NPR's All Things Considered, DuOud: Rethinking the Soundtrack to 'Midnight Express' >>
What happens when two Paris-based North African musicians decide to rework the music from the movie Midnight Express using traditional Turkish instruments and techno? Hemdi is a secular Muslim originally from Algeria; Smadj is Moroccan and a devout Jew. Together, they form the band DuOud. They see their song "The Chase" from their new album as both an ironic challenge to a film that famously portrays Middle Easterners as brutes and an earnest homage to one of Hollywood's first techno soundtracks. 07/24/03 >> go there
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