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ARTIST
GANIMIAN & HIS ORIENTAL MUSIC
TITLE
Come With Me To The Casbah
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CACOPHONIC
CATALOG #
CACK 016LP
CACK 016LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
6/24/2016
Originally released in 1959. Oft overlooked for over half a century while misfiled amongst exploit belly-dance records and holidaymaker souvenirs, this one-off twelve track album is the only existing full-length record by the best-kept mutant musical secret of the Armenian American diaspora, oud pop maestro
Charles "Chick" Ganimian
. One of the earliest examples of any kind of recorded fusion between rhythm heavy pop music and traditional Turkish music, Ganimian's developments in New York City - with his sadly unrecorded turk-jerk combo
The Nor-Ikes
(New Dawn) combo - ran almost simultaneously alongside the rising Anadolou pop scene in Turkey, resulting in his short lived powerhouse of Kif proto-rock under the changing names of
Ganim's Asia Minors
,
Ganimian & His Orientals
and
Ganimian & His Oriental Music Orchestra
. Combining a line-up of mostly unknown musicians from his local community (where he was worked as a butcher), Ganimian, in a short unison with ATCO records, was fortunate enough to accommodate jazz guitarist
Al Schactman
as part of his studio personnel (launching the career of this
Nina Simone
regular) as well as French born Armenian folk singer
Onnik Dinkjian
and reid player
Steve Bogoshian
(both from the band
The House Of The Seven Uncles
) as well as the esteemed Turkish raised kanun player
Ahmet Yatman
. As one of the very few early American recorded authentic Middle Eastern fusion record
Come With Me To The Casbah
has piqued a refined interest in a new generation of progressive world music collector resulting in a distinct drought in original Ganimian pressings on the collectors' market. This LP includes all of Ganimian's recordings including the rare singles for ATCO and East West which sit awkwardly next to bizarre and unique takes on popular American standards enhancing the exciting freak factor of this record which simply could not be made by today's stifling self-aware anti-standards.
Come With Me To The Casbah
is the music of this lost enigma of early world music, Eastern fusion and a missing kink in the fabric of New York pop music history captured before his short stint as an exotic
Herbie Mann
sideman which proceeded his migration into obscurity and his well-imparted tragic struggle with alcohol dependency depriving pop culture of a forward thinking pioneer who paved the way for the more credible exponents of the cross-continental Indo fusion enigma such as
John Berberian
and hard rock efforts of
The Devils Anvil
.
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