Boogie Balagan's Lamentation Walloo album is released in Türkiye by Sony Music with the consultancy of  Median Music.

Barrier-breaking rock’n roll

« Boogie Balagan » blends Middle Eastern vibes with exhilarating rock’n roll to convey their message of peace and break down cultural, linguistic, and physical barriers in the Middle East.

In the autoproclamed “Palestlsraeli” duo “Boogie Balagan”, psychedelic rock’n roll meets cool Middle Eastern vibes. Their first album “Lamentation Walloo” is a message of peace and multiculturalism.

First, imagine voices that combine Julio Iglesias drinking straight tequilas and Joe Strummer high on harissa. Then, imagine a Mediterranean Jimmy Page torturing his electric guitar like a Greek bouzouki. Sprinkle it all with an infernal beat of pounding feet, and clapping hands and you get something of the ghost of t-rex smoking a water pipe in Gaza or Farid el Atrache jamming with the New York dools…

The Hebrew word “Balagan” means mess, making “Boogie Balagan” a “messy boogie”.

From Sinai to Muddy Waters blooz, Boogie Balagan has invented a musical couscous marinated in 70’s Oriental with electric spices.

Peace through music

Boogie Balagan is above all a duo. Gabri is the lead singer and Azri is playing the zguitar. A story shared between France “Palestlsrael”.

At the early 2002 they decided to devote themselves entirely to Boogie Balagan and what was at first supposed to be a Muddy Waters covers became a unique project to blend the Middle Eastern groove and language with the raw energy of Robert Johnson. A project which shatters walls and barriers so that all can reunite under the flag of universal rock.

Azri and Gabri sing about reunions, reconciliation and human love. “lamentation walloo” calls for a stop to lamentations and tells the story of an Israeli-Palestinian friendship between children. The lyrics are sung in English, French, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew. They are strung together in a creative urban dialect making this rock’n roll recipe a formidable weapon of peace.