Just taking a break from stoner rock for a bit to announce the Yemenese oud master Abdulatif Yagoub is in town for a gig tonight. I’ve written about them a few times and I’ve also helped secure a show here, Yagoub is a true artist and it’d be a pleasure to watch him perform with Smadj & Mehdi from Duoud

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Live @ Tokyu Bunkamura Theater Cocoon (3rd Oct ‘06) by Smashing Mag
Another essential middle-eastern dub & electronic fusion album you’ve got to own is a joint project by DuOud & Abdulatif Yagoub. DuOud is an obvious play on “duo oud”, and consists of French Musicians Mehdi Habbab (Algeria) and Jean-Pierre Smadj (Tunisia) who [...]

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Brothers & Sisters, if there’s one name who’s constantly been rising on my last.fm charts for the past few months, it must be Fedayi Pacha. If you’ve been following us since 2005, you’ll remember that I loved his previous album as well, but this time it’s become a sweet addiction, even to the point of [...]

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Wadi Rum, Jordan
Melting. That’s how we feel in Istanbul right now. The weather’s supposed to go 5 degrees hotter in the coming days thanks to desert winds from Africa, combine it with Istanbul’s world renowned humidity and you get the inspiration for today’s middle eastern sounds with suitable instruments like kanun and oud.
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Porest is a one-man collage terrorist from Oakland, CA aka Mark Gergis. This is his fourth album and I’m really curious about his past work and most of the stuff from this small label called Abduction. Well, to put it easily, Porest is a huge melting pot of different influences like Middle East, spoken parts [...]

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