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Al Hadaoui 04:03 | | 2. Albaki 07:06 | | 3. Moulate Salef 05:02 | | 4. Taali 04:39 | | 5. Aflana 04:17 | | 6. Chama'a 05:52 | | 7. Kaddaba 04:57 | | | | | | R E L E A S E N O T E S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | | ------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | | | | | | Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah's album came to us as quite a | | mystery. Our friends from Radio Martiko got access to the studio | | archive of the Boussiphone label and a reel labeled "Faradjallah" was | | among the items they had found there. After listening to the | | selection of reels they borrowed, Radio Martiko felt it was not a fit | | for their label and helped us licensing it from Mr. Boussiphone | | instead. | | | | We knew nothing about the band. We just had the reel with the music | | but very little information. What we knew was that the music was | | incredible and very unique. Gnawa sounds were combined with funky | | electronic guitars, very dense layers of percussions and female | | backing vocals more reminiscent of musical styles further south than | | Morocco. | | | | We started asking around whether anyone knew the band with no | | immediate success until we asked Tony Day, a musician from Morocco | | who helped us during our search for Fadoul's family. His sharp memory | | came through once again, remembering all the names of the Attarazat | | Addahabia band members and even how to contact the bands singer and | | leader Abdelakabir Faradjallah. After visiting him at his home in | | Casablanca with our Moroccan colleague Sabrina multiple times, he | | shared his personal story. | | | | His father arrived in Casablanca from Aqqa at the age of six and his | | mother came from Essaouira. Abdelakabir was born in the neighbourhood | | of Benjdia in 1942. Abdelakabir Faradjallah studied fine arts in | | Casablanca, graduating in 1962. He also played soccer in the second | | team of "Jeunesse Societe One". His brother-in-law Ibrahim Sadr | | worked for one of the biggest football teams of the time in Morocco | | called "Moroco Sportive Union", which allowed him to travel to France | | occasionally. While Ibrahim was never part of the band he brought | | along a few instruments from trips. Yet the majority of the | | instruments they could not afford to buy were build by Faradjallah | | and Abderrazak, Faradjallah's brother who passed away early. For | | instance they had built a Spanish guitar and a drum made of wood | | barrel and sheepskin by themselves. | | | | During the 1950s Faradjallah was booked as a singer for surprise | | parties with friends. He started to write his first songs including | | "L'gnawi" in 1967 and wanted to make people discover Gnawa culture, | | or maybe rather his take on the culture to be more exact. | | | | Faradjallah recalls his first interaction with the genre in the | | streets of the Dern neighbourhood, where he used to go to elementary | | school. Gnawa is one of the essential musical genres of Morocco. It | | combines ritual poetry with traditional dances and music linked with | | a spiritual foundation. Musically a lot of influences originated from | | West Africa as well as Sudan. | | | | Gnawa is usually played by a selection of specific instruments such | | as the qaraqab (large iron castanets centrally associated with the | | music), the hajhouj (a three string lute), guembri loudaa (a three | | stringed bass instrument) and the tbel (large drums). People would | | put shells on their clothes and instruments and use incense at their | | parties. "Sidi darbo lalla - lala derbo khadem..." came from Gnawa | | verses Faradjallah used to sing when he was 14. The lyrics tackle a | | global (im)balance of power and the question of social status in this | | course. | | | | The band Attarazat Addahabia was formed in 1968. The original line-up | | included 14 members, all from the same family. They played their | | first small concerts here and there starting in 1969. Later in 1973 | | they performed bigger shows, for instance at the Municipal Theatre | | followed by the "Al Massira Show" at Velodrome Stadium in downtown | | Casablanca. Their first album "Al Hadaoui" (the one you are listening | | to) was recorded at Boussiphone studios in 1972 and was never | | released before. Nobody seems to remember the exact reason why | | Boussiphone ended up deciding not to put the album out. The album's | | title track also served as the basis for Fadoul's "Maktoub Lah", who | | frequented the same circles as the band for some time. | | | | Their shows sometimes could go as long as 12 hours, starting at 5pm | | in the afternoon, with an occasional break here and there. In the | | 1980s the band took a brief break. Faradjallah recalled the reason | | for that break like this: "Zaki, the bands drummer, had fallen in | | love with a young girl from Mohammedia. Soon after, he fell very ill. | | The group members were convinced that the girl had given him 's'hor' | | (a kind of local Moroccan version of "black magic"). For four years | | the whole group stopped playing. It was unthinkable to find another | | drummer to replace Zaki, even temporarily." So they waited four years | | for Zaki to "get back on his feet" before going back on stage. | | | | Apart from very few gigs here and there Faradjallah stopped playing | | music in the mid 1990s. Some members from the younger generations | | formed a new band and still play frequently to this day. Faradjallah | | runs a television repair shop coupled offerings beverages and snacks | | in the Belevedere/Ains Sbaa district of Casablanca. While Faradjallah | | was primarily a musician, he would work for the local cinema and | | paint their posters for new movies by hand and he designed all | | artworks and cover posters of the band. And this eventually led to | | him participating actively in our first exhibition dealing with | | Habibi Funk's work in Dubai 2018. He helped us by creating | | calligraphic complementations on large photo prints for that show. | | | | | | YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! | | | | | | . . | | |\/\/| | | |____| | |------------------------------=---=-======-=---=-------------------------| |===/\===============================SOUNDz==========================/\===| '--/__\--------------------------=-2013-2019-=----------------------/__\--'