Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar’s debut album is an explosive mix of heavy Arabian grooves, global psychedelia and North African trance music. The band calls it "Arabian fuzz." Brazenly electric and deeply connected.

Guests include Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys).

When continents collide, they make a thunderous sound. Al-Qasar create the soundtrack to that fission on their full-length debut, Who Are We? It is music for a world in flux, with its ancestors deep in the past, but something that could only have been born in the 21st century. Arabian fuzz, they term it, a vision that’s brazenly electric and deeply connected to its roots. But it had a definite starting point.

“An intoxicating, highly torqued vision of a psychedelic Arab culture its protagonists dub “Arabian Fuzz”.”
**** Financial Times


“Its eight songs marry Arabic folk and dance band aesthetics to modern rock instrumentation and production values … Al-Qasar pull off the trick of making the most comfortable listener feel like they’re front and centre in a moment of insurgency.”
-- The Wire

“A brilliant package of transformed traditions wrapped up in electrifying futurism; the sounds of Arabia, North Africa and beyond are thrust into a dynamic, unifying and eclectic direction.”
-- Monolith Cocktail