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Ganimian & His Oriental Music Come With Me To The Casbah

Cacophonic | Item No: 483138
Vinyl LP | 2016 / UK – Original | New
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Item Description
Often overlooked for over half a century while misfiled amongst exploit bellydance
records and holidaymaker souvenirs this one-off twelve track album is the only
existing full-length record by the best-kept mutant musical secret of the Armenian
American diaspora, oud pop maestro Charles ‘Chick’ Ganimian.
One of the earliest examples of any kind of recorded fusion between rhythm heavy
pop music and traditional Turkish music, Ganimian’s developments in New York
City - with his sadly unrecorded turk jerk combo The Nor-Ikes (New Dawn) combo
- ran almost simultaneously alongside the rising Anadolou Pop scene in Turkey,
resulting in his short lived powerhouse of Kif proto-rock under the changing names
of Ganim’s Asia Minors, Ganimian & His Orientals and Ganimian & His Oriental
Music Orchestra. Combining a line-up of mostly unknown musicians from his local
community (where he was worked as a butcher), Ganimian, in a short unison with
ATCO records, was fortunate enough to accommodate jazz guitarist Al Schactman
as part of his studio personnel (launching the career of this Nina Simone regular)
as well as French born Armenian folk singer Onnik Dinkjian and reid player Steve
Bogoshian (both from the band The House Of The Seven Uncles) as well as the
esteemed Turkish raised Kanun player Ahmet Yatman. As one of the very few early
American recorded authentic Middle Eastern fusion record Come With Me To The
Casbah has piqued a refined interest in a new generation of progressive world
music collector resulting in a distinct drought in original Ganimian pressings on
the collectors’ market earning Chick’s name a rising placeholder on the want lists
of DJs, vinyl hounds and ethno psychedelia collectors.
This LP includes all of Ganimians recordings including the rare singles for Atco
and East West which sit awkwardly next to bizarre and unique takes on popular
American standards enhancing the exciting freak factor of this record which simply
could not be made by today’s stifling self-aware anti-standards. Aside from rare
(poorly recorded) private family tapes this album is the only chance to hear the
music of this lost enigma of early world music, Eastern fusion and a missing kink
in the fabric of New York pop music history captured before his short stint as an
exotic Herbie Mann sideman which proceeded his migration into obscurity and
his well-imparted tragic struggle with alcohol dependency depriving pop culture
of a forward thinking pioneer who paved the way for the more credible exponents
of the cross-continental Indo fusion enigma such as
Item Details
Item No: 483138
Artist: Ganimian & His Oriental Music
Title: Come With Me To The Casbah
Label: Cacophonic
Catalog No: 16CACKLP
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Original
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Folk
Available since: 2016-07-19
Condition: New
Price: $ 17.38
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Oriental Jam
A2 Over The Rainbow
A3 The Whirling Dervish
A4 Play Girl Play
A5 Swingin The Blues
A6 Daddy Lolo
B1 My Funny Valentine
B2 Come With Me To The Casbah
B3 Hedy Lou
B4 Hayastan Moods
B5 Halvah
B6 Nine-Eight
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