Arriving at 9pm there was a rare Rickshaw line formed outside. Inside the soon to be packed room, Oakland's Mark Gergis was spinning the ultimate in obscure world music treats. I couldn't name a single song he played. I'm not even sure I could name the country of origin for many of the songs. There seemed to be at least some offerings from Thailand, India, Cambodia and Syria. Projected over the stage there was an hour long mix of wild 802s Cambodian VHS recordings. [...]
Electrified Western Saharan jam band plays weddings, warps time. Group Doueh plays noisy and exultant music, designed to pitch listeners into throes of bewildered ecstasy. This makes sense -- they're a wedding band. Remember how bewildered and ecstatic everybody was in the first third of The Deer Hunter? Or rather, recall how ecstatic the film making was, with its leisurely voyeurism and its willingness to simply observe all the dancing and drinking in something approaching real time. That filmed observation, almost an hour-long, was...
An exciting mix of pop and traditional music from the sub-Saharan.
13-15 May, 2011 We live in hard times, friends. Not hard like it was back in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s obviously, or even the early 80s of course but you know, bread is pricey these days, so pretty damn hard. The enforced economic cutbacks are far reaching and have inevitably spread to everyone's favourite indie-cred festival, ATP . Now down to just one May festival from the previous years' 2, one will become none in 2012 due to a big dip in ticket sales caused by all manner of possible reasons; a perceived lack of [...]
Esqueçam tudo o que aqui já escrevi sobre festivais. O All Tomorrow's Parties de Inglaterra, curado pelos Animal Collective e realizado neste passado fim de semana no campo de férias Butlins, em Minehead, na sua edição de Primavera (a última, segundo a organização), ultrapassa não só tudo o que já experimentei no passado como toda a imaginação com que previamente viajei para o Somerset
Westerners tend to group Tamikrest into the "desert rock" movement, a vague and cinematically inclined term for music that would sound appropriate set under images of the Saharan desert, complete with tired camels and heat lines. The band hails from Mali, where about two-thirds of land is desert, so the grouping is at least geographically [...]
Oh, folks. Have I got a tale for you. As a matter of fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't have a tale for you. Because words cannot accurately render how incredible last night's screening of The Room was. It was without a doubt the greatest movie-watching experience of my life. Setting aside the beers at Golden State, the beers at Surly Goat, the bottle of wine consumed while waiting in line, or the bottle of Jack Daniels consumed in the movie theater, I haven't laughed that hard in God knows how long. If [...]
(picture via Sublime Frequencies ) Got some miscellaneous tracks for you today. First, Onukpa Shawarpo, by the Bokoor Band. It comes to us from the Afro-Rock, Vol. 1 compiliaiton from Evolver Entertainment. Very bluesy, complete with some sweet harmonica as the main instrument. The Bokoor Band was a large Ghanaian collective with a constantly shifting line-up. It was founded in 1971 by British emigrant John Collins and a Ghanaian friend, Robert Buckley."Later on, in the 80s and 90s, Collins would transform his father's farmhouse into Bokoor Studio and record over 200 local acts, creating an [...]
Whatever else Ryan was doing over the holidays, it sounds like we were listening to the same podcasts. On Guitar Music From The Western Sahara, Group Doueh and company filter trad Saharan frequencies through 60s and 70s rock and funk. The fruits are a hypnotic blend of non-western otherness that scratches that itch for those [...]
I spent a good amount of the holidays catching up on a large stack of albums I'd been meaning to spend some time with. A few things rose to the top right away during these mammoth listening sessions. One album that I instantly took to comes from Group Doueh who "are led by the enigmatic guitar hero Bamaar Salmou, who is known simply as 'Doueh' (pronounced: 'Doo-way')." They hail from the Western Sahara and are most accurately described as "distorted, loud and unhinged with an impressive display of virtuosity and style only known in this [...]
Oh my God, you guys - I almost had my photograph taken with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse tonight. I was literally the very next person to tap Carlton on the shoulder and say, "Can I take a photo with you?" But he said, "Sorry, I have to go do something in the back" just before he and Damon darted out the rear exit of Gallery 1988 on Melrose in Hollywood this evening. I swear to God, there was no one else even remotely close to me as I was set to approach the pair and introduce myself. It was [...]
Group Doueh . Eid for Dakhla
É bonito ver o anfiteatro da Gulbenkian quase cheio e a dançar a músicas pouco frequentes por Lisboa, interpretadas por grupos que poucos terão ouvido previamente, de uma pequena editora norte-americana cujo magnífico trabalho de pesquisa poucos conhecerão. O final da digressão europeia da Sublime Frequencies aconteceu neste fim-de-tarde de domingo, num clima de grande festa, num espaço cuja
Do deserto quente do Sahara e da tradição musical da música africana, o Group Doueh é actualmente um dos colectivos de maior relevo na desert music, juntamente com outros grupos mais conhecidos por cá como Tinariewn. Pegando na música islâmica e no virtuosismo dos seus músicos, a banda imprime um certo psicadelismo quase "Hendrixiano" aos seus temas. A Sublime Frequencies reconheceu-lhes valor e editou há dois anos Guitar Music From The Western Sahara , o disco que pôs definitivamente o Group Doueh nos circuitos internacionais, pé ante pé, sem histerismo ou hype dos media mas recebendo por [...]
Group Doueh, um dos nomes da Sublime Frequencies que vai passar pelo anfiteatro ao ar livre dos jardins da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, no próximo domingo. O outro é o sírio Omar Souleyman. Os concertos começam às 19h, mas a festa começa mais cedo, com música e filmes da SF. (É ou não é uma bela oportunidade para se fazer um pic-nic, pegando na deixa do Tony Carreira?)
The Monks/ Complication Artesians/ Trick Bag Jacques Dutronc/ Les Cactus Group Doueh/ Eid For Dakhla Nahid Akhtar/ Toune Kaha Aa Aa Aa Jorge Ben/ Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) Johnny's Guitar/ Kratae Ros Sereysothea & Seang Vanthy/ Jam 5 Kai Thiet (Wait 5 More Months) [...]
Last Friday brought a few surprises. First was the queue. I knew the gig was sold out, but I wasn't quite expecting the long queue which looked amusingly out of place in this quiet Tufnell Park junction. A passerby may have assumed that this it was some hot young starlets ...
Just to clarify: that'll be the Tufnell Park Dome, not its more illustrious Greenwich cousin. But even this Dome was a bit of a strange choice of venue - I think the last time I visited the Tufnell Park Dome was probably 1997, when I was fresh out of University, and had moved to [...]
did i dance? did i dance? like a fucking fiend i did. it really don't get much better than this. like some bastard chimeric beast composed of ceilidh, rave, jimi hendrix, gospel, desert psyche fucking handclapping toetapping freakout. oof it was hot down there. like the sahara itself. which musta been nice for group doueh being from [...]
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