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El Hal / The Feeling - CD
«El Hal / The Feeling» est le troisième album d’Electric Jalaba et leur première sortie en cinq ans. C’est un travail aux multiples facettes qui trouve le groupe plus serré que jamais, déployant une vaste cache d’influences sur neuf morceaux improvisés et développés dans leur studio du sud de Londres puis habilement produits par Keen.
Certains morceaux rendent hommage aux origines de la musique gnawa, dont le répertoire de chants de louange en arabe contient des restes de dialectes ouest-africains - bambara du Mali, peul et haoussa de la région du Sahel - qui indiquent une migration séculaire. «L'effet induisant la transe de Gnawa est ce qui nous a frappés en premier. C'était viscéral, le cœur arrêtait », poursuit Olly, dont les frères et sœurs - le producteur / joueur clé Henry Keen, le guitariste / multi-instrumentiste Nathaniel Keen et le chanteur / multi-instrumentiste Barnaby Keen - composent Electric Jalaba aux côtés du batteur anglo-italien vénéré Dave De Rose et Simo au chant, krakeb et guimbri.
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Electric Jalaba comprises six accomplished musicians with an empathy that feels telepathic and a groove that immerses. In Arabic, the mother tongue of Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo Lagnawi, a leading practitioner of Gnawa music in Britain, they call this indefinable quality, “El Hal” – “The feeling”. “It’s the feeling that comes when we’re playing and totally forgetting where we are,” says producer and bassist Olly Keen. “The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove.”
El Hal is the new third album from Electric Jalaba and their first release in five years. It’s a multi-faceted work that finds the band tighter than ever, deploying a vast cache of influences across nine tracks improvised and developed in their south London studio then deftly produced by Keen. Some tracks pay homage to the origins of Gnawa music, whose repertoire of Arabic-language praise songs contains remnants of West African dialects – Bambara from Mali, Fulani and Hausa from the Sahel region – that point to a centuries-old migration.
Tracklist :
A1. TORA TORA
A2. CUBAILI BA
A3. AGIA HAUSA
A4. DAIMLA
A5. HINDEWU
B1. FULAN
B2. SHABAKRU
B3. BRIANDO
B4. LAGMAMI
Label : Strut Records