Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Devil's Anvil: Hard rock from the Middle East, 1967

Can you believe it? The Devil's Anvil, a very very early precursor of world music fused Arabic beats with Western ones since 1967. However instead of being met with unprecedented success, the outbreak of the 1967 war between Arabs and Israel the day the album was launched put an early end to American radio stations would not play the album. Make sure to listen to the music and try to understand how revolutionary it was for its time,

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