Tuesday, March 22, 2011

LIBYA - One day they will make a concert, a true

Tarik Fakroum, a fisherman who lives in the next street, did not want this old fast. He inherited an old guitar from his brother died young, and an uncle brought him to Europe audiotapes - of heavy metal, among others. "I was 16 and I knew it was going to be my music," recalls Fakroum. "Before, I listened only varieties ultra-rigid state television.

For Gaddafi, even jazz was underground." When young, he tried to produce in a noisy courtyard overlooking the street, he had his first contact with politics. "I was arrested, I was told that what I was doing was not Libyan." He said he could get permission to make music, but not for the noise.

Four years ago, he organized his first "concert". At home, with an audience of about twenty boys. "Without making any noise, because we failed to get permission." Fakroum is proud, though a lack of noise is a great compromise for a heavy metal musician. Without girls, because outside of "bigots" on the scene to ensure the character, there were also officers from Gaddafi.

The girls were not arrested, but they could be interviewed and to agree to treat whores, for sure. Fakroum group has two members and is an English name, "Brutal of Terrorism", even if he does not know the language. Gaddafi has removed foreign languages in many schools and a son of a fisherman as he had no opportunity to continue his education.

Where does this name? "Even before the insurgency, we said we lived in Benghazi on a frightening and brutal land. We chose this music for crying out against what we hated and tell what we liked," said Ben Ali Amer, the other half of the group. A few days ago, he composed a new song titled Victims of Benghazi, dedicated to "shahid" killed in the fighting against men of Gaddafi.

The Internet has brought a breath of fresh air in Benghazi, nine years ago. But the authorities have managed to impose self-censorship by playing on fear of security services, effective even on the Web. When Khalifa Moulfalla (in an oil company lawyer), a revolutionary on Facebook, released in January a sentence criticism of the government of Tripoli, only three of its 308 network of friends responded.

Two are in London, the third in Benghazi. "They cut off my internet in my home two days after," says Khalifa. Now, Khalifa, as Tarik Ali bin Amer and Fakroum, practice shooting, because in a few days, they want to join the front. "Zenga, Zenga!" they chanted, laughing Gaddafi's speech that promised to clean Libya rebels "dead end after dead end", that is to say, "Zenga, Zeng" in the dialect of western Libya.

In eastern Libya, mocked the dictator in many songs, the members of "Terrorism of Brutal" quite surprised by their success, mix of new songs every day. "He said he was the king of Africa, but it is a monkey monkeys. We were ridiculed for forty years," said El-Kish. What do they dream of youth in Libya's Gaddafi after? Bin Amer evokes the freedom of expression.

"Before, if we spoke frankly, it was the prison or even death," he says. Abdulsalem wants to find a good job and save enough to open a first dance club in Cyrenaica. "To give the first concert on a real stage," replied Tarik Fakroum.

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