Roger FAKHR
Fine Anyway
Habibi Funk Germany
Rel: 26 Apr 21
Folk/Americana
| Side 1 - Track 1. Lady Rain |
| Side 1 - Track 2. Insomnia Blue |
| Side 1 - Track 3. Fine Anyway |
| Side 1 - Track 4. Express Line |
| Side 1 - Track 5. My Baby, She Is As Down As I Am |
| Side 1 - Track 6. Everything You Want |
| Side 1 - Track 7. Waiting For It Everyday |
| Side 1 - Track 8. Dancer On The Ceiling |
| Side 1 - Track 9. Sad Sad Songs |
| Side 1 - Track 10. Little Woman By My Side |
| Side 2 - Track 1. Every Body Is Going Home |
| Side 2 - Track 2. Sitting In The Sun |
| Side 2 - Track 3. Had To Come Back Wet |
| Side 2 - Track 4. The Wizard |
| Side 2 - Track 5. (Such A) Trip Thru Time |
| Side 2 - Track 6. Keep Going |
| Side 2 - Track 7. Gone Away Again |
Arabic funk, soul and folk specialists Habibi Funk are masters at digging deep to find extremely rare and unreleased music. Even so, their latest offering is particularly obscure. It's a retrospective of 1970s material by a Lebanese singer-songwriter called Roger Fakhr, who put out one self-released tape in the mid 1970s, of which only 200 copies were ever made. Some of those songs feature on this retrospective, but the majority of the material is unreleased tracks from Fakhr's archive. Interestingly, the majority of the music on offer is sung in English rather than Arabic and sits somewhere between American railroad blues, English revivalist folk of the sort popular in the late '60s and early '70s, sun-soaked Californian folk, and gentle folk. A genuinely eye-opening musical treat.