DISSIDENTEN TELEPHONE ARAB 12"
Category / Style / Moods: World * Worldbeat * Club/Dance * Traditional Middle Eastern Folk * Indian Classical * World Fusion

 13.77 / S asocc
1987 US SHANACHIE 12"TITLE: TELEPHONE ARAB
ARTIST: DISSIDENTENCONDITION
COVER: GENERIC
VINYL: VG+ OR BETTER
TOUGH TO FIND OUT OF PRINT ORIGINAL PRESS

 TRACKS:  Disc: 1

1. 

TELEPHONE ARAB

2. 

WANA ZIZI

3. 

DO THE PHARAO

Biography by Greg Prato Although the trio Dissidenten specializes in the exotic sounds of Africa, all three of their members -- Uve Müllrich, Marlon Klein, and Friedo Josch -- hail from Berlin, Germany. Originally formed in 1981, the trio issued a few self-financed singles, before touring Asia for the better part of a year. By 1982, the group had relocated to India, where they lived in the palace of Maharaja Bhalkrishna Bharti of Gondagaon in Madja Pradesh in central India. This proved to be the location where Dissidenten's debut full-length recording was written; the album, Germanistan, saw the group joined by such outsiders as the Karnataka College of Percussion, female singer Ramamani, and American saxophonist Charlie Mariano. A year later, it was time for the trio to move once more, this time to North Africa (more specifically, to Tangier, Morocco), where renowned author and composer Paul Bowles introduced the trio to some of the area's best instrumentalists -- resulting in Dissidenten's sophomore effort, Sahara Elektrik, produced by Abdessalam Akaaboune. The mid-'80s saw the group score their first big hit (in Spain and Italy) with the dance track "Fata Morgana." Subsequently, the group launched a sold out tour of Spain, which led to a John Peel recording session in England, and increased interested in the band throughout the remainder of the world (the group was especially embraced by Canada, where Sahara Elektrik topped the independent charts). The trio decided to set up shop in Spain during 1986, which was where they recorded their third recording, Life at the Pyramids, issued the same year. To support the release, Dissidenten set out on a world tour, a standout performance being the opening night at the 1988 New Music Seminar at the Palladium in New York City. Dissidenten's first release of the '90s, 1990's Out of This World, was also their first album to be featured on a major U.S. label (Sire/Warner). The album featured several guest North African musicians, including the string section of the Royal National Orchestra of Morocco, plus Cherif Lamrani and Mahmoud Saadi (both members of such renowned outfits as Lemchaheb, Jiljilala, and Nass El Ghiwane). Since beginning the group nearly ten years earlier, the trio decided to move their operations back to their homeland of Berlin. A year later, the in-concert album Live in New York was released (taped at the aforementioned show at the 1988 New Music Seminar), as the bandmembers concentrated on completing a movie/music project that focuses on Native American Indian music. Dissidenten spent much of 1992 working on their next studio release, The Jungle Book, which again featured several guest musicians -- including the Karnataka College of Percussion, Trilok Gurtu, and Ramesh Shotham. Upon its release a year later, the album proved to be well worth the wait, as European DJs in their annual World-Music-Charts Europe voted the album into second place, while Sven Väth remixed a version of "Jungle Book Part II" as a techno dance track. Once the album's supporting tour wrapped up in 1995, Marlon Klein spent the remainder of the year in Los Angeles, producing the albums Human Love and First Sign of Life for Gary Wright (of which former-Beatle George Harrison made a special appearance).  
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