buzuk

In relating how, by order of the late General Beatson, then commanding Bash-buzuk (Bashi-bazuk is the advertiser's own property), I volunteered to relieve Cars, how I laid the project before the "Great Eltchee," how it was received with the roughest language and how my first plan was thoroughly "frustrated."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The compilation opens with ominous buzuk noodling and roughly hewn crooning on "Atabat," which segues seamlessly into a brutal six-minute keyboard jam, "Lansob Sherek (I Will Make A Trap)," that features the relentless popping of an Iraqi zenbur drum.

Cokemachineglow.com 2009