Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Jonathan Smith]

It would work for sure! :) The idea of Arabic psychedelia sounds great. *
Bellymetal* (Kephra seem to be its sole band) sounds too good to be true.
There was Hassan i Sabbah....

Cheers, Jonathan

2009/12/14 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>

> On 14 Dec 2009, at 07:41 , Jonathan Smith wrote:
> >> ..... in an infinitely probable alternate universe -- Alan's Bedouin has
> >> recently produced a fine "Arabic space doom" concept album for Rise
> Above
> >> based around Lovecraft's character "Abdul Alhazred". If only I could
> >> dimension hop to the right universe in order to hear it! :)
> >
> > I'd love to hear that! Not that anyone's sanity would be intact after
> > listening to it! ;)
>
> It would totally work, though, no?
>
> There's a list on MySpace of "oriental/arabic metal" groups --
> http://groups.myspace.com/orientalmetal -- though I kind of dig the label
> "bellymetal", which I hadn't encountered before but rather wish I had. :)
>  The genre seems heavy on death/black metal groups ... but I totally see a
> space in which psychedelically tinged doom, underlain by Alan's surging bass
> lines, could play ....  Well, in that charmingly alternate universe, anyway!
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>