Kiya introduced me to Omar Souleyman last night. Souleyman is a Syrian singer mixing the traditional styles of dabke dance with live instruments and weird frantic spazzcore keyboard synths.

Omar Souleyman is a musician from Syria. He began his career in 1994, working with a number of musicians with whom he still performs, and around five hundred studio and live albums have been released under his name. (Wikipedia)

Björk spoke highly of Souleyman during NPR’s You Must Hear This segment in June of 2009. You’ll also have to check out this montage video with group dancing; he also makes it rain money near the end of the clip.