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.

12 Gods Move

11 Osama Blues

10 The Moment

09 Oh Yeah Habibi

08 Sudan

07 The World Keeps Turning

06 Exodus

05 Eshasa

04 Two Trains

03 Doubt

02 Imta

01 Into The Caravan

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 Oriental roots music and American folk blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta. 

The best of ten years NO blues contains the highlights of a full decade of the unique blend of music called Arabicana. This limited edition vinyl records was released world wide on Record Store Day 2016 and is for sale in the record store or at shows. 

10 Last Train To Haifa (live)

09 Ya Dunya

08 The River Wild

07 Sawt (The Voice)

06 Black Cadillac

05 Oh Yeah Habibi

04 Le

03 Ommi

02 Farewell Shalabiye

01 Lumen

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.

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