Abdel Halim Hafez – Mawood {1971}
I haven’t been so touched by music for a long time. It is really strange how secluded the popularity of certain music sometimes is, how come I’ve never heard of Abdel Halim Hafez before? Just imagine: when...
I haven’t been so touched by music for a long time. It is really strange how secluded the popularity of certain music sometimes is, how come I’ve never heard of Abdel Halim Hafez before? Just imagine: when...
The project Niagara was initiated by Klaus Weiss, a internationally admired German Jazz drummer. I know his work from the track Survivor from his classic Library Disco/Funk album Time Singals from 1978. For Niagara, he gathered...
Franco Battiato is an internationally known Italian composer, musician, filmmaker and painter. In his early days in the 1960s he had some success collaborating with the psych/prog outfit Osage Tribe that played an interesting...
The band Kobza from Ukraine play a charming mix of traditional folk music and soft psychedelic rock with a flair that reminds me of French movie soundtracks, exemplary in this song “Zajczyk” from 1971.
This groovy funky reggae track with Morricone-style harp and fuzzy guitars from 1971 is by the French studio project “The Progressive Seekers of the Blue Grass Independant Community” (sic). The two producers of the album...
Powerful track from the soundtrack of the experimental movie classic Throw away your books, rally in the streets! by director Shûji Terayama. The music is by Tokyo Kid Brothers and Tenjo Sajiki as far...
Amazing laid-back Latin Psychedelia with a Cumbia/reggae vibe and fuzz guitar, love it.