the quarter tone zone

Quarter tones are the new cool :: featuring music from all around the Mediterranean and eastwards, with a strong bias for melodrama, synthesizers tuned to the Arab scale and celebrating trashy pop music!

Sunday 18 March 2007

bus station music? :: Senad "Niki" Nikočević Autobuska stanica

In Israel, the local equivalent of quarter tone pop music (musīqa mizraḥīt מוזיקה מזרחית) is called bus station music. One example is Śarīt Ḥadad's 2002 hit Teleḵ kapara 'alay תלך כפרה עליי ("go crazy over me"), but I'm pretty sure she doesn't care much about that label, knowing that her records are not only popular among the majority of Israelis with an origin in Arab countries, but also among Palestinians and other Arabs.

Anyway, my main point was that dismissing this kind of music as bus station music is not only common in Israel. But apparently, some not only shake off the stigma, they even celebrate it! Like the Bosnian turbofolk singer Senad "Niki" Nikočević, who went ahead and recorded a song called "bus station" in 2006, the fabulous Autobuska stanica. He even made a great little video in (what I think is) the Sarajevo bus station:

1 Comments:

At 28 July 2007 at 00:28 , Blogger Skylark said...

You definitely have to post something about Azis (here in No kazvam ti stiga) and Svetlana "Ceca" Ražnatović.

 

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