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'Kind of NO blues'
After four successful albums and nearly a decade on the road NO blues opens a new pathway with 'Kind of NO blues'. What started as soundtrack music for a documentary by former politician Paul Rosenmöller about the Arab Spring has become an entire double album, full of unique live recordings and new songs featuring musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Horns, strings, poets and spoken word combined with the familiar Arabicana sound of NO blues.

The studio CD of the album contains twelve new studio tracks which feature national and international guest musicians. Bill Barrett (Hazmat Modine, USA) lends his avid harmonica sound to the song Nafura and you can hear the 'godfather of R&B' Andre Williams (USA) on The Water Pipe. Contribution from unexpected sources come from poets Vrouwkje Tuinman and Rodaan Al Galidi (Iraq). Cooperation with the modern classic Quartet Quinetique leads to a completely new sound. Metropole Orkest brass musicians Jos Beeren and Martijn Sohier bring the roaring thirties in the NO blues sound and Morad Khoury makes Arabic poetry revive with his violin in Go on.

The thirteen live tracks come are songs from the four previously released NO blues albums and provide a good overview of all the previous work. Contributions on the live recordings are from Sophie Cavez (Belgium), Shereen Dani All (Palestine) and Mourad Khoury (Palestine).

Guests
Bill Barrett (harmonica, Hazmat Modine), Jos Beeren (saxophone,Metropole Orkest), Vrouwkje Tuinman (poet), Rodaan Al Galidi (poet), Morad Khoury (violin), Martijn Sohier (trombone, Metropole Orkest), Quartet Quinetique (strings), Andre Williams (vocals).

NO blues
Ad van Meurs (vocals, guitar), Haytham Safia (vocals, u'd), Osama Maleegi (percussion), Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen (vocals, bass), Ankie Keultjes (vocals, synthesizer).

Discography NO blues
Farewell Shalabiye (2005), Ya Dunya (2007), Lumen (2009), Hela Hela (2010), Kind of NO blues (2013)

More info: http://www.noblues.nl/