Mawwal - Black Flies
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ANCIENT 553
"Mawwal (formerly Paranoise) performs original world fusion music and original arrangements of traditional Middle Eastern music in a spirited and beautiful trance-inducing acoustic/electric ensemble. Inventive vocal arrangements in English and Arabic weave through a Laouto (Greek lute) with bass and drums, augmented by traditional percussion (tabla, dumbek, frame drum, riq) and violin. This album is a further refinement of the unique world fusion style of guitarist/composer Jim Matus. Spirited and trance-inducing, their music has been called a "new genre" by Progression magazine." Appearing on the album is Percy Jones on bass on a good number of the tracks and two tracks feature vocals by the late, legendary Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! “Jim Matus has taken the style that Peter Gabriel made so famous a few years back and taken it a step further…Paranoise is on the cutting edge of the current crop of world music bands”-Expose
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