Wenu Wenu LP

For most Western audiences, the type of dance music Omar Souleyman creates and performs is sonically familiar, but culturally unrecognizable. Though his career spans multiple decades and he boasts an impeccable reputation in his native Syria, it's the involvement of Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet)—who was enlisted to produce Wenu Wenu—that has truly boosted Souleyman's profile as of late. Still, even with Four Tet behind the boards, Souleyman's foundation remains largely the ...

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