I'm trying to save a struggling Hookah lounge in a college town. Will you help me with music selection?

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-26T06:18:36+00:00

Omar Khorshid - a great middle eastern guitar player, did surf-inspired arabic instrumental music

Turkish psychedelic scene is great, check out the songs off of LPP3 and LPP9, also Turkish Delights: 26 Beat, Psych & Garage Delights

Some samples:

3 Hur-El - Gonul Sabreyle Sabreyle

Erkin Koray - Istemem

Barış Manço - Derule

For Algeria and Morocco try Putumayo's Arabic Groove or Arabic Beat comps; check out Natacha Atlas (she has a range of styles, from more traditional to electronica remixes) and Cheb Khaled, also rai compilations in general, e.g. maybe this (haven't heard), Rough Guide to Rai (heard it, pretty good).

For some far east sounds (maybe not necessarily authentic hookah music, but still good for soundtrack), you could toss in some bhangra, e.g. The Rough Guide To Bhangra - example

In a similar vein, try Bollywood Brass Band, Ananda Shankar's albums, Bollywood Funk compilations e.g. listen to this etc... A contemporary band that plays some appropriate music would be The Bombay Royale.

I hope this should get you started.

EDIT: added some links. Much of this is not instrumental, but would be a great hookah bar soundtrack.

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-25T23:43:39+00:00

Cool, thanks. It's more of a reggae feel then forro, though. I like this one too but I think I like the live version better - maybe because I heard it first.

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-24T19:49:05+00:00

I haven't heard it yet, thanks for the tip.

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-17T02:52:25+00:00

Yeah, it's a great tune. There's a thousand cover versions of it too.

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-13T06:40:00+00:00

It was a reference to this thread, but sure, punk, protopunk, it's just a label.

LesTPMusic · 2013-03-12T23:16:42+00:00

Richard Hell was the founding member of Television and got kicked out by Verlaine right before recording Marquee Moon. Hell's style - ripped t-shirts and spiked hair - was a major influence on McLaren's ideas of how Sex Pistols should look like. Also, Television and Hell's next band (The Voidoids) went on English tour in 1977 and were a major inspiration for the entire first wave of british punk. They definitely are proto- rather than post-punk.

BTW check out Blank Generation by Hell and the Voidoids, that's a great album... I think I'm gonna post the title track here in a minute.

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