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03. RIZAN SAID - The Impossible Arab Kurd
04. RIZAN SAID - When Vans Turn Into Clubs
05. RIZAN SAID - Cosmopolitan Hacha
06. RIZAN SAID - The Man Who Toured The World
07. RIZAN SAID - From Mandal to Mandal
08. RIZAN SAID - Electric Mawwal II
ARTIST
TITLE
King of Keyboard
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
CREP 034LP CREP 034LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/14/2016

LP edition of Rizan Said's King of Keyboard, originally released as a CD by Beirut-based Annihaya Records in 2015 (END 011CD). Reissued by Discrepant in collaboration with Annihaya. ''There is no other Syrian dabke musician that has enjoyed the local, regional, national, and international recognition that Rizan Said has, and for that, the world is lucky. Rizan is a musical ambassador from a disappeared Syria, and this is not to be taken lightly. Once upon a time, not too long ago, Syria was a culturally diverse country possessing a certain unity. A place not synonymous with barbarism and savagery. Far from the capital of Damascus, the northeast of the country, known as the Jazeera, was rich with history and culture. Rizan was a musical prodigy from a young age -- a gifted player of percussion and reed instruments before a wealth of synthesizers began flooding Syria in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Steadfast on the Syrian cassette album circuit at the time, Rizan the boy wonder was already sending his signals out from the Jazeera frontier, thanks to a partnership with local producer Zuhir Maksi. It can be said, that without Rizan Said, a good number of Syrian singers from the 1990s onward might never have been heard -- most notably Omar Souleyman, a collaborator with Rizan for two decades. Where synthesizers can bring a certain artifice and death to the sound of music, Rizan's torrential speed and flair on the keys bring new life to Syrian and Kurdish sounds -- lightning fast as required -- respectfully forcing the component sounds of folkloric dabke into the next level. This is the updated sound of the ages, where hand drums and reed flutes are now emulated and pounded out on Korg keyboards'' --Mark Gergis, April, 2015. RIYL Omar Souleyman, EEK.