The Little-Known History of Palestine's First Rock Band

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21 points·tintinnabula··9 comments

Respect to those people for doing a dangerous thing in dangerous place for a good cause. Although I personally don't like Arabic music, as a rocker however I'd be curious to hear more of their music.

Their? Always lovely to find new ways to "other" people.

Their which? Levantine, Egyptian, Traditional, contemporary... "their" music stands perfectly on it's own... you're just not familiar with it.

Not sure that a piece on Vice impressed with a "westernized" "Arab" music is the way to go, but my favorite Lebanese (diaspora) band is "Soapkills" (الصابون يقتل) and everything مشروع ليلى (Mashrou' Leila).

https://invidio.us/watch?v=tEtlO4w_YDY&local=1&nojs=0&qualit...

https://invidio.us/watch?v=6HqHdBlQEe8&local=1&nojs=0&qualit...

It’s not as dangerous as you might think. We do have parties and listen to music of all kinds there. From Arabic Folk to Hip Hop to Pop. Source: I grew up in Palestine.

That is good. Please accept my apologies for having been that biased; distance paired with misinformation don't help in this context.

> a dangerous thing in a dangerous place

That's a bit sensationalist.

I was referring to playing in a rock band in a Islamic country. Probably in the 60s it was different though.

Friend of mine comes from a family of loopy Christians that moved to Palestine in the 60's. She says everyone in the middle east loves a good show.

That’s ridiculous, Pakistan has plenty of them

do any recordings exist?

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