Bahar

BAHAR Documentary Ali Bahar sang rock in Bahraini dialect, and for two decades the Gulf sang it back. From a neighbourhood in Muharraq close enough to hear the sea, he and guitarist Khalid Al-Dhawadi built Al-Ekhwa Al-Bahrainia — 317 songs, a rock lineup, pearl-diving rhythms running underneath, and no record industry behind any of it. They went from playing weddings to filling stadiums across the Gulf. In Oman a 120 thousand people came; the concert was stopped after five songs and the band was flown out by helicopter. Ali Bahar died in 2011, at fifty-one. Khalid Al-Dhawadi outlived him by th