ATLAS ELECTRIC by MOULAY AHMED EL HASSANI

SKU107036
ArtistMOULAY AHMED EL HASSANI
TitleATLAS ELECTRIC
LabelHIVE MIND
Catalog #HMRLP 3
Tag
ReleaseW 48 - 2018
FormatVinyl - UK2LP
 € 29,99 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. Li Nssak Nssah
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/1_li_nssak_nssah.mp3
  2. Yak Ennas Mlklil Darou Labas
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/2_yak_ennas_mlklil_darou_labas.mp3
  3. Lgaro Ya Ould Lhram
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/3_lgaro_ya_ould_lhram.mp3
  4. Fache Ainik Ant
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/4_fache_ainik_ant.mp3
  5. Ana Mazal Kanabghik
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/5_ana_mazal_kanabghik.mp3
  6. Dnya Yakhlik
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/6_dnya_yakhlik.mp3
  7. Ya Li Hjarni
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/7_ya_li_hjarni.mp3
  8. Addabtini Mahantini
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/8_addabtini_mahantini.mp3
  9. Mi Hanna Dada
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/9_mi_hanna_dada.mp3
  10. Lklam Lakhar
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/10_lklam_lakhar.mp3
  11. Ya Lmmima Matabkich Hada Hali
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/11_ya_lmmima_matabkich_hada_hali.mp3
  12. Loukan Fik Lkhir
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/107036_atlas_electric/12_loukan_fik_lkhir.mp3

Description

Hive Mind Records present a 2LP compilation of songs by Moulay Ahmed El Hassani, a master of modern Moroccan music, who updates traditional folk forms with drum machines, autotune and incredible psychedelic guitar.Moulay Ahmed El Hassani is practically unknown outside of his home country of Morocco where he's released over 50 albums on cassette and CD over the past 30 years, however Hive Mind Records seek to remedy that situation with the release of this compilation featuring songs originally released on Ahmed's own label, Sawt el Hassani, between 2006 and 2014. Ahmed writes his own songs, plays all instruments himself, records and self produces at his home studio in Beni Mellal. His unique sound takes influence from a variety of Moroccan folk forms, particularly the Izlan and Ahidous styles of the Amazigh people of the mid-Atlas region. Ahmed has blended these styles with the rai and chaabi that were popular across the country through his youth. The resulting sound is like a twenty-first century folk music for a people caught somewhere between a vision of their own idealised pastoral past and a turbo charged, technologically driven urban future. Ahmed has embraced new musical technologies and his songs are made up of complex, polyrhythmic drum machine patterns, subtle loops, washes of new age synth, heavily autotuned male and female duet vocals, and his signature psychedelic microtonal guitar playing. His songs are sometimes gentle and melancholic, and sometimes more upbeat, but always deeply lyrical and melodic, and all feature lyrics in Amazigh and Arabic that deal with social issues and universal themes of love and loss.

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