For over 10 years, Nader Mansour has been at the helm of The Wanton Bishops, a band that has already set impressive accents with two albums. They skillfully blend oriental melodies with influences from blues, industrial and psychedelia.
The Wanton Bishops are the realisation of the visionary ideas of an extraordinarily versatile artist—Nader Mansour, born in Beirut. After the release of his debut album, Sleep With The Lights On, a delta blues opus inspired by legends such as RL Burnside and Muddy Waters, Nader travelled to the deep south of the USA to experience the origins of Mississippi blues first-hand.
When he returned to Lebanon, he was a changed man with a newly inspired musical vision. His music gradually unfolded from the swampy plains of the Mississippi Delta up into the mountains of Lebanon. Nader describes this shift by saying, «I'm finally getting to the core of the music I want to create. This core is confusing but unique in a special way—just like our identity as Lebanese in Beirut, a constant cultural crossroads.»
This new musical direction was first hinted at on the EP Nowhere Everywhere and now finds its full realisation in the band's eagerly awaited second studio album.
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