TARIQUA ALAWIYA - The 'Imâra (The Dance Of The Stars) LP NDW The Beths serve up deeply

The Beths serve up deeply emotional lyrics packaged within heavenly sounds that delight in probing the limits of the pop form

Neil Halstead: "We were always ambitious

As of late

his debut LP

This foregrounding of architecture and willingly experimental approach to recording is a wholly integral part of the band’s mode of existence

TARIQUA ALAWIYA - The 'Imâra (The Dance Of The Stars) LP NDW The Beths serve up deeplyThis version of the imra starts with the qahili introduction in the form of a prayer to the prophet, then the tawhid (the affirmation of divine unicity) : l illha illah llah . This same dikhr (psalmody) quickens its pace, at first very slowly, then more and more rapid until the name of Allah is repeated to a binary rhythm. The fuqra will shortly retain only hu (from Allahu) as it is gradually imposed by the qutb (the pole). The hu is transformed by