Oh Yeah Habibi (2015) by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:38:08Z Oh Yeah Habibi: ten years and up-to-date If you look up the word ‘arabicana’ you find a music genre and its inventors; NO blues. Even after ten years the band that combines Oriëntal roots music and American folk blues is still unique in the world. On the new album Oh Yeah Habibi, NO blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta. Even though the band has been together for ten years, the new album Oh Yeah Habibi sounds direct and fresh like a debut album. U’d player Haytham Safia: “We went back to the core of guitar, u’d, double bass and percussion.” Different from the previous albums, NO blues chooses to use current events as topics for their songs. Songs like Exodus and World Keeps Turning refer to people that seek refuge and Two Trains and Gods Move refer to religious themes.”It struck us that our music seemed to have a different energy after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo”, says bassist Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen. “NO blues has always been a political statement in music, we had to follow that up with our lyrics. Guitarist Ad van Meurs: ”We’ve never been a political band, but we don’t look the other way.” Oh Yeah Habibi is more on topic than previous NO blues albums and the critically acclaimed arabicana from this Dutch based top team that has been working together for ten years, still has great impact. In twelve new studio tracks the band reaches a next level in their musical embrace between east and west. Genre World Contains tracks 01 Into The Caravan by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:38:02Z 02 Imta by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:37:59Z 03 Doubt by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:37:54Z 04 Two Trains by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:37:49Z 05 Eshasa by NO blues published on 2015-09-02T12:37:43Z
