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Excellent new band
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   Burka Blue

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   [1]Michael Lund has more on [2]Burka Blue

     Nargiz started the Burka Band when she met a German music producer
     in Kabul in late 2002. The producer was teaching Afghans to play
     modern music, and Nargiz learned to play the drums. One day she
     wondered why all the burkas in Kabul were blue, and together with
     two friends she wrote the song "Burka Blue" which is about burkas
     and the way you feel when you wear them. The song was recorded in
     Kabul with help from the German producers. The band would rehearse
     behind locked doors, so nobody would find out that the women were
     playing music. The burka also helped hide who the band members
     really were.

     Of course it was a joke to sing in the burkas, but it was also
     necessary to wear them. If people in Afghanistan knew who the
     members of the Burka Band were, we could be attacked or killed
     because there are still a lot of religious fanatics here, says
     Nargiz, who hasn't told any of her friends that she has played in
     the Burka Band.

     In 2003 the German record label Ata Tak released the song in
     Germany and the song became a hit in German clubs after it had been
     remixed by a German DJ. The Burka Band even performed at a big
     concert in Köln during a trip to Germany . Unfortunately, Nargiz
     couldn't join the band in Köln because she had to work, but she
     followed all the hype from her home in Kabul.

   * Link thanks to [3]Cinnamon Stillwell

References

   1. http://www.lnd.dk/index2.htm
   2. http://www.lnd.dk/burkaband_eng.htm
   3. http://cinnamonstillwell.blogspot.com/