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.

07 The World Keeps Turning

أنا لا خيالي ظُلمة.. ولا أنا زاهد في دير 
أنا لي عيوني شرفة ترويلي كل الويل 

أنا ما ساكن في بيت.. أنا ما زاهد في دير 
رحالة رحالة رحالة..

أنا في فؤادي غربة ترويها سنين الليل 
أخطي لحالي غابة واسأل أبواب الليل 
أنا في فؤادي وردة منسية بِـ وادي الليل 
لأحميها أنا بين جبال وأسقيها بحور الطيف

أنا ما ساكن في بيت.. أنا ما زاهد في دير 
رحالة رحالة رحالة.. 

اسامي زي اسراب الحمام.. اسامي ترويها نجوم الليل
اسامي زي اسراب الحمام.. Bombay سلام هآه هآآه.. Bombay سلام هآه هآآه

أنا ما ساكن في بيت.. أنا ما زاهد في دير
رحالة رحالة رحالة..

اسامي زي اسراب الحمام، أسامي ترويها نجوم الليل 
اسامي زي أسراب الحمام.. Bombay سلام  هآه هآآه.. Bombay سلام هآه هآآه

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