Omar Souleyman US / CANADA / EUROPE Tours – Summer 2011

Omar Souleyman US / Canada / Europe dates 2011

more to be announced soon...

JUNE

June 3 - Austin, TX / EMO's (Chaos in Tejas Festival)

June 5 – Chicago, IL / Do Division Festival / Damen stage / 4PM

June 7 – San Francisco, CA / Mezzanine

June 8 – Portland, OR / Dante’s

June 9 – Seattle, WA / Neumo’s

June 11 – Manchester, Tennessee / Bonnaroo Festival

Jun 12 – Brooklyn, NY / Music Hall of Williamsburg

June 13 - Montreal, Quebec / Suoni Per il Popolo

June 25 - Pilton, England - Glastonbury

JULY

July 6 – Toronto / Lee’s Palace

July 9 - Detroit, MI / Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

July 10 – Philadelphia, PA / Johnny Brenda’s

July 12 – Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA / ECHO

AUGUST

August 5 - Katowice, Off Festival

August 6 - London / Field Day

August 17 - Lisbon / Festival de Paredes de Coura

August 19 - Amsterdam / Paradiso

August 20 - Biddinghuizen / Lowlands Festival

August 22 - Ancona / Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo

SEPTEMBER

September 9 - Torino / Mito Festival at Sala Espace

September 11 - Isle of Wight / Bestival

September 12 Tilburg / Incubate

September 13 - Antwerp / Trix

September 14 - Paris / Point Ephemere

September 15 - Dudingen / Bad Bonn

September 16 - Lyon / Transbordeur

September 18 - Brussels / AB

DECEMBER

December 11 Minehead / ATP Curated

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GROUP DOUEH Live Photos 2011

Group Doueh Live on Tour 2011

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GROUP DOUEH CURRENT TOUR DATES UPDATED

GROUP DOUEH

Tour 2011

05-23 Helsinki, Finland - Korjaamo (Vaunusali)

05-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso

05-28 Paris, France - Villette Sonique

05-29 Lille, France - Aéronef club

06-23 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle

06-24 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center

06-25 Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Museum of Art

06-26 Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Music

06-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Vancouver International Jazz Festival

06-29 Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge

06-30 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

07-01 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop

07-02 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s

07-03 New York, NY - SummerStage Central Park

The now legendary Group Doueh have been playing in and around their native homeland for over 27 years, the band morphing between acoustic and electric modes with members of their family and friends joining the band as the mood requires. The enigmatic guitar hero Bamaar Salmou, who is known simply as 'Doueh' (pronounced: 'Doo-way') and his wife, the incredible vocalist Halima, bring their son on keyboards as well as three female backing vocalists/percussionists. The group's ancient/modern sound is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but takes it in a direction that is also entirely its own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music - yet Group Doueh have managed to transcend the limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and individualistic approach that incorporates a distinctly rock element anomalous in the region. This is a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it: the Sahara desert.

The discovery of the group by Sublime Frequencies, via a song snatched from a AM radio broadcast in Morocco in 2005 (as well as an exploratory mission in 2006 that landed Hisham Mayet in the group’s compound after chasing an overland trail all the way to the Mauritanian border) sealed the band’s relationship with the label. A successful European tour with labelmate Omar Souleyman in 2009 ensued and western audiences were finally able to witness the power of the group’s mighty live shows. In 2010 Doueh hosted Tony Allen in his home town and joined in on some of his dates in Europe. SF have released three albums by the band in recent years, and a set featuring the band at their most upfront and catchy should be released in time for this soon to be epic tour.

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MOCAD: Detroit - Omar Souleyman with special guest Ara Topouzian

Sublime Frequencies Presents: Omar Souleyman with special guest Ara Topouzian Saturday, July 9 8:00pm - 11:00pm
	Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) 4454 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI
	Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD
	Saturday, July 9th at 8PM Omar Souleyman with special guests Ara Topouzian Admission: $9.00 all ages Omar Souleyman is a Syrian pop musician. Since 1994, he and his musicians – Rizan Said keyboard and Ali Shaker Ali – bozouk - have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, he has issued more than five hundred studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. From rural Northeastern Syria, Omar began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators that remain with him today. The myriad musical traditions of the region are evident in their music. Here, classical Arabic mawal-style vocalization gives way to high-octane Syrian Dabke (the regional folkloric dance and party music), Iraqi Choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles, among others. This amalgamation is truly the sound of Syria. Together, they commonly perform the Ataba, a traditional form of folk poetry used in Dabke. Acting as a conduit, Souleyman struts into the audience with urgency, vocalizing the prose in song before returning for the next verse. Souleyman’s first hit in Syria was "Jani" (1996) which gained cassette-kiosk infamy and brought him recognition throughout the country. Over the years, his popularity has risen steadily and the group tirelessly performs concerts throughout Syria and has accepted invitations to perform abroad in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Lebanon. < http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/item.asp?Item_id=34> Ara Topouzian is an Armenian-American musician whose proficiency at the KANUN (Middle Eastern harp) has made him a nationally-recognized artist. He has performed in concert, at music festivals and many celebrated venues across the United States, with the top musicians in Middle Eastern music. Topouzian's traditional musical style keeps to his Armenian heritage but has expanded to include music from around the Middle East, as well as jazz, fusion, new age and blues. The recipient of numerous awards, Ara Topouzian's music has been heard and sold around the globe. Showing an interest in music in his early youth, Ara played music throughout the public school music program and in college, he began studying Armenian and Middle Eastern classical and folk music. Performing with a local Armenian band, Ara eventually branched out and began performing as a solo and ensemble musician throughout the Midwest and East Coast. In 1991, he formed American Recording Productions (ARP) with the intent to record and preserve this type of world music. To date, his award winning record label has produced over thirty recordings of Armenian and Middle Eastern music. ARP products are distributed internationally in major retail outlets and can be heard on several world music and NPR radio stations. He has performed at several Armenian weddings and social events, world music concerts, nightclubs, and folk festivals throughout the country. Ara’s music has been featured in several PBS documentaries that have been aired nationwide. Along with his Detroit-based world music ensemble, Eastern Winds, Ara has performed with several popular Armenian, Greek, and Middle Eastern performers and ensembles (including Eastern Winds) throughout the country. Some notable musicians he has performed include: George Mgrdichian, Onnik Dinkjian, Mal Barsamian, John Berberian, Joe Zeytoonian, James Stoynoff, and the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra. He also has performed with jazz, fusion, rock, and blues artists/ensembles such as the following notable artists: Wendel Harrison, Sean Blackman, Colton Weatherston, and Immigrant Suns. Ara performs an array of Armenian and Middle Eastern instruments including: Kanun (laptop harp), Duduk (Armenian oboe), Metal G-clarinet, Dumbek (Middle Eastern hand drum), Def (Middle Eastern tambourine), and a variety of Middle Eastern frame drums. visit http://www.aratopouzian.com/ for more information SUBLIME FREQUENCIES PO BOX 17971 SEATTLE WA 98127 USA http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

Sublime Frequencies Screening: Staring into the Sun

Sublime Frequencies Screening:

Staring into the Sun

Friday, May 13 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Barbicon Centre

London, UK

Traveling from Ethiopia’s northern highlands to the lower Omo Valley, photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt explores the worlds of Zar spirit possession, Hamer tribal wedding ceremonies, Borena water well polyphonic singing and more, presenting an enchanting look at the landscapes and sounds
from the horn of Africa. Captured with an unflinching sense of realism and poetic admiration, this is a visual and aural feast of the senses.

US 2010 Dir. Olivia Wyatt 60 minutes

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Brooklyn Sublime Frequencies Film Screening

This Weekend

Sunday, May 8th - 7 pm

Spectacle Theater

124 South 3rd Street

Brooklyn, NY 11211

Sublime Frequencies, the Seattle-based record label responsible for bringing Omar Souleyman and a myriad of other Eastern sounds to the ears of the discerning West— will be screening two films in Brooklyn on May 8^th at Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg.

Artist and musician Robert Millis made the two films being shown and a Q&A with the director will accompany each screening as well as a selection of short subjects from the Sublime Frequencies archives—dreamy musical segments from Southeast Asia and beyond.

Check out the trailer for THIS WORLD IS UNREAL LIKE A SNAKE IN A ROPE below and make an appointment now for the necessary immunizations to travel to Williamsburg for this one-night stand.

THIS WORLD IS UNREAL LIKE A SNAKE IN A ROPE

A film by Robert Millis

55 minutes, 2010

Journeys to the heart of Dravidian Tamil Nadu, through the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. Featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, free jazz nagaswaram raga, deafening cities, processions, devotion, color, abstractions, music and more. India is too vast and rich to ever know: offered here is one tiny perspective, one dream, subjective and flawed, hanging by a thread, captured live in the moment and in the midst. One trip in the order it happened. Not quite documentary. Not quite ethnography.

At 9:00pm:

PHI TA KHON: GHOSTS OF ISAN

A film by Robert Millis

75 minutes, 2006

Described as ‘The Mardi Gras from Hell’ and ‘Thai Halloween" PHI TA KHON is a Buddhist merit making ghost festival that takes place every year in the Isan province of Northern Thailand. Thai country groove music (acoustic and electric, on temple floors and in the back of pick up trucks), magnificent masks and costumes, and phallic icons of all sizes, Phi Ta Khon is a mind-blowing and obscure tradition captured here in a DIY collage "you are there" verite style, unique to the Sublime Frequencies approach.

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