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Mich Gerber — Haboob
Album: Tales Of The Wind
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6.7

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Total ratings: 2760









Released: 2004
Length: 5:49
Plays (last 30 days): 2
(Instrumental)
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 rromulus wrote:

It starts out promising, but then it becomes increasingly repetitive :-(



Agreed! I can only take it so much....next
 jukes1 wrote:

The only way this could get worse is if we had Robert Plant wailing off-key over the whole thing.


Wrong, but I laughed out loud, so I'm giving you a thumb's up.  Keep 'em coming.
Wow, this sounds a lot like Christophe Goze's Sirocco (sp?)

I know that song from the Kelly Slater Pro Surfer game.
 Gaboou wrote:
Uncle Fester is rocking it!


I thought it might be Voldemort.
 tripp1 wrote:
He looks like Uncle Fester in the picture.....cool stuff. 



LOL!   EXCELLENT TUNE!!  Thanx RP!   
He looks like Uncle Fester in the picture.....cool stuff. 
Four clubs! :o)
I often say my job is like doing surgery in a Haboob (in a space the size of a broom closet).
very nice!!
 reallylost wrote:

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!



Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzesty!!  I went +2 to 8 on this one today after actually listening to it all the way through (and having it lead in to "Desert Raven" by Jonathan Wilson (a 9 rated tune for me) - Long Live RP and the Zesty and Eclectic mix!
Not his best. Tends to muzak.
I've described my work conditions as trying to do surgery in a haboob. 
filter stuff down to a micron and package it in a freaking filthy environment.
at least none of my stuff is medical/food use.
 rromulus wrote:

It starts out promising, but then it becomes increasingly repetitive :-(



Like monogamy.
EXCELLENT!!   The more I hear this, the more I like it! RP introduced me to him, and now I like a LOT of his music.  Thanx RP!   
 TeddiB wrote:

When I hear the word Haboob, it means "better close all your windows, turn off the swamp cooler, and get inside before you get a mouthful of dust and have to clean the bloody house after getting it full of red dust!". We have 'em here in Arizona too.

Oh yeah.
We get them here in La Quinta too.



 Gaboou wrote:
Uncle Fester is rocking it!



Too Funny!  GREAT TUNE!!  Thanx RP!   
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Lived in Zurich for 9 years. On the last day before my departure, my wife and me celebrated the city by going to a Mich Gerber concert in the Badi Enge, in front of the Zurich lake and the setting sun with the alps in the background. What a magical moment.
Uncle Fester is rocking it!
 arserocket wrote:

Swiss cheese indeed ... yum yum - needs yodelling and cowbells to complete ...


Thanks for the clichee. Like a piece of chocolate? 
Wow, you even play music from my Home Country Switzerland!. You Guys are unbelievable!
Haboob means Dude :-)
Swiss cheese indeed ... yum yum - needs yodelling and cowbells to complete ...
The only way this could get worse is if we had Robert Plant wailing off-key over the whole thing.
Very 1995 synth sound, reminds me of The Inifnity Project or early Green Nuns of the Revolution. But nowhere near as good unfortunately and at least 10 years too late. It's a 3 from me.
I was thinking I heard this on Kelly Slater Pro Surfer game....

Turns out it was Christopher Goze - Sirocco.

If you like Haboob, check out Sirocco.
 tinabamberger wrote:
Ran quickly to my computor to see which album this mesmerizing music was coming from. thank you for starting my day out with the sublime. Bows to you at RP for making my life zing with joy from your auditory selections.
A great swiss-man
nice segue from Down Like Silver Bill!!
 countyman wrote:

Why did you have to post it four times? He (Bill) gets it on the first try.
 
Server error. Not the poster's fault.
 tinabamberger wrote:
Ran quickly to my computor to see which album this mesmerizing music was coming from. thank you for starting my day out with the sublime. Bows to you at RP for making my life zing with joy from your auditory selections.

 
Why did you have to post it four times? He (Bill) gets it on the first try.
Ran quickly to my computor to see which album this mesmerizing music was coming from. thank you for starting my day out with the sublime. Bows to you at RP for making my life zing with joy from your auditory selections.
Hypnotic. Love it. a 9.
 
 dt12101 wrote:
Just found this service.  I found out about Mich Gerber on Last FM before it's demise.  I really miss it for it's ability to expose me to things I would have never heard otherwise.  I hope RP can do the same. 

 
You won't be disappointed 
Just found this service.  I found out about Mich Gerber on Last FM before it's demise.  I really miss it for it's ability to expose me to things I would have never heard otherwise.  I hope RP can do the same. 
 Foot wrote:

Good question...hailing from ILM?

 
why should bliss ever end?
 Kaw wrote:
It's actually Swiss music. Mich Gerber comes from Bern.
I can asure you that this is a western interpretation of how Moroccan music would sound like.

 
Rather insightful, do tell....
Play some Anouar Brahem next, please!
 
I was certain this was Future Islands! Definite similarity in vocal styles!
{#Heartkiss}
I see that I never reported back, but we did ride the bus for 6.5 hours on the edge of the Sahara desert, to come to a place called Riad Nezha in Merzouga, An oasis, on the edge. This was the soundtrack, par excellence.
It starts out promising, but then it becomes increasingly repetitive :-(
 BLADERUNNER wrote:
is this ever going to end?

 
Good question...hailing from ILM?
It's actually Swiss music. Mich Gerber comes from Bern.
I can asure you that this is a western interpretation of how Moroccan music would sound like.
 TerryS wrote:

Going to ride a bus in Morocco next month, think this needs to be on the mp3 player



 
Sounds like a plan!
 

Going to ride a bus in Morocco next month, think this needs to be on the mp3 player


Love the vibe and groove of this song.  It makes me want to move.
Kinda puts me in the mood for Azam Ali.
 Xstar wrote:

In the immortal words of Quagmire, "I see two chicks wantin to have sex with me.  Heh!!!  Giggity, giggit, gig-gitt-y! {#Dance}

 

 Lumpy13 wrote:

That is  so awesome!!!! Right on the money!!!!


I was perplexed as well so googled it and found it is from the movie Serendipity...
 Lumpy13 wrote:

 
Kenny G's sleazy cousin? 

John Corbett in hipster doofus mode while trapped in someone's bad acid trip?

Help me out here...  
This had me from the first few notes. Love it.....although a Haboob isn't quite as pleasant as this
this makes me crazy. Get up and Dance!! Most Outstanding!!
Bill and Rebecca . . . MANY THANKS for including Mich Gerber in your (almost always great) playlists . . .

Love this song and love "The Endless Song" from Zumurud (or is it Zumurud from The Endless Song)?  {#Wink}

Whatever . . .

When I get my iPod back in commission, I'm definitely including these in the "must add" list that you've helped me develop over the past months.

Have a great 2013! 
This should be the title track to the newly acclaimed CD "Music that Sucks Vol43 : Now that's what I call Sucky"
{#Daisy}
makes me want to belly dance
 Zarba wrote:
Sounds like the song used in John Corbett's characters video in Serendipity
 

{#Yes}   {#Lol}  (see image below {#Arrowd})
I've been hypnotized!
 {#Dancingbanana_2}

Lumpy13 wrote:

 



Much too long!
Is this the 12" or something? Pffff
 BLADERUNNER wrote:
is this ever going to end?
 
Smart money says that it will.
is this ever going to end?
 Misterfixit wrote:
Makes me recall the first scene in "The Fifth Element"  ...  "Habeeb!  More Light!"
 
{#Roflol}


Amazon says it was released in 2004...and... they have a used CD for $83.00

OK...I like it...BUT...


Makes me recall the first scene in "The Fifth Element"  ...  "Habeeb!  More Light!"
{#Bananajam}{#Beat}{#Bananajam}

This is actually from the soundtrack for the little known Miami Vice made-for-TV film entitled "Crockett and Tubbs: Passage to Bangkok (or Death)!" 



Great stuff! More ecletic music from RP!!!
Ohh, so that's what happened to the guy who wrote the soundtracks to Zalmon King's movies.
 Xstar wrote:

In the immortal words of Quagmire, "I see two chicks wantin to have sex with me.  Heh!!!  Giggity, giggit, gig-gitt-y! {#Dance}
 

{#Lol}
I like this. 8
 Tim_in_N_FL wrote:

In the immortal words of Hermann Rorschach, "What do you make of this (see photo above)?"

 
In the immortal words of Quagmire, "I see two chicks wantin to have sex with me.  Heh!!!  Giggity, giggit, gig-gitt-y! {#Dance}
 a_genuine_find wrote:
haboob
 
In the immortal words of Hermann Rorschach, "What do you make of this (see photo above)?"

In the famous words of the prospector from Rudolph..."thmt, thmt, thmt...nothing."
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice......{#Hearteyes}
haboob
 federico wrote:
which shows that even generic muzak can have its low points ...
 
i'm with you.
which shows that even generic muzak can have its low points ...
Intriguing, complex & hard to describe but like it very much - always learning & experiencing on Radio Paradise! 
 gvan wrote:
Plural: Haboobies!
 

haboobist!

 namp wrote:
Just awful... {#Puke}
 
thanks for sharing!

Plural: Haboobies!
 unclehud wrote:
Muzak has finally arrived at RP!  Not that I'm complaining; it takes all kind to keep the world spinning around.
 
it would be nice if this stuff actually did exist on Muzak.

Just awful... {#Puke}
 fredriley wrote:

Because you'd have to run off to another radio station? At least this'll whet your appetite for 'stronger meat', much as Loreena McKevitt's Celtic Lite music is a taster for the real thing. Anyway, this is a mélange of Middle Eastern music and techno, which you might be hard-pushed to find elsewhere (Cheb i Sabbah does stuff like this so worth hunting down), and would you want to listen to this genre all the time? The great thing about RP, and one of the main reasons I stay and contribute to B&B's coffers, is its eclecticism, the sheer variety of musical styles on offer, such that I'm constantly surprised by what comes into my 'phones. I could go walkies to a 'genre' station (iranianradio.com was a fave) but then I'd not hear anything else.

This is pretty damn good. 7 from the Nottingham jury.

Sadly, I still think baby food and Bridge conventions when I see the name Gerber... ;)
 
Good input! I agree with your summary!

I would like it better with different rhythms.  Sounds to me like hummus on white bread, if that's possible.

 kaubey wrote:
A watered-down, boring form of Arabic music?  Why not just listen to the real thing?
 
Because you'd have to run off to another radio station? At least this'll whet your appetite for 'stronger meat', much as Loreena McKevitt's Celtic Lite music is a taster for the real thing. Anyway, this is a mélange of Middle Eastern music and techno, which you might be hard-pushed to find elsewhere (Cheb i Sabbah does stuff like this so worth hunting down), and would you want to listen to this genre all the time? The great thing about RP, and one of the main reasons I stay and contribute to B&B's coffers, is its eclecticism, the sheer variety of musical styles on offer, such that I'm constantly surprised by what comes into my 'phones. I could go walkies to a 'genre' station (iranianradio.com was a fave) but then I'd not hear anything else.

This is pretty damn good. 7 from the Nottingham jury.

Sadly, I still think baby food and Bridge conventions when I see the name Gerber... ;)


A watered-down, boring form of Arabic music?  Why not just listen to the real thing?
Muzak has finally arrived at RP!  Not that I'm complaining; it takes all kinds to keep the world spinning around.

The Endless String Album is probably better. But anyway, Mich Gerber is great.
 Misterfixit wrote:
HabooBs?  Hah!  Boobs!.

Never mind

I like it anyway even if no boobs.
 
I know that's the first thing I thought of... {#Lol}

Still the mind of a 12-year-old boy, after all these years...
 nate917 wrote:

The silhouette is actually a bearded, bespectacled man with scoliosis, facing to our left.
 

Oh my gawd...  Nate917, that's hilarious! But I think we might need to get you out on a date or something...
HabooBs?  Hah!  Boobs!.

Never mind

I like it anyway even if no boobs.


Cool name, terrible music. Haboob: a violent dust storm or sandstorm especially of Sudan.

meh
 manbirdexperiment wrote:
Hee hee, he said 'boob'
 

EVERY SINGLE TIME this song comes on, your words pop out of my mouth!   {#Silenced}
{#Lol}{#Lol}{#Roflol}{#Roflol}Indeed! 

nate917 wrote:

The silhouette is actually a bearded, bespectacled man with scoliosis, facing to our left.
 

I think this one is on the "Kelly Slater - Pro Surfer" Playstation2 game.  It kinda works for surfing.  Not sure who picked it for that.

Q
 Captain-Fishy wrote:

Oh yeah baby, go for it!
 
The silhouette is actually a bearded, bespectacled man with scoliosis, facing to our left.


{#Meditate}  Love this Indian sound.


Oh yeah baby, go for it!
honeygirl wrote:
I see flutes, snakes, & a mesmerizing belly...
I'll settle for the mesmerizing belly, thanks.
I'd also recommend "Asaia" from the same album if you like great beats... smehan55 wrote:
Excellent! What a vibe, what a beat.
Hee hee, he said 'boob'
Excellent! What a vibe, what a beat.
Misterfixit wrote:
AiYee! A Curse Upon Your Infested Armpits Oh White Person of Great Satanic Predilections! May the Fleas of a Million Camels Infest Your Scrofulous and Withered Hanging Dates! Meanwhile, back to the Bong.
Agreed, Dirka dirka jihad. Dirka dirka!
Misterfixit wrote:
AiYee! A Curse Upon Your Infested Armpits Oh White Person of Great Satanic Predilections! May the Fleas of a Million Camels Infest Your Scrofulous and Withered Hanging Dates! Meanwhile, back to the Bong.
Misterfixit wrote:
AiYee! A Curse Upon Your Infested Armpits Oh White Person of Great Satanic Predilections! May the Fleas of a Million Camels Infest Your Scrofulous and Withered Hanging Dates!
"In the category of 'Best Smartass Comment in a Radio Paradise Song Review Thread,' the nominees are . . ." Like the song, BTW.
This always gets my snake dancing
Joe JACKson!
Alvin: That's the worst banjo I ever heard. Dave Seville: That's not a banjo, Alvin, that's a samisen. Alvin: That's the worst samisen I ever heard.
YES!!!! More of this intriguing, esoteric, and eclectic media!!!
He said Boob.
huebdoo wrote:
I wonder if the Taliban get down to this sort of thing? I wonder if those wing nuts in Hamas start grinding to this sort of thing (with RPG on their shoulders) I wonder if they will put a Jihad on my white behind for thinking of them that way Dirka Dirka - Jihad
AiYee! A Curse Upon Your Infested Armpits Oh White Person of Great Satanic Predilections! May the Fleas of a Million Camels Infest Your Scrofulous and Withered Hanging Dates! Meanwhile, back to the Bong.
kazuma wrote:
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm .... exxxxoticccc."
Awesome.