damn i've never listened to jazeera nights before, it's outstanding
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
"nahy" from wenu wenu is such a jam
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
also new track, new album coming, and a tour
http://pitchfork.com/news/58990-omar-souleyman-teams-with-four-tet-modeselektor-black-lips-for-new-album-bahdeni-nami
03-26 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival03-27 Athens, GA - Slingshot Festival03-28 Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival05-21 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Obey Convention 805-22 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge05-23 Los Angeles, CA - Jewels Catch One05-30 Bristol, England - Colston Hall06-06 Copenhagen, Denmark - Distortion Festival06-12 Toronto, Ontario - Bestival Toronto06-26 Beuningen, Netherlands - Down The Rabbit Hole07-11 Trencin, Slovakia - Pohoda Festival07-16 Dour, Belgium - Dour Festival /
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/monkeytownrecords/omar-souleyman-enssa-el-aatab-prod-by-modeselektor/s-ghd5W guess it is not super new, came out a few weeks ago, it is very good imo
worth traveling up to NY to see him? srsly debating it now.
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
I would!
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I am really digging this new tune
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
ehhhhh tbh seeing him live was pretty underwhelming
although i did see him at a huge free late afternoon outdoor show, i would be willing to see him a 2nd time in a club setting
― gr8080, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
i've seen him three times and all of them at large outdoor spaces; i think his energy would be GREATLY improved at a small club like Poisson Rouge. I bet that'll be rocking
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
When I went to see him last year I hoped/expected to be able to see Rizan Sa'id do his magic on the synthesizer (as my friend did when he saw him a couple of years earlier) but it turned out there was 'just' someone who controlled a laptop from which the music was generated/streamed. Bit of a bummer, really. He's a great performer though.
― willem, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Rizan was at the gig i attended, but both were both dwarfed by the enormous stage they came nowhere near occupying
― gr8080, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
i missed him in Chicago last year but finally saw him at Big Ears last week and the crowd was so into it. it was a smallish space (not an outdoor festival) and everyone was dancing. like every single person except for the man next to me so i gently elbowed him away
my question: will someone please recommend me more music that sounds like "atabat"? iirc he didn't play any slow songs live because it probably would have killed the mood or caused someone to spontaneously combust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESh_qPZFLiI
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Wow, this new album. Can't put my finger on it but it's both super familiar yet a lot better than Wenu Wenu
― StanM, Sunday, 24 May 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
oh I didn't realise he had a new one, cool!
― xelab, Sunday, 24 May 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
what do you all think of bahdeni nemi?
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
seems less urgent than wenu wenu and especially the SF releases but i am enjoying it
who's heard the new one?
― frogbs, Monday, 12 June 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
"Atabat" from the first one came on in the car today, I'd forgotten what a jam that one is.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
hmmhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/17/syrian-musician-omar-souleyman-held-on-terrorism-charges-in-turkey
― StanM, Friday, 19 November 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
Terrible. Free Omar!
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 November 2021 12:22 (two years ago) link
yes
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 November 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
update! he's free - after being sent to "a detention center for people due to be deported"
https://ra.co/news/76422
― StanM, Friday, 19 November 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
now thats the news we wanted to hear!
also this:
He has lived in Turkey since the onset of the Syrian civil war, running, among other things, a free bakery in Urfa.
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
Still, just like in China, you can't become too popular without getting your chains rattled by the government every now and then, apparently. :-/
― StanM, Friday, 19 November 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link