Different Strokes For Different Folks
Al Basim - Revival
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The first-ever official vinyl reissue of Al Basim’s extraordinary 1979 private-press album Revival.
Baghdad-born musician Basim Al-Hashimi recorded Revival during a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the United States in 1978, bringing Arabic musical influences together with the Western rock he had loved through the ’60s and ’70s. The result is a genuinely difficult record to categorise: melodic guitar-led psychedelia gives way to spiritual jazz, kosmische textures, meditative ambience, jazz-inflected grooves and joyful progressive passages.
Licensed directly from Basim Al-Hashimi, this long-awaited reissue from Different Strokes For Different Folks also includes an interview telling the story behind the record and photographs sourced from his personal archive. Despite several previous attempts, Revival has never before received an official vinyl reissue.
For fans of: spiritual jazz · psychedelic rock · kosmische · Middle Eastern psychedelia · private-press discoveries
Details
Label: Different Strokes For Different Folks
Catalogue: DSDF005 / DSDF005C
Format: LP
Release date: 30 October 2026
First-ever official vinyl reissue
Includes interview with Al Basim and archive photography
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