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[MUSIC REVIEW] Haale at Helsinki

4.14.07
HAALE
Club Helsinki
Great Barrington, Mass.
4.13.07

review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING magazine

In her show at Club Helsinki last night, Persian-American singer/bandleader Haale claimed for her own a tradition in rock going back several decades. Her music recalled the modal sounds of The Doors and the Velvet Underground and even the modal grunge of Nirvana, but in Haale's hands these musical strategies never sounded (or looked) more beautiful, organic, and compelling.

Defying her small frame, Haale, who accompanied herself on guitar and was backed by another guitarist and a percussionist, was a vocal powerhouse, drawing on traditional Sufi singing to deliver her original songs as well as some based on ancient Sufi texts by poets including Rumi and Attar, in both English and Farsi.

Songs typically started slowly and then kicked into double-time rhythms. At times the sound was like ethereal psychedelic rock, at other times it was more straight-ahead Middle Eastern rock. Haale's husky vibrato was the star of the evening, the point of which was not so much to stake a claim for Persian rock but rather for a new rock music of the Global Village.





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