Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. Terry Hall’s career has always been one of spotting trends and breaking new ground and Mushtaq, a UK-based, Middle Eastern musician with a background in hip-hop, reggae and r’n’b.
The Hour of Two Lights is not a Terry Hall solo album, although it may have started that way. First, Mushtaq, once of British-Asian pioneers Fun-Da-Mental, came on board as an equal partner. Then the cast list expanded to include a Tunisian singer, a Syrian flautist, an Egyptian who had settled in Iraq, Hebrew vocalists, Turkish musicians, a 12 year old Lebanese girl called Natasha, a blind Algerian rapper from Paris, a troupe of Polish gypsy refugees and a septuagenarian clarinetist famous for playing the Pink Panther theme. And Blur’s Damon Albarn is also in there somewhere.| |
