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Oh Yeah Habibi: ten years and up-to-date

If you look up the word ‘arabicana’ you find a music genre and its inventors; NO blues. Even after ten years the band that combines Oriëntal roots music and American folk blues is still unique in the world. On the new album Oh Yeah Habibi, NO blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta.

Even though the band has been together for ten years, the new album Oh Yeah Habibi sounds direct and fresh like a debut album. U’d player Haytham Safia: “We went back to the core of guitar, u’d, double bass and percussion.” Different from the previous albums, NO blues chooses to use current events as topics for their songs. Songs like Exodus and World Keeps Turning refer to people that seek refuge and Two Trains and Gods Move refer to religious themes.”It struck us that our music seemed to have a different energy after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo”, says bassist Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen. “NO blues has always been a political statement in music, we had to follow that up with our lyrics. Guitarist Ad van Meurs: ”We’ve never been a political band, but we don’t look the other way.”

Oh Yeah Habibi is more on topic than previous NO blues albums and the critically acclaimed arabicana from this Dutch based top team that has been working together for ten years, still has great impact. In twelve new studio tracks the band reaches a next level in their musical embrace between east and west.

01 Into The Caravan

Live @ The Barbican London
Dhafer Youssef: Oud, Vocals, Electronics
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Vocals, Electronics
Eivind Aarset: Guitar, Electronics
Audun Erlien: Bass, Electronics
Rune Arnesen: Drums, Electronics

More about Divine Shadows Album:
...After these unlikely encounters between Oud and electronic music (Electric Sufi), Dhafer Youssef sets himself a new challenge which consisted in introducing more string instruments to his creative universe. This surrealist equation resolved with the release of “Divine Shadows” in 2005. The sound is resolutely thrilling without losing its ethereal aspect. Spiritualism is asserted manifesting itself without any complex and far from stereotypes. The album was marked by the arrival of Arve Henriksen and Marilyn Mazur together with the road companions Eivind Aarset, Audun Erlien, Rune Arnesen. After a first nomination for the BBC awards for world music in 2003, “Divine Shadows” will bring him a new nomination in 2006... more http://www.dhaferyoussef.com/#/music



03 - Dhafer Youssef Wind&Shadows Live @ Barbican

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