Bedouin Jerry Can Band Photo: Supplied
This week, an interview and impromptu live performance by The Bedouin Jerry Can Band – a collective of semi-nomadic coffee grinders from the Egyptian Sinai Desert.
Their music draws from ancient musical history accompanied by traditional instruments as well as junk percussion salvaged from battlegrounds of the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.
As they say: the music of the Sinai desert is a designated Stratocaster-free zone where jerry cans and abandoned ammunition boxes make for the best drums.
The Bedouin Jerry Can Band played Womad NZ in 2009.
Music Details
Nick Drake
Three Hours
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left
Island-UMG
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Debaka
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Coffee Time
30 IPS Ltd
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area band
Gyae Su
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area band
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area band
Strut Records UK
Seckou Keita & Catrin Finch
1677
Seckou Keita & Catrin Finch
Soar
bendigedig
Marlon Williams
Make Way for Love
Marlon Williams
Make Way for Love
Marlon Williams
Ry Cooder
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Blind Willie Johnson
The Prodigal Son
Perro Verde-Fantasy Records
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Debaka
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Drobie
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Ya El Yaleadana
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Fengan
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Khalf
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Black Coffee
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Wesh Melek
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Mareia
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Coffee Time
30IPS LTD / El Mastaba Center
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
Al Ragah
traditional-arranged by Medhat El Issaway
Recorded live at the Grand Chancellor Hotel-Mangere.
RNZ
Derek Gripper
Si Naani
Toumani Diabates
Libraries on Fire
New cape records
