Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie Little Axe Records

Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie Little Axe Records

& Ibex Band

and colonizers

Limited edition of 500 copies

Autotuned robotic vocals combine with frenetic drum machines and pitch bending synths for a singular hybrid of local styles and Indian influence

For many Somali music fans the sound of qaraami — poetic lyrics accompanied by the sparse sounds of the kaban and bongo drums — is the quintessential Somali sound

one of the world’s oldest and most beguiling instruments

The lyrics to the ghazals featured on the recording are written by some of the best known Urdu poets of the 20th century including Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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” is based on a period when she lived amidst the dunes in southwest Oregon

Andaleeb Wasif was born in a well-known family of Hyderabad

“Dune Sketches

16 songs of pure folklore