Dežo Ursiny | ja

Dezider Ursiny a.k.a. Dežo Ursiny (IPA: ['deʒo 'ʊrsini]) (4 October 1947 - 2 May 1995) was a Slovak rock musician and a television and film dramaturge and director. He is considered one of the most important personalities of Slovak rock music and one of the most talented and unique Slovak popular music composers. He belongs to a wide group of the so called legends of Czechoslovak Big Beat, which was a name given to underground music movement in Czechoslovakia especially in the late 1960s. He was a member of now legendary Big Beat bands The Beatmen and The Soulmen in...

Dezoriental is a fascinating group from France. Abdel Waheb Sefsaf (song, derbouka) and Alaoua Idir (ud, guitar) had been interested in their youth little in their Algerian roots: they had a preference for Western music and secluded themselves as much as possible from the Arab music where their parents listened to. Nowadays the pair composes music in which clearly influences from the Maghreb can be discovered together with Jean-Luc Frappa (accordion). But not only by Arab music, also by music from India, Pakistan, Eastern Europe, jazz and the traditional French ballad they are influenced. The name Dezoriental not only refers...