh record!
― ian, Saturday, 23 May 2009 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
so jealous :(
Same here!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 May 2009 14:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Saw the tour last night in Glasgow and it was great fun. Syrian party bangers indeed!
Just starting work on some photos now...
Omar Souleyman
Sublime Frequencies Tour @ Stereo, Glasgow
― krakow, Saturday, 23 May 2009 19:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Are those vinyl only limited releases?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
1500 copies.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
London sold out! Arse.
― Matt #2, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
tell me you're lying! :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
I musta just scraped in before they sold out. Hope the crowd gets into it.
― dad (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 25 May 2009 12:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
More self-promotion - finished up my photos from the Glasgow show now: Sublime Frequencies Tour @ Stereo, Glasgow
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Group Doueh
― krakow, Thursday, 28 May 2009 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
You can see why I'm a photographer and not a writer!
― krakow, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, you're making the Americans very, very jealous!
― ian, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Are you talking about that song "I cuddle myself"? Song is awesome.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
x post. that last track on the prot-rai is my fave too.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
"despite everything" tugs at my lil heartstrings
― 69, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Great pics krakow. They're playing over here next week, hope I'm able to go.
― willem, Friday, 29 May 2009 09:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
xposts was there any actual dabke at the gig?
― wilter, Friday, 29 May 2009 09:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
$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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
whoa. that is a pretty intense clip. he definitely had sex with all those ladies afterwards.
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait there's an Aquarius in Denver?
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha, no, I wish. Just on their website ...
― tylerw, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
oic
$27 from Forced Exposure but they ship UPS which is $4 minimum
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
the synths on that record^ are awesome. also the guitar playing, duh.
― mizzell, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna is fucking awesome.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
so is that Omar Khorshid record we were speculating about upthread.
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
That is, but Ecstatic Music is even better.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sublime Frequencies groups always seem to skip my part of the world (Washington DC area)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
where can i find their tour dates?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
A live clip from Paris, as a trailer for the EU tour...
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
It is great!
― Trip Maker, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's so great!
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
not actually on sublime frequencies but the recent Omara "Bombino" Moctar album is pretty great.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 September 2012 21:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah i heard a lil of this, it sounds neat. he's touring maybe?
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 7 September 2012 22:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (3 months ago) Permalink