Omar Souleyman | Musicosity

Omar Souleyman

Event Details

Saturday, March 12, 2011
Headline Artist: Omar Souleyman
17-19 Parramatta Rd
2038 Annandale
AU

Syrian street culture overdriven casio-craziness strained through the timeless folk world of the middle east. Desert sands cavorting to the rapid-fire keyboard mania of Dabke. Your world shifts around you as the dunes of Omar's musical genius sweep all before in a musical sandstorm.
Worlds are compressed as the streets of Syria erupt under your feet in a infectious hyper-mesh that will leave you swirling.

Omar Souleyman is a musical legend from Syria. For the past 15 years, he and his group have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout the country, having issued more than five-hundred studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. Hailing from the rural Northeastern city of Ras Al Ain, Souleyman began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators that have been with him from the start. The group tirelessly performs concerts throughout Syria and has accepted invitations to perform abroad in...

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Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend.