We want the funk, nothing but the funk. But where is it, In today’s mainstream urban music, with all its compressed, digitalized sleekness, the earthy and sometimes-virtuosic instrumentation that ...
From Libyan reggae to Lebanese folk, Moroccan disco to Sudanese jazz, any preconceptions Westerners might have about the sound of the Arab world in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s are quickly shattered, ...