Jeju Afrobeat band Omar and the Eastern Power transcends boundaries
Posted : 2021-04-27 18:59
Updated : 2021-04-27 18:59
By Jon Dunbar
Omar Benassila doesn t care much for boundaries, either in music or nations.
If he did, he might not have left his home country of Morocco and settled in Korea, where he started Omar and the Eastern Power. It s an ever-evolving African-Korean four-piece band most simply described as Afrobeat, with influences from dub, funk, folk and sufi music among others. It s an accumulation of the life experiences of Omar, drummer Zaky Wael from Egypt, and Korean members, Tehiun on bass, and Oh Jin-woo playing guitar.
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