MKNZ Ilirska Bistrica, Friday, 22.09.2000:

ARAB ON RADAR (USA) + TRABAKULA (Ilirska Bistrica)

The invisible revolution is at hand.

ARAB ON RADAR is a unique and unprecedented brand of psycho-neurological terrorism. The release of the album "Soak The Saddle" and subsequent tour marks the most momentous strike to date in the series of assaults upon planet Earth.

ARAB ON RADAR perform frenzied ablutionary music.
The compositions disrupt the model functions of the human brain. Unwitting victims have experienced seizures and uncontrolable urination. Other symptoms have included: chronic masturbation, advanced sexual promiscuity, and acute paranoia. At studies conducted by M.I.T., 33% of the sobjects exposed to Arab On Radar experienced severe diffusion of the brain, leading to spontaneous sexual deviations. These studies were halted and the findings are left unpublished. In the US alone it is estimated 3 million people will test AOR positive by the years` end. The FBI is still in the early stages of the investigation.

An ingenious plague, ARAB ON RADAR has been genetically engineered to avoid easy detection. Operating under the guise of a musical group, ARAB ON RADAR travel via underground network. It tours from city to city, mutating and evolving with each sweep. Their "music" is a sonic assault. Powerful and cathartic, often termed NO WAVE by those at a loss of words, it is unlike anything you`ve ever heard. The latest strain is the most dangerous. Now free-er, more alive and unrooted, any semblance to daddy`s "Rock N Roll" is long gone. Comparisons to groups like Chrome, Contortions, Albert Ayler and early P.I.L., are ill attempts to explain something so new it has no frame of reference.

Live, ARAB ON RADAR generate more energy and more hysteria than any band you have ever seen. Audience members have been known to have seizures, heart attacks, and heightened states of sexual arousal while watching the band perform. This is no joke. This band will infect you.

"Soak The Saddle" (produced by Weasel Walter - The Flying Luttenbachers, Hatewave, Lake Of Dracula) is said to be the "most daring and exciting record ever made". This is true. However, use with caution. SKIN GRAFT Records and IMD make no offer of indemnity to those who experience bizarre side-effects after exposure to Arab On Radar.

Consider yourselves warned.

Band photo