I see Group Doueh,
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Track:Eid Al Arsh
the rawest, roughest and most primal of the electric guitar bands of the western Sahara, have a new album coming out. Unfortunately, given my present state of utter poverty, where I can only afford one meal a day and am far from sure I have enough petrol in my car to get me to work, let alone home, tomorrow (hey, it would be nice to be commissioned to do some work for pay, but we're in a recession) it's likely to be next year before i can afford to buy it.
In which case, this African Tuesday I shall return to their first album, possibly one of the most lo-fi live recordings of the modern era. Mind you, when you're cutting music in the wild lands between Morocco and Mauretania, studio perfection is not your goal.
Salmou "Doueh" Bamaar first heard the music of Jimi Hendrix on short-wave radio over thirty years ago, and decided he wanted to play like him. His instrument is the electric tidinit - similar to a guitar, but with its own resonances and dissonances. At first, the sounds can be disorienting, as their reference points are not traditionally western, but give it a listen
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Uno, Doueh, Three..never get enough of these noisemakers.
Some good guitar playing on this. The vocals could be turned down a tad, though.
We go to the Orient to be disoriented, and this Middle East-sounding tuneage is from Western Sahara, which is further west than Europe. I sounds like "Doueh" wasn't overly Hendrixized and still sounds authentic. Great trance music.