Hassānīya Music From The Western Sahara And Mauritania, by Group Doueh, Group Marwani, Sadoum Group, Sadoum Ouled Aida

Hassānīya Music From The Western Sahara And Mauritania

by Group Doueh, Group Marwani, Sadoum Group, Sadoum Ouled Aida

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Geff Cassuto this is worth the purchase even just for track 3! Life altering sounds.

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1.	Group Marwani – Bismi Lahi Lahi Namdah 04:48	buy track
2.	Group Doueh – Beyt Kar Labyad 02:10	buy track
3.	Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid – Beyt Kar Akhal 06:37	buy track
4.	Group Doueh – Madam Jat Faabuni 04:32	buy track
5.	Sadoum Ouled Aida – Kar Akhal 02:37	buy track
6.	Group Marwani – Wanyey Allah Idumu 04:50	buy track
7.	Group Doueh – Beyt Alayan 06:16	buy track
8.	HM – Audio Apothecary 02:42	buy track
9.	Sadoum Group – Hanun 02:55	buy track

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In 2006, Hisham Mayet returned to West Africa to continue his search for an unknown musician he had heard six months earlier on the radio in a Morocco hotel room. Knowing only that it was Sahrawi music — music of the south — he headed down through the vast and remote desert landscape of the Western Sahara and Mauritania in hopes of finding someone who could identify these revelatory recordings.
That artist was Group Doueh. But he also found much, much more as he wandered from Laâyoune, Western Sahara, to Mauritania’s capital city of Nouakchott: From intimate, sinuous home recordings by Group Marwani, to a sublimely devastating track by the enigmatic Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid, to the inimitable tidinit artistry of Sadoum Ouled Aida, the performers on this album exemplify the haunting and intoxicating qualities of Sahrawi music.

Featuring Mayet’s first recordings of the electrifying Group Doueh, as well as dizzying field recordings from Nouakchott’s Marché Capitale — where relentless traffic noise swirls together with fragments of melody from countless cassette vendors’ PA speakers— Hassānīya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania is the evocative soundtrack to a chimerical journey that is also documented visually in Sublime Frequencies’ breathtaking film Palace of the Winds. It not only traces Mayet’s own passage through these barren and beautiful lands, but also charts the evolution of Sahrawi music from sung poetry accompanied by traditional acoustic instruments to electrifying modern grooves drenched in reverb and phase effects.

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released August 3, 2022

A1 Group Marwani– Bismi Lahi Lahi Namdah
Drum [Tbal] – Lhiba Habadia
Guitar – Laaroussi Mayssara
Vocals – Damine Saad Bouh
A2 Group Doueh– Beyt Kar Labyad
Drum [Tbal] – Halima Jakani
Lute [Tidinit] – Doueh
Synthesizer – Jamal Baamar
Vocals – Bashri Touballi*
Written-By – Khaymat-Abdul Azziz
A3 Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid– Beyt Kar Akhal
Harp [Ardin], Drum [Tbal] – Unknown Artist
Lute [Tidinit], Vocals – Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid
A4 Group Doueh– Madam Jat Faabuni
Drum [Tbal], Vocals – Halima Jakani
Guitar – Doueh

B1 Sadoum Ouled Aida– Kar Akhal
Lute [Tidinit], Vocals – Sadoum*
B2 Group Marwani– Wanyey Allah Idumu
Drum [Tbal] – Lhiba Habadia
Guitar – Laaroussi Mayssara
Vocals – Damine Saad Bouh
B3 Group Doueh– Beyt Alayan
Drum [Tbal] – Jamal Baamar
Guitar – Doueh
Vocals – Bashri Touballi*
B4 HM*– Audio Apothecary
B5 Sadoum Group– Hanun
Drum [Tbal] – Mohamed Ouled Essayed
Guitar – Haddadi Ouled Nanna
Harp [Ardin], Vocals – Jamilla Bint Boubajidan, Moumma Bint Amartichitt
Lute [Tidinit] – Sadoum Ouled Aida

Art Direction – Hisham Mayet
Layout, Design – Kate Widdows
Liner Notes – Hisham Mayet
Mastered By – Mark Gergis
Photography By – Hisham Mayet
Recorded By, Edited By, Compiled By – Hisham Mayet

These recordings were made on location in Western Sahara and Mauritania, January 2006, except for track B3, which was recorded in February 2007.

'Audio Apothecary' : street sounds of Marché Capitale, Nouakchott.

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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