Oh hell, why not? Let's start the week out with an "Arabia" double feature. This band of bedoins are a male/female duo named Danny and Tiffany Preston out of Echo Park (finally, a score here for the West Coast...take that Brooklyn!), and actually seem to take the Arabia moniker somewhat more literally than our friend Lawrence below. Last year, the duo released an EP called The Basta that introduced the world (or at least the LA Eastside hipsters and electronic music bloggers) to their convincingly unique combination of Middle Eastern beats, stuttering drums, prickly guitars and hypnotically unintelligible chanted lyrics. All of which combines in a way that makes you want to break out the bidi cigarettes, and wonder how a girl named Tiffany ever became qualified to emit such an ethnic-sounding caterwaul. Ah, but it all sounds pretty sublime, actually. Turns out, as well, that the duo has something of a sense of levity as evidenced by their extremely indiosyndratic video for that EP's single, "Omar K." It's a little mindblowing, actually, and certainly something that defies description.
Rainbow Arabia have a new EP on the horizon this summer. If you are in Los Angeles, and the music is to your liking, they will be returning from a tour of Europe in time to play the Echoplex on June 28th.
http://www.myspace.com/rainbowarabia
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