Nayda

Bab L' Bluz

SKU: LPRW229

Barcode: 0884108008744

19.00 £19.00
  • Genre: Blues
  • Label: Real World
  • Released Date: 24th July 2020
  • Buying Format:
    1LP Coloured Vinyl

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Moroccan-French power quartet, Bab L’Bluz, reclaim the blues for North Africa.

Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, Bab L’Bluz are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija.

“More than anything we’re a rock band,” declares frontwoman Yousra, who sings, ululates and fires riffs from her goatskin-covered awicha [small guembri] like some Berber warrior goddess.

“We use the awicha as a guitar and the guembri as a bass, both at different tunings. We channel our huge range of influences into music that crosses borders and travels through time.”

Think old-school Gnawa meets funk. Moroccan chaabi meets trance. The sung poetry of Mauritania meets the deep spiritual cry of the blues. Imagine ninja-style flute, propulsive drums and percussion including spiralling metal qraqeb castanets. Wrap it all up in the turned-on-tuned-in psych rock grooves of such countercultural heroes as Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Nass El Ghiwane, Morocco’s very own Rolling Stones.

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Gwana Beat
Ila Mata
El Gamra
Glibi
Oudelali
Waydelel
Africa Manayo
Yemma
El Watane
Bab L’ Bluz

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