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Abbas is a talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Manchester who sings and plays left-handed acoustic, 12-string acoustic, electric and bass guitars; sitar, tamburas, western drums and tabla drums.
Abbas has played at many venues in England, such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, The Royal Opera House & City Hall in London, Live Theatre & Gosforth Civic Centre twice in Newcastle, Colchester Music Institute, Lustleigh Village Hall in Exeter, St. George Hall in Bristol twice, Brighton-Hove, Lady Wilton Hall in Manchester, University of London, San Moritz Club, Roadhouse, Spice of Life & Lark in the Park. In 2004 he toured the UK & the east coast of USA; Boston, NYC, New Jersey, Baltimore, Atlanta, New Orleans & Chicago. In 2006 he opened the acoustic show playing at the televised Isle Of Wight Bestival concert.
Recently, Abbas performed 8 shows at Olympic Village 2012 in London, The Theatre Royal, acoustic stage. The event was known as sounds from a small planet, the second annual international summer festival, supporting the pre-Edinburgh fringe festival.
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Abbas has recorded on two world music CDs, for Koch Records at CTS Studios and for Navras Records. He has performed and worked with renowned world music artists, members of Jools Holland
Steve Enemy said:
This album is fantastic, I managed to get one of the few signed copies!Take Me Away really rocks with it's blusey verse & grungey chorus; the vocals seem to tear through any other instrument; Plastic Smiles comes across like an acoustic sea wave with crashing guitar sounds & backing vocals clashing for attention.Hope turns To Dispare is a well written song, a great live number with lovely dark lyrics; Wish I Lived Here Now with it's excellent recording, takes one to a place where questions are given priority to answers.Turn Away (she's walking away), with it's searing solo & great arrangement is a lighter number but still a rocker. I've recently discovered that Abbas played all the instruments on this track including the guitars & drums, amazing.Some Day I Will Recall with it's references to addiction & it's subsequent turmiol has a very different funky sound.The last song on Demolition, Caught Me, rocks the hardest & could be compared to a cross between Guns N' Roses & Nirvana. I think we all remember what happened when the paths of those two bands crossed! Demolition seem to capture the essence of a real, live, gritty studio sound; with a 'that will do,' attitude because that is what the artist wanted.This works where others have failed...Review by Steve Enemy
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