Robinwood Concert House - news & upcoming show

I really liked their adaptation to the old Arabic favorite,
ركلة نزلح للخروج من الكفار وثنية (Kick the Snot Out Of The Pagan Infidels).

And who could ever forget رعد في بازار (Thunder in the Bazaar)? Then there's the poignantly solemn تعطي يد السارق (Give the Thief a Hand).

Just tell me if they'll be playing the double contra bass oud - because when you're really in the mood for traditional Arabic form and rhythm fused with Jewish dance favorites music that's influenced by Western harmonics... well, there's not much that will beat a double contra bass oud.

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You know, I really try to judge less these days, but I can't help myself, madjack, so let me ask: Are you really the unashamed bigot you seem? I can't fathom what would make a person post what you did. Do you really just dismiss Arabs?

[Sidebar to Robinwood Concert House: Thanks for continuing to bring in music that would otherwise never make it to Toledo. One of these days, I will be there for a show. Sorry I have never made it yet.]

thanks again to the robinwood concert house... this looks like a great program. i hope my schedule opens so i can make this.

madjack - that is just willful inciting of controversy by manipulative use of stereotypes. i wouldn't dare call it ignorance because you knew exactly what you were doing and really for no purpose other than your destructive pleasure.

madjack - that is just willful inciting of controversy by manipulative use of stereotypes. i wouldn't dare call it ignorance because you knew exactly what you were doing and really for no purpose other than your destructive pleasure.

All that? I had no idea. Sometimes I amaze myself!

Six guys, one with a dog house bass, two with unnameable stringed instruments possibly from the guitar family (think red headed stepson of grand-pappy Strat), two percussion instruments and a multi-keyed tube that might or might not qualify as a woodwind. Then there's the typical non-informative description of the music they claim to produce:

...attempt to present high-quality concert and educational presentations of music that fuse elements of the Arabic musical heritage with Klezmer (Jewish dance music), Classical Indian, and American influences while respecting the spirit of these musics. [The band] Wisaal’s repertoire consists of Classical Arabic instrumental pieces, contemporary fusion pieces, and our compositions.

Neither one of you yo-yos have the slightest idea of what they're talking about, but since the description is amorphous and opaque enough to obscure two copulating rhinoceroses in the middle of an Easter parade, you're free to extoll the artistic merit and aesthetic values of this group without fear of erudite contention.

Here's a clue that fell off the luggage rack of the last bus to the Big Windy: Go to the food court at the Westfield Franklin Park mall and conduct a 100 person survey. Read that description and ask what it means. No one will know. Even if you eliminate all the responders that include the phrase 'ioun-know' somewhere in their answer, your results will be zero. Hell, ask if anyone has heard of the group, or play the CD and see if anyone can identify any of the songs. Offer one dollar to everyone who actually completes the survey so that you'll get a few takers – because after the first five, pedestrians will begin avoiding you like a Brady Campaigner at a gun show.

The only thing more obscure than this band is their music. When an unknown group purports to incorporate music from two cultures that have been at war since 4000 BC and adds a third sub-genre from another culture that only the indigenous socially elite have every heard of - and then claim influence by American music, you cannot expect anyone except pseudo-intellectuals and sycophants to take your posturing seriously. I don't. Hence I make jokes.

i'd guess by the tenor of your response that i was correct.

western classical evolved in part from arabic and medieval western folk; bluegrass had its roots in moorish influence on irish and scot folk traditions. listening to the combination of disparate musical traditions is hardly without precedent and, more importantly, definitely doesn't require a scholarly approach to be appreciated - that is to say... it's just fun.

bands like the band, or the allman brothers, or the stones combined different traditions for very different results... would you have objected to their efforts?

and those instruments pretty much look like a mandoline and a lute.

thanks, enjoyeverysandwich. madjack, don't you, like, have something better to do?

Shove it where the sun don't shine, luvtoledo.

On a few occasions, I've received positive feedback from here (not that that is what i'm going for)
I just simply post to inform, mostly I get bored office workers humping there computers.

I don't pay much attention to the sarcasm on the forum, I'm just looking for the folks that enjoy a bit of culture.

BTW the show was a blast, lot of cds sold, great vibe, they will be back in October.

tbellows - please do continue to post these events. they are of great interest to me and i would suspect a good many others - thanks.

madjack, i apologize. my words were intemperate and unhelpful. i dislike very much what you said and how you said it, but i also dislike the tone of my response.

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?"
...pass the hookah

Mr. Obama? what are you doing here?

That doesn't even makes sense Linecrosser. Try again.

Wait, on second thought, please don't.

Chewing on the hookah, what else?

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:cough::cough:

Kinda rough...

Your apology is accepted in the spirit in which it was given.

I'd have thought this entire thread would have faded into obscurity by this time.