Interview with City of Djinn (2018)

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Recorded at KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University) in Feb 2018. Stanford Lecturer/Arabology Host Dr. Ramzi Salti interviews City of Djinn band members Marwan Kamel and Micah Bezold during their visit to Stanford in February 2018. The duo is joined in the studio by Leyya Mona Tawil of Temescal Art Center in Oakland. City of Djinn is a Chicago-based duo that creates a sonic tapestry of dark, psychedelic, drone rock that draws from experimental musivernacular as well maqam tradition. More info at https://www.facebook.com/cityofdjinn/ Leyya directs and curates Dance Elixir/Temescal Art Center in Oakland, California--a venue that also operates as a subsidized rental space to hundreds of Bay Area artists, healers, educators and activists. See https://www.temescalartcenter.org/