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Jeju Afrobeat band Omar and the Eastern Power transcends boundaries Posted : 2021-04-27 18:59 Updated : 2021-04-27 18:59 By Jon Dunbar Omar Benassila doesnt care much for boundaries, either in music or nations. If he did, he might not have left his home country of Morocco and settled in Korea, where he started Omar and the Eastern Power. Its an ever-evolving African-Korean four-piece band most simply described as Afrobeat, with influences from dub, funk, folk and sufi music among others. It...