Wielding a battery of exotic instruments that once adorned a thrift-shop front window (bazouki, oud, vina, saz, doumbeg), they were every bit as multi-hued & subject to change as a telescope full of bright bits of colored glass. This wildly experimental outfit pioneered what would become the world-music genre by darting deftly between rock, folk, blues, Cajun, country, Middle Eastern, good-time ballads & Eastern European styles, with plenty of full-blown psychedelia on the side.