Pop music from arabophonic countries is often so amazingly insane - I recall being transfixed in the back of a Moroccan cab, delirious from tainted couscous, zooming around hairpin curves in the Rif Mountains at 70 miles an hour and wondering, "what the fuck IS this?" I became enamored for life. The instrumentals remind me of the backings behind the late great Oum Kalthoum.