Member Since: 16/05/2007
Band Members: Ustad Ali
Influences: Pir Sultan Abdal, Sayat Nova, Pyotr Kropotkin, Fernando Arrabel, Nazim Hikmet, Nestor Makhno, Sheikh Bedrettin, Mazdak, Jorge Luis Borges, Ibn Arabi, Sergei Parajanov, Qurratulain Hyder, Maya Deren, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Dimi Mint Abba, Oliverio Girondo, Violeta Parra, Ostad Elahi, mutu qabla an tumutu, Abdals of Rum, Jamilis, Shams-i-Tabrizis, Qalandariyah, Haydaris, Bektasis, Jalaliyah. Barak Baba dancing like a bear and singing like a monkey.
Sounds Like: Vsatryas, magicians, medicine men, shamans, mystics, mendicants, wandering madmen, roaming- footloose warriors, mercenaries, fire eaters, poison swallowers , libidinous pleasure seekers and wandering swarm of austere ascetics, pranayama practisers giving a bent backed Dante's ring hell or like an Egyptian civilian army shitting on Eden's skull, or a Cuban guerilla force stepping on Eisenhower's throat emptying their glorious bladders on his face or a Ukranian peasant army kicking Bolshevik brain
Record Label: Boweavil, Ikuisuus
Type of Label: Major