Ryan Allen

Souleyman is one of the luminaries of Dabke, a style of Syrian folk dance music that has made its way to North American ethnographic fetishists and the crate-digging/blog-sniffing wing-tipped-Oxford-snobs via awesometapes.com and world music label Sublime Frequencies. Dabke is music for gatherings, and Souleyman’s ultra-minimalist, synth-driven take on it is no exception—this is music for […]

Honey Ltd. was a Detroit vocal group on Lee Hazlewood’s imprint Lee Hazlewood Industries. Like Hazlewood, the band never quite achieved the stardom it deserved in its heyday, but thanks to the efforts of Light In The Attic Honey Ltd.’s album is available once again. The songs’ arrangements lend themselves more to the lush, ’60s […]