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Woke up this morning hung over as hell
Feeling like somebody has poisoned the well
Knowing bad luck's coming round today
Someone's gonna have a big price to pay

Cause I dreamed of Muddy Water

Nothing here is as clear as it seems
There's something like a nightmare running through my dreams
Premonition came a cold empty killer
Hanging around like some eager grave filler

Taking issue t'tween the devil and me
Wondering what this curse will turn out to be
Wash so hard these blood stained hands
I'm trying to keep up with his evil demands

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Mississippi Blues and 5 other tracks available on itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/back-to-roots-ep/id1044227281

I am Caucasian but my great grand father was the first internationally recognized african american opera singer. During a european tour he met my great grandmother in Austria. They fell in love and spent two years together until he was forced to return to Boston. My grandmother was a product of this love. 
Until recently non of the descendants had contacted this family in America. 
In October 2013,  I worked up the courage to take the journey across the Atlantic and meet my African American family. This journey turned my world upside down. 

This reunion with my family lead me to find myself as an artist. 

I composed "Mississippi Blues" right after this reunion.

A year later, I decided to portray this quest to discover my African American roots, musically as well as visually.  
“Mississippi Blues” was filmed in Boston and New Orleans.

The video was directed by Marine van den Broek and was produced by Davaï Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEE0A_1_MEM

Mississippi Blues

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I Don't Dance

Conman Coming

Joe Jackson and Rickie Lee Jones - For No One

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The Cat Empire: Steal The Light

The Wanton Bishops, though a band by every definition of the word, is actually the vision for one very eclectic man – Nader Mansour. A cultural anomaly, considering the fact that he was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Nader as lead singer is the very epitome of a howling blues man. But throw in Nader’s psychedelic 60’s influences – the culture, literature and music, and a heavy dose of meditative Middle-Eastern Tarab, and you’ve got a wicked brew that the world has never seen or tasted prior. Supported by his guitar wielding comrades-in-arms, Eddy Ghossein and Salim Naffah, and his musical mercenary friends on bass and drums, Nader’s vision for The Wanton Bishops is now complete.
 
Digging into the soul of the music, Nader’s influences range from the blues of RL Burnside and Muddy Waters, to the rock of Led Zeppelin and Hendrix, going through the psychedelic sounds of The Doors, and The Velvet Underground, into the Tarab of Sabah Fakhri, Mohammad Kheiri, Oum Kolsoum and Asmahan. He creates music that takes the listener head first into wailing harmonicas, raw cat calls, contemplative Mawwals, psychedelic atmospherics and stomping garage-rock guitar riffs. Nader’s creative sidekick Eddy Ghossein is an anglophilic guitarist with a passion for classic and contemporary British sounds and harmonies. Under the guidance of Lebanese underground genius producer Fadi Tabbal, and with Eddy’s influence, Nader’s songs emerged from the Delta swamps and the Lebanese mountains into a musical landscape with a blues foundation and a modern rock twist, a space currently inhabited by bands like The Black Keys and The White Stripes. Yet in the case of The Wanton Bishops, their music oozes an original flavor that is unmistakably an animal from a far off exotic land.
 
The Wanton Bishops debut album, Sleep With The Lights On, won the Beirut band accolades and opportunities. MTV describing the album as “suspended between disillusionment and exultation, their visceral sounds echo the soul of their crumbling city,” with Rolling Stone painting an equally colorful critique, writing “The Wanton Bishops are a thrilling rush of raw blues and booze soaked indie rock, reminiscent of The Black Keys, but with a ramshackle sensibility all their own.” The band journey from Lebanon to perform festivals and club shows around the world, to include support opportunities with legendary acts The Who, Guns N’ Roses, and even Lana Del Rey.
 
In 2015 Nader expanded the band’s musical capabilities by adding other key players to the family, guitarist Salim Naffah (Loopstache) and drummer Pascal Semerdjian (Postcards) all while calling on Fadi Tabbal (Tunefork Studios) as a producer once more. A longtime friend of the band, Salim added a unique modern and dreamy musical component to Nader’s writing process, while Pascal brought in depth on drums as well as quirky patterns. To quote Nader, The Wanton Bishops are now a ‘free floating polyamorous relationship I share with a bunch of unbelievable human beings and musicians, Eddy, Salim, Pascal, bass player Antonio and sometimes others’ adding that the new music exudes ‘psychedelic, alternative-rock elements dabbled with flavours from the Middle East.’ Says Nader, ‘We are taking our blues induced rock and roll down an ethnic-electronic highway. We’re finally getting to the core of the music we want to create, and that core is scarily confused, much like our own identity as Lebanese people living in Beirut, that eternal cultural crossroad.’
 
After hitting European festivals all summer, to include Glastonbury, Nova Rock, and Solidays, the band will be touring worldwide throughout the winter of 2016/2017 in support of their new EP 'NOWHERE EVERYWHERE.' 

Stay tuned…

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