- Band Name: Omar Souleyman
- Record Label: Ribbon Music
- Release Date: Oct 21, 2013
- Summary: Produced by Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, the official debut studio release for the Syrian dabke singer was recorded in Brooklyn with keyboardist Rizan Sa'id.
- Record Label: Ribbon Music
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, International, Middle Eastern Traditions, Syrian
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Oct 16, 201390With lyrics in the languages of Turkey, Kurdistan and Iraq all included, with the express aim of engaging listeners throughout the region, Souleyman’s mission to bring a more positive view of his country, and its thrilling musical forms, to a wider audience continues unabated.
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Oct 14, 201380Quite unlike any other record you'll hear this year. [Nov 2013, p.116]
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Oct 14, 201380Wenu Wenu cleans up Souleyman's music just enough to place it in an expanded musical and sonic context that creates a new frontier without sacrificing its power.
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Oct 14, 201380Indubitably, worth the oxide it's been taped on. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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Oct 14, 201380Wenu Wenu is at last the genuine article. That it also captures the chaos of his live show is no small achievement either. [Nov 2013, p.80]
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Oct 16, 201380Thanks to the sheer joy with which he performs it (produced here for the first time by Kieran Hebden), it’s irresistibly, inevitably satisfying.
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Oct 14, 201360The switch to studio recording has inevitably come at the cost of some of the ramshackle beauty that characterised those early recordings, but he’s found a sympathetic producer in Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, who astutely recorded the majority of this set live in the studio, limiting his input to minor flourishes.