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 [...]

guitar music from the western sahara group doueh - cheyla ya haiuune
Hello there, did you know that Sublime Frequencies, most passionate and caring explorers of the global underground have a tour going across the UK and Europe , with Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh playing live? It is happening in Brighton at St. George's Church on Wednesday, we hear tickets are ...
Entre as datas conjuntas que o Group Doueh e Omar Souleyman vão fazer na Europa, há uma para Lisboa, a realizar na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, com mão da Filho Único: 21 de Junho.Group Doueh é um dos nomes mais relevantes (e em actividade, diga-se de passagem) do catálogo Sublime Frequencies, o selo norte-americano que desde há meia-dúzia de anos tem vindo a editar gravações mais ou menos
The second most exciting piece of reissue news this week is that Group Doueh: Guitar Music From The Western Sahara has finally made it on to CD. Originally released on...
It does the heart good to think that somewhere there is always a true guitar original you have yet to hear. That you'll always be able to hear someone doing something that sounds entirely new and unique. One such original is a man called Doueh, and his group is the prosaically named Group Doueh. He's from the disputed territories of Western Sahara and he makes a music that is as hard to pin down as his country. The predominate local musical form is called Sahwawi, and apparently there's some of that in his playing. [...]

I have written a lot this year. Way more than anyone of my caliber should ever be allowed to write. And it has been almost unanimously about music. God knows what motivates me to do so on my own unpaid (in both financial and attention terms) accord, but I can only assume that it's whatever the same odd driving force is that seems to be encouraging the rest of this outspoken faceless society we refer to as the blogosphere. Maybe it's a reaction to being bombarded by so much curious and easily accessible media, an [...]

Low - Breaker (Sub Pop 2007) Low – Drums and Guns / Sub Pop From what I can tell (using my very amateur art interpretation skills), Bridget Riversmith's full painting, which is cropped on the inside cover of Low's latest album, Drums and Guns , features a ring of streaming birds entering the ears of a sheep-like creature with a wolf's face. Painted with chalky grey gouache, it's austere in its minimalism; it's deceptively simple thanks to fine craftsmanship and shrouded with curiosity leaving [...]