
CRAMMED ARCHIVES 2 - RARE GLOBAL POP 1980S
Nadjma - Rapture in Baghdad (1985) feat. Adrian Sherwood
Arabic electropop & proto-experimental drum’n’bass (Irak/CH/UK)
Vocalist Nadjma (a Baghdad-born Iraqi-Swiss) and jazz guitarist & composer Gabor G.Kristof (whose family had left Hungary in 1956 to settle in Switzerland) had recorded three fun electropop tracks sung in Arabic. We came up with the idea to release them as one side of a mini-album, and to ask celebrated dub wizard Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate and many more) to do some radical remixes which would make up the second side. Adrian accepted, but declined the offer to listen to the original songs prior to the mixing session, arguing that he preferred to discover them on the spot. He flew to Lausanne,
Vocalist Nadjma (a Baghdad-born Iraqi-Swiss) and jazz guitarist & composer Gabor G.Kristof (whose family had left Hungary in 1956 to settle in Switzerland) had recorded three fun electropop tracks sung in Arabic. We came up with the idea to release them as one side of a mini-album, and to ask celebrated dub wizard Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate and many more) to do some radical remixes which would make up the second side. Adrian accepted, but declined the offer to listen to the original songs prior to the mixing session, arguing that he preferred to discover them on the spot. He flew to Lausanne,