3 Mustaphas 3

[shookrunner]

Hah! If she me marries a taxi driver I frankly dont give a damn

[shookrunner]

Hah! If she me marries a taxi driver I frankly dont give a damn

[Jefflouiseroger]

Absolutely fantastic ! I miss Uncle patrel !

[AndrewTurney]

Yes I still have my little diamond shaped enamel badge of theirs, and Globestyle T shirt, in fact I used to print them in the 80's still have screen even!

[AndrewTurney]

Yes I still have my little diamond shaped enamel badge of theirs, and Globestyle T shirt, in fact I used to print them in the 80's still have screen even!

[edgeeffect]

This is so much better quality than my own copy... Thanks. I miss Alter Image.

[ZenGangster]

Forward in all directions!

[bjart23]

Friend of Mustapha, I drink to remember!

[jeanlessing]

The name of the first song is "Ljubav Kraj/Izvora/Zvezdanovo". It's on their debut album "Shopping".

[musicfirstlover1959]

1. Living in Berlin in the mid 80s

2. Listening to John Peel

3. Hearing about 3 Mustaphas 3

4. Going to see them in concert in Ballhaus Naunynstr.

5. Buying their first record at the concert

6. Listening their music through all the years

7. Is it possible, to forget them?

[shabby742]

My Heart Is Full.

[PlanetTharg]

Fantastic! Saw them in Guildford one night, sharing a bill with Kathryn Tickell - can't imagine a better way to spend an evening (at least, not while wearing clothes). Took all the tapes out to GW1; perfect antidote to the Lisa Stansfield/ George Michael cr@p emanating from the other tents.

And for AvrilLavignesDad and t'other Janner - could be worse, you could be sat 16 miles north in Tavistock...

[AvrilLavignesDad]

@PlanetTharg Yes, being sat in Tavistock would be worse. But many more heroic tractor drivers to drink with and share tractor stories ! Forwards ........

[PlanetTharg]

@AvrilLavignesDad ...in all directions!

[NinaSoho]

im the 100 person!!! :DD i love his music

[dingram3]

this brings back memories...great stuff!

[khtervola]

If a part of the message of this video is a poor standard of living, the cure ought to be easy: cultivate valuable things that you want in the society and in the world, pay FAIRLY for them, enjoy them like you can enjoy sunshine, and drop nasty things away, do not support them and do not bother anything for them. Pray for good, not for good in this nasty world but for a world that is amazingly good: you can bear it! Prayers are plans, so do not mix reality into them, choose just all your ideals!

[repeatuntilchange]

my nose is full of beer and i still wonder why

[davyl42]

Well, I guess it wasn't 1980 since Wikipedia has them forming in 1982! I must have heard them on one of my visits home...

[davyl42]

I heard them regularly on Peel in the late 70's, maybe 1980. Moved to the 'States after that, and in the '90's the wife and I (and maybe 50 other lucky folks) saw them play at least a 2-hr set at a Unitarian church (!) in Winston-Salem, NC. Wonderful, wonderful! I got a great "Forward in all directions: t-shirt which I tragically lost. I have the motto permanently written on my office whiteboard - since I'm a programmer it seemed to be appropriate.

[shookrunner]

I love so much - 3 mustaphas 3...seriously!

[wantedthedudetoolate]

Wonderful music, thank you. Heard it on the John Peel Show ages ago. Absolutely great.

[door2yourheart]

Congrats to the glorious Astana team in the Tour of France country cycle race. They do not get paid, they do it for love of Kazakhstan!

[Groovecat68]

I had an lp by these guys, and remember one guy was credited with playing the "expensive trumpet"....

[Paellaaaa]

that was my father.

[shemp1972]

Awesome! Much respect to your father!! Musical brilliance and wit....

[Groovecat68]

Awesome! Much respect to your father!! Musical brilliance and wit... Best Regards to ya, Paellaaa!

[amusia111]

This is terrific! Yes, they certainly predate Borat, and I'll bet Cohen saw them. I saw 3 Mustaphas 3 in Burlington, Vermont in 1990, as part of a big benefit show tour. They played about a half hour and were incredible. Drummer was amazing. After the show they were in the lobby selling t-shirts and CDs. I bought a t-shirt for "Soup of the Century". I asked one of them where they were from, and he looked down and around before saying, "out of town". All total deadpan. Incredible band.

[apb6of9]

we saw 3m3 twice gloucester and clevedon near bristol when womad took place cant remember the year fantastic band loved them so much

[xdarawish]

megale moustafa !!! anapse to tsigaro !!!

[dont1975]

Hahahah cool... Bosnia :)

Didnt know that this show existed :D

[door2yourheart]

~`~`~`~`Very Genius music and I Much  Like it a Lot! Please you all to buy Al Fez Falafel mix please, it very Nice!~`~`~`~`~`. ~`~`~`Great Canal at the Brooklands is Wonderful Trading Route, also many fish for eat.~`~`~`

[AvrilLavignesDad]

I used to love these guys. A pity no-one has picked up on the fact they were doing 'Borat' stuff before even Borat was. Time for a 3 Mustaphas 3 renaissance ?

[Yehudittx]

@AvrilLavignesDad the Borat link is right on. It's always time for a 3M3 revival!

[AvrilLavignesDad]

@Yehudittx Friend of Mustapha !!! Let's drink to remember ........

I suddenly realise where my my fanatical love of 'Fanfare Ciocarlia' and their music came from ..... I was just looking for a '3 Mustapha's 3' surrogate :-)

[GayleMI]

I'm indebted for your providing the only video I've yet seen of the Beatles of world music.

[berylminnie]

Excellent, thanks for posting. Saw them in London (Camden somewhere I think) in early '90's. I had read that one of them was obsessed with my football team -Plymouth Argyle- so I wore a shirt to the gig. He mocked me from the stage and called it a rugby shirt. Cheers mate.

[AvrilLavignesDad]

Another Plymouthian 3 Mustaphas fan ? Don't take it personally, everyone mocks Plymouth Argyle !

[oisiigyouza]

i love this song's rhythm.;)

How cuteness:))

[ruleta74835]

Love these dudes! I first heard them on New Sounds on WNYC in the late 80's.

[kcufdam]

Fringe Club Edinburgh in the 80.s I think. On mushrooms.

[BillieMacG]

Ljubav Karj Izvora is the first song, the second is Shouffi Rhirou

[isfahani]

Ljubav Kraj Izvora with possibly Zvezdanovo (Skupovo) Kolo also.

[Alkenui]

What's the name of the first song? It's just amazing! :D

[bligny54]

I saw them twice in London. Just fantastic. I miss them. But I have all their albums (and a tshirt). Thanks for posting.

[edgeeffect]

I just wish that someone could post some more bits from Alter Image on YouTube!

[edgeeffect]

This is my favourite video of all time. I couldn't believe anyone else had a copy. Fantastic!!!!!

[sirjoe]

I would have loved to have seen them :(

[solazoth]

Great Video. Saw them thrice in NYC. Well 2 2/3 times, since the last was the infamous 3 mustapha lite tour, also known as 3 mustapha 2, when Sabah was left behind with Niaveti, mid tour.

I am told they did a tv appearance on Tom Snyder show, Tomorrow, circa 1990. Anyone got that?

[isfahani]

It sounds too bizarre to be true: Tom Snyder vs 3 Mustaphas 3! I'll ask Sabah if this indeed happened.

[numofan]

They were a very accomplished band; lots of fun (without all the "comedy") live.

Sadly, Niaveti 3 (flute, newsman in vid) died this May.

[tubetuble]

Thanks a lot! :)

[1971000000]

Thanks so much for posting. I saw these nutters play in Cardiff once and never heard anything of them since. Awesome.

[kcufdam]

seen them in the Fringe club in Edinburgh a few times in the early 90's.

[billmageeblues]

I want for a 3 Mustaphas 3 Tshirt. XXL please you make?

[AlysounRI]

WOW!!! WOW!!! I was lucky enough to see them play twice in Cambridge, Mass in the early 90s. But I never saw them with Lisa. They were amazing in concert. I asked them all to sign a little shriner doll for me. Super nice guys!! Just amazingly great in concert. During "Anapse to tsigaro", Hijaz (Ben M.) was literaly writing on the floor just sawing away at his violin!!! Sabah, bah, give me Houzam anyday :)

[AlysounRI]

Oops, I meant Lavra, not Lisa. Thanks SO SO much for uploading this. I wish there were more clips!!

[lordstobbo]

Best Norf Lahndan Balkan Combo of all time! Thanks for posting!

[HalaBasinah]

Oh, I remember these guys! My parents used to play them when I was a kid. I had the biggest crush on Sabah...he has fantastic eyebrows.

Forward in all directions!

[Thorbuj]

This video was produced by AFTER IMAGE for the Channel 4 Arts Series ALTER IMAGE. Directed by Jane Thorburn

[raahead]

They supported Mar Almond at the Festival Hall in 84. They brought a huge melon on stage and shared it out, great band.

[isfahani]

higgas8 - upon investigation, the singer (Sabah Habas) is the same. The delivery, however, is radically different.

[ivanskiskavar]

"whaddauknow"  - Thanks for the link, I've been after that Peel session for bloody ages!

Had server problem trying to reply to your message so have posted here. Cheers.

[TheReverendMaxRipple]

Ivanskisavar - spread the word! Do we all get to know the link?

[AlysounRI]

Ivan, I have all of the 12 inch singles lps ... it's on Trouble Fezz meets 3 Mustaphas 3 but I have no way to convert my LPs to digital format. If I did then you could hear it again, the wolves and chilling, but the bears are very friendly!!

[ivanskiskavar]

Thanks for the info,AlysounRI...and many apologies to the RevMaxRipple for not getting back - sorry!

[AlysounRI]

Ugh, Ivan, I lie!! If you buy the CD reissue of Bam: Big Mustaphas Play Stereolocalmusic, you can hear your chilling tale and also Cabra!!!

[ivanskiskavar]

Does anyone know if the John Peel Sessions they did 83/84 are available anywhere? I remember hearing "A Chilling Tale Part 2" and would love to hear it again.

[argonsteele]

yeah, mostly seeing this just makes me sad, too.  Greatest live concert I was ever at (better perhaps than even the great Fela Kuti)! Tomorrow I listen only to FEZ!

[julietaron]

The world is a slightly sadder place without these guys playing together. Happy to say that I saw them play live once, at that little Los Angeles dive, the Palomino. Forward in All Directions!

[doyle6315]

Me and my mates saw them at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1986 and we pissed ourselves laughing for days and days afterwards! What a troop!

[higgas8]

Today I've heard a version of "Ljubav Kraj Izvora" from "Play Musty for Me" and found that the singer is totally different than in this video. Besides that, he sings with english accent there (though I still can't figure out, what is the "original" language :))

[4bibimimi]

Vi Bist Du Geveyzen Far Prohibish'n?

Uncle Patrel speaks in gravest tone of a time when the potentest of drink one obtain at Crazy Loquat was a little saffron tea with enormous quantity of honey. Szegerely dentists were most busy that year!

Forward In All Directions!!

[jasetheace0012]

Great Band

[higgas8]

Great! "Apsalutna ahuitelnie, narmalnie... 3 Mustafy 3..."

[Bluefairy513]

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU

[BurnsideCroft]

Brothers lost and found! Wild rovings since the 80s! Spread out a spare mattress. Open the raki, I am come home!

[isfahani]

The 12 string in question is called a Cumbus, the C should have a a little curl underneath it to note Turkish origin/pronunciation, but the keyboard is broken. Pronounces SHJumBush or maybe just JUMbush. Mustaphas Reunion?

[alanfbshaw]

By the Hand of Mehmet that never sleeps! Have been hooked on the Mustaphas since hearing them on Peel mid 80s. Only in last year or so tracked down CDs from record company (with postcard personally signed by Uncle!). Godlike.

[Joannasof]

These men are absolutely a joy. Their music is intelligent and spans over so many languages and countries.

[justehoward]

I only expanded the info text when it was playing; I missed the whole Altered Images series as I spent much of that year waiting on banquets and functions from 6PM 'til 3 or 4AM. The comedy bits worked for me and I'm glad they're in. Any idea what that 12-string plucked banj- style instrument is called?

[mirrorp00l]

justehoward: its a cumbus

[justehoward]

Cool, thankyou mirrorp00l. That makes a new addition to the list of instruments I'm hoping to acquire somewhere along the line and, looking slightly more involved than a bozouki, its Wanning Index value is up there.

[b0thers0me]

Oh, thank you so much. I've been a fan of the mustaphas for years. What a strange and wonderful treat.

[josefsilacek]

Wow!

[bluemonday1963]

My uncle loves this.

[shredlessmarmalade]

You can't coat a wolf in chocolate because the wolf already has its own fur.

[robfreytag]

Brilliant! Shuffirhiro.

[FranciscoSmirsley]

Is that all?! I want more !! :-(

[annatassell]

me too!  Where can we get it?

Peace!

[ernomijland]

They were brilliant and introduced me to the great Balkan music. Ivo Papasov, Boban Markovic, Fanfare Ciocarlia and many more followed... Thanks for posting this one.

[funketabla1]

fala, merci, gracias, shukran, toda, madaase, tashakur, efkaristo, damyawad, shukria, thank you, thank you, thank you!  This is wonderful to see!!!!

[marteletram]

wow il sont aussi fou que je l'imaginai je les adores

[brooklandsboys]

take it to the fridge!

[slobls]

absolutly amazing wot a brilliantly crazy band

[feelock]

(deep sigh)

Such fab musos ...

Fee x

[77lespaul77]

Fantastic -- I'm so glad this video exists! Five enthusiastic stars! Thank you brooklandsboys so much!

[nikonezna]

And if you like 3M3 come and see the London Gypsy Orchestra at the Inn on the Green (near Ladbroke Grove tube) on quatorze juillet this year - uh, that's Bastille Day, but in London, so we all eat coff sweets, not being able to read/understand French proply... I mean 14th July. We are relatively wonderful, so do please come see us! See an email address that includes london gypsy and orchestra with a . co and a uk in it...

[nikonezna]

Oi Boze, fantasticzne! Szegerely greetings, etc etc etc. If you think this is incoherent, then it probly is, and I don't care (she can marry a taxi driver, I still don't care). Seriously, this is a wonderful vid and there must be more. 3M3 at the ICA? I saw it on *local* TV in the 80s before my first fez - somebody please post it on *local* world YouTube, even in a *gas* or mechanical version. 'Gdze sa chlopzy z tamteg lat?' Uh, answers on a postcard with EC stamp...

[djScrawl]

Ware's the stunningly wonderful and cosmically marvelous button?

No! Everyone knows that Ware is a small town in Hertfordshire, England. - Ian Last-FM/group/3+Mustaphas+3

[taracatalin]

Absolutely fantastic to see this. Thank you SO much.

Do you have more?????

[brooklandsboys]

I don't think so. Didn't know I had this one until I found it on the end of a vid I was digitising a couple of days ago.I have a stack more to go through, rest assured if I find anything out of the ordinary it will end up here eventually!

[taracatalin]

I really loved the Mustaphas when they first were around. Am still in touch with Uncle Patrel ( Lu) and Sabah Habas ( Colin).