Pure dabke power jams by Kurdish party starter Omar Souleyman - rejoining Mad Decent for his first album in five years
Shades-on don Omar Souleyman leaves no body still with 5th studio album ‘Erbil’. Named for the Iraqi city he currently resides in, ‘Erbil’ marks a joyous return to the fray following a difficult time, when he was imprisoned in Turkey on charges that were never held up. Iraq provided sanctuary for Souleyman, prompting this glorious 8 song reprisal of his renowned style, commanding the mic over furnace blast keyboard trills by Hasan Jamo Alo that marry the energy of ‘90s rave techno with traditional Arabic microtonal melodies. You know the steez by now, and boy does this one deliver.
Front to back Souleyman and band barely take their foot off the accelerator, rousing knees up with untrammelled force between the urgency of ‘Yal Harak Qalbe’ and the melancholic but searing shut down of ‘Allishiryan’. There’s no sign of the mawwal type prayers that temper other Souleyman albums here, preferring an all out party pressure that’s got us looking for brothers and sisters to shoulder dance with.
There’s a mad standout in the mid-tempo, new beat-adjacent thrum of ‘Ma Andi Gherak Mahbuub’ with its cyberpunk synth intro, and likewise the Arabic stallion horsepower hoof of ‘Maet Ala Shoftha’, while making room for more atmospheric romance in the ‘Thawb Alzifah’, and a form of dabke trance in ‘Rahat Al Chant Ymme’. Basically, if you have a function to soundtrack this summer, ‘Erbil’ is the one. As Scooter once put it; energy, energy!!!
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Pure dabke power jams by Kurdish party starter Omar Souleyman - rejoining Mad Decent for his first album in five years
Shades-on don Omar Souleyman leaves no body still with 5th studio album ‘Erbil’. Named for the Iraqi city he currently resides in, ‘Erbil’ marks a joyous return to the fray following a difficult time, when he was imprisoned in Turkey on charges that were never held up. Iraq provided sanctuary for Souleyman, prompting this glorious 8 song reprisal of his renowned style, commanding the mic over furnace blast keyboard trills by Hasan Jamo Alo that marry the energy of ‘90s rave techno with traditional Arabic microtonal melodies. You know the steez by now, and boy does this one deliver.
Front to back Souleyman and band barely take their foot off the accelerator, rousing knees up with untrammelled force between the urgency of ‘Yal Harak Qalbe’ and the melancholic but searing shut down of ‘Allishiryan’. There’s no sign of the mawwal type prayers that temper other Souleyman albums here, preferring an all out party pressure that’s got us looking for brothers and sisters to shoulder dance with.
There’s a mad standout in the mid-tempo, new beat-adjacent thrum of ‘Ma Andi Gherak Mahbuub’ with its cyberpunk synth intro, and likewise the Arabic stallion horsepower hoof of ‘Maet Ala Shoftha’, while making room for more atmospheric romance in the ‘Thawb Alzifah’, and a form of dabke trance in ‘Rahat Al Chant Ymme’. Basically, if you have a function to soundtrack this summer, ‘Erbil’ is the one. As Scooter once put it; energy, energy!!!
Pure dabke power jams by Kurdish party starter Omar Souleyman - rejoining Mad Decent for his first album in five years
Shades-on don Omar Souleyman leaves no body still with 5th studio album ‘Erbil’. Named for the Iraqi city he currently resides in, ‘Erbil’ marks a joyous return to the fray following a difficult time, when he was imprisoned in Turkey on charges that were never held up. Iraq provided sanctuary for Souleyman, prompting this glorious 8 song reprisal of his renowned style, commanding the mic over furnace blast keyboard trills by Hasan Jamo Alo that marry the energy of ‘90s rave techno with traditional Arabic microtonal melodies. You know the steez by now, and boy does this one deliver.
Front to back Souleyman and band barely take their foot off the accelerator, rousing knees up with untrammelled force between the urgency of ‘Yal Harak Qalbe’ and the melancholic but searing shut down of ‘Allishiryan’. There’s no sign of the mawwal type prayers that temper other Souleyman albums here, preferring an all out party pressure that’s got us looking for brothers and sisters to shoulder dance with.
There’s a mad standout in the mid-tempo, new beat-adjacent thrum of ‘Ma Andi Gherak Mahbuub’ with its cyberpunk synth intro, and likewise the Arabic stallion horsepower hoof of ‘Maet Ala Shoftha’, while making room for more atmospheric romance in the ‘Thawb Alzifah’, and a form of dabke trance in ‘Rahat Al Chant Ymme’. Basically, if you have a function to soundtrack this summer, ‘Erbil’ is the one. As Scooter once put it; energy, energy!!!
Pure dabke power jams by Kurdish party starter Omar Souleyman - rejoining Mad Decent for his first album in five years
Shades-on don Omar Souleyman leaves no body still with 5th studio album ‘Erbil’. Named for the Iraqi city he currently resides in, ‘Erbil’ marks a joyous return to the fray following a difficult time, when he was imprisoned in Turkey on charges that were never held up. Iraq provided sanctuary for Souleyman, prompting this glorious 8 song reprisal of his renowned style, commanding the mic over furnace blast keyboard trills by Hasan Jamo Alo that marry the energy of ‘90s rave techno with traditional Arabic microtonal melodies. You know the steez by now, and boy does this one deliver.
Front to back Souleyman and band barely take their foot off the accelerator, rousing knees up with untrammelled force between the urgency of ‘Yal Harak Qalbe’ and the melancholic but searing shut down of ‘Allishiryan’. There’s no sign of the mawwal type prayers that temper other Souleyman albums here, preferring an all out party pressure that’s got us looking for brothers and sisters to shoulder dance with.
There’s a mad standout in the mid-tempo, new beat-adjacent thrum of ‘Ma Andi Gherak Mahbuub’ with its cyberpunk synth intro, and likewise the Arabic stallion horsepower hoof of ‘Maet Ala Shoftha’, while making room for more atmospheric romance in the ‘Thawb Alzifah’, and a form of dabke trance in ‘Rahat Al Chant Ymme’. Basically, if you have a function to soundtrack this summer, ‘Erbil’ is the one. As Scooter once put it; energy, energy!!!