The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108516 Message #2259240
Posted By: Fred McCormick
11-Feb-08 - 05:19 AM
Thread Name: World Routes as a Podcast
Subject: RE: World Routes as a Podcast
I just looked up the word rabiz on the Internet and it came up with the following:
"Rabiz (n). A slang word describing a social class of Armenians that exhibit socially questionable behaviors." It then goes on to describe rabiz music; "ironically, is an adaptation of Turkish songs adapted for a rabiz-Armenian audience."
It also accuses Rabiz's of smelling strongly of onions!
Hate to condemn anyone before I've heard their music but it sounds to me as though it might be the music of an urban social underclass, rather like rembetika or fados. In which case I doubt that I'd dig it, and I doubt that it would sound much like the Azerbaijani music on World routes.