Disorientalists - WHO WAS ESSAD BEY - Mixes 2016 by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:08:21Z Disorientalists are Yuriy Gurzhy (RotFront, Russendisko), Daniel Kahn (Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird) and Marina Frenk (Marina & Kapelsky, Real Baba Dunyah). The three berliners-by-choice joined forces to write and perform a musical based on the life of Essad Bey a.k.a. Kurban Said a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum. "Who Was Essad Bey" is a work in progress, performed regularly in the Studio Я of Gorki Theatre Berlin. *** Als Lew Abramowitsch Nussimbaum 1905 geboren und in Baku aufgewachsen, war Essad Bey ein aserbaidschanischer Patriot, erträumter Ölprinz, vor den Bolschewiken und den Nazis geflohener russischer Jude , muslimischer Konvertit, bekennender Mussolini-Fan und deutscher Erfolgsautor. Auf den Spuren der mysteriösen und legendären Figur dieses »Grenzgängers aus dem Kaukasus« rocken Disorientalists /a.k.a. Essad Bey-City Rollers/ durch die Abgründe eines bizarren Lebens. Genre World Contains tracks Who was Essad Bey by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:06:59Z Bolschewismus by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:05:59Z Reborn in displacement by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:06:04Z Essad Bey / Ostbahnhof by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:06:23Z Drittellösung by Yuriy Gurzhy published on 2015-08-01T09:07:21Z