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Die musikalische Überwindung von Barrieren zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern - hier vertreten durch das Projekt 'Boogie Balagan'.

BARRIER-BREAKING ROCK'N ROLL 'BOOGIE BALAGAN' BLENDS MIDDLE EASTERN VIBES WITH EXHILARATING ROCK'N ROLL TO CONVEY THEIR MESSAGE OF PEACE AND BREAK DOWN CULTURAL, LINGUSTIC AND PHYSICAL BARRIERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. In the autoproclaimed Palestlsraeli duo Boogie Balagan, psychedelic rock'n'roll meets cool Middle Eastern vibes. Their first album 'Lamentation Walloo' is a message of peace and multiculturalism. First, imagine voices that combine Julio Iglesias drinking straight tequilas and Joe Strummer high on harissa. Then, imagine a Mediterranean Jimmy Page torturing his electric guitar like a Greek bouzouki. Sprinkle it all with an infernal beat of pounding feet, and clapping hands and you get something of the ghost of t-rex smoking a water pipe in Gaza or Farid el Atrache jamming with the New York Dolls. The Hebrew word 'Balagan' means mess, making 'Boogie Balagan' a messy boogie. From Sinai to Muddy Waters blooz, Boogie Balagan has invented a musical couscous marinated in 70's Oriental with electric spices. PEACE THROUGH MUSIC: Boogie Balagan is above all a duo. Gabri is the lead singer and Azri is playing the guitar. A story shared between France Palestlsrael. At the early 2002 they decided to devote themselves entirely to Boogie Balagan and what was at first supposed to be a Muddy Waters covers became a unique project to blend the Middle Eastern groove and language with the raw energy of Robert Johnson. A project which shatters walls and barriers so that all can reunite under the flag of universal rock. Azri and Gabri sing about reunions, reconciliation and human love. 'Lamentation Walloo' calls for a stop to lamentations and tells the story of an Israeli-Palestinian friendship between children. The lyrics are sung in English, French, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew. They are strung together in a creative urban dialect making this rock'n'roll recipe a formidable weapon of peace. CLIMBING OVER WALLS: We feel that we just have to stop lamenting our fate. We would like to cross walls with music and songs. The aim is to show that by mixing lyrics and languages, as opposed to mixing with each other because we are restrained, the message can be carried out in a cheerful way. We are a bit nostalgic of the time when we were all working together back there and when we would share a watermelon in the break. And the music-wise it was the same, with the Palestinians who worked in Israel, we used to jam all night by kitchens sharing the 'hafla', the party says Azri: This French Palestlsraeli duo has dared to mix styles, blending sounds from their homelands, an American rhythm and multilingual lyrics. Everything is roots: the music, the words; even the collector cd box set is a matzot bread filled with Palestinian zaatar spice, salt from Dead Sea, with lamentations from Wailing Wall running through it.(myspaceprofiles.com)





Lamentation Waloo

Titelliste

01 Lamentation Walloo
02 Dalida Blooz
03 Biomekanicamel
04 Kings Of The Hill
05 Mojo Lady
06 Ride On Ride On
07 Shoofooni Ya Nass
08 Lonely Donkey H'Mar
09 Get Outta My Pagoda (Balagan's Recipe)
10 Shake The Shooka

Genre: Ethnic
Bitrate: 320 kBit/s
Year: 2007