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I know I’m a bit late, but I designed some LPS turkeys to celebrate. I hope everyone had a good day! 🦃💕
#littlest pet shop#lps#littlest pet shop design#lps design#lps custom#lps art#littlest pet shop art#turkey#thanksgiving#lps turkey
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Thursday 2/23/23 8pm ET: Feature LP: Wild Turkey - Turkey (1972)
BIography by AllMusic
Bass-player Glenn Cornick (b. 23 April 1947, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England), then known as Glenn Barnard, began his musical career as a member of the mid-60s outfit, Joey And The Jailbreakers. He also worked with a number of similarly underachieving outfits, such as the Vikings, Formula One, the Hobos and the Executives. Eventually he graduated into Blackpool’s John…
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The album was intended as an experiment using musical styles Brubeck discovered abroad while on a United States Department of State sponsored tour of Eurasia, such as when he observed in Turkey a group of street musicians performing a traditional Turkish folk song that was played in 9/8 time, a rare meter for Western music. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson took a chance to underwrite and release Time Out. It received negative reviews by critics upon its release, but despite this, it became one of the best-known and biggest-selling jazz albums, charting highly on the popular albums chart when 50,000 units sold for a jazz album was impressive. It consequently produced a Top 40 hit single in "Take Five", composed by Paul Desmond, and the one track not written by Dave Brubeck. The cover art is just as important as the LP itself featuring specific artwork created by S. Neil Fujita best known for his covers for CBS Records, which introduced abstract art to jazz LP packaging.
First published on December 14, 1959.
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn (1959)
Traditional / Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins
from: "Country Blues" (LP)
Country Blues | Acoustic Blues | Traditional | Texas Blues
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Personnel:
Lightnin' Hopkins: Vocals / Guitar
Produced by Mack McCormick
Recorded:
in Houston, Texas USA
on February 16 & 26, 1959
Album Released:
1959
Tradition Records
CD Reissue:
1996
Tradition Records
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U.S. Thanksgiving Day, 2023
#Lightnin' Hopkins#Blues#Country Blues#Acoustic Blues#Thanksgiving Day#Thanksgiving#Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn#Tradition Records#1950's
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211: Erkin Koray // Arap Saçı
Arap Saçı
Erkin Koray
2021, Pharaway Sounds
Pharaway Sounds’ Arap Saçı (Arab Hair) collects 24 Erkin Koray tracks originally issued as singles between 1968 and 1976. Koray is best known in the West for his groundbreaking fusion of Anatolian/Arabic folk and classical with crunching psychedelic rock on his 1974 debut LP Elektronik Türküler. However, as Angela Sawyer’s tart liner notes observe, Turkey was predominantly a singles market at the time, and back home Koray did most of his damage on 7”. The limitations of the format, and the preferences of Koray’s record company, preclude the kind of long-form acid voyages he undertook on Elektronik Türküler, but he's able to generate plenty of smoke on these “pop” singles.
Highlights abound. Arap Saçı kicks off with 1973’s “Mesafaler” (“Distances”), a scorching psych banger complete with cowbell that only stops rocking to periodically gawp and stare fixedly into space for 20 or 30 seconds at a time before shaking itself awake to get back to business. (Is there footage of a Turkish TV performance featuring liquid light art? You bet your hairy ass there is.)
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The waltzing, organ and hand drum-led “Komşu Kızı” (“Girl Nextdoor”) is a classic melancholy Middle Eastern ballad that hides a wild, surprising drop two-thirds of the way through; Koray freaks “Aşka İnanmıyorum” (“I Do Not Believe in Love”) with his insinuating croon and serpentine guitar licks; “Istemem” (“I Do Not Want”) mixes a light-stepping folk beat with some stinging solos that aren’t too far off what Uli Jon Roth would get up to in Germany with Scorpions a few years later. There really isn’t a bum track to be found.
This new compilation covers much of the same ground as the ‘70s Erkin Koray (AKA Mesafaler) and Erkin Koray 2 (AKA Şaşkın) singles compilations, and Pharaway Sounds opts to follow their track sequencing as closely as possible—a good choice, as they had a great flow, though a bit frustrating for those hoping to track Koray’s musical development chronologically. Regardless, we know that Koray was exposed to Western music as a young age, learning Occidental classical music on the piano as a child and discovering rock ‘n’ roll as a teen. According to the liners, Koray was performing songs by Elvis, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis in the late ‘50s, and by the late ‘60s, when he began to emerge as a recording artist, he’d clearly imbibed industrial quantities of Hendrix, Cream, and the other usual psychonauts.
In a previous review, I briefly contrasted Koray with Egypt’s Omar Khorshid, a fellow guitar god and contemporary pioneer in electrified Arabic music. Khorshid had some familiarity with Western pop music, but he was working with the top stars in Arab folk and classical, using electric instruments to push traditional Eastern music forward rather than to fuse it with rock. Koray on the other hand was a long-haired freak who claims to have fought in the streets with a knife and joined Anglo-American-inspired combos with names like Mustard (Hardal) and Sweat (Ter). By the late ‘60s rock had become popular in Turkey, as had Arabesk music, which Sawyer describes as “a purposely uncouth… appropriation of Arabic pop and folk, popular with rural or marginalized folks who were suddenly encountering pockets of urbanized Europe in their backyard.” Koray intuitively crossbred the invasive genre (rock) with the reactionary one (Arabesk) and found himself one of the fathers of a powerful new mongrel breed of psych music.
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By reissuing both Elektronik Türküler and these essential singles, Pharaway Sounds has done a real service to psych and non-Western rock aficionados. Koray makes a great gateway to the other masters of ‘70s Anatolian folk-rock, including Selda, Moğollar, and Barış Manço, a loose affiliation of artists that has been one of my most prized discoveries of recent years.
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#erkin koray#turkish music#turkish rock#turkish psych#anatolian rock#anatolian psych#anatolian music#psych rock#heavy psych#psychedelia#'70s music#'60s music#pharaway sounds#music review#vinyl record#arab hair
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OH MY GODDD THE ORIGINAL LPS ARE COMING BACKKK
hope they use the original material because the newer (gen 5-6?) ones felt like silicone and icky to me and I hope theyll be afforable where I live or Ill cry
Im extra excited for the goat molds >:0 and persian wolf cattt I loved their molds so much I was so mad when I learned it wasnt a real cat breed or species or anything
speaking of lps heres a fun fact, in turkey, its not their brand name but theyre commonly called miniş here (a cutified way to say mini, to accentuate just how small they are) and if my memory is not failing me, in the ads as well.
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"Cold Turkey Press / Klacto presents : A Cold Turkey Press special"
(LP. Rotterdam '72. 1972) [US]
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#compilation#1972#poetry#spoken word#Ray Bremser#Diane Diprima#Ted Berrigan#Carol Berge#Ed Sanders#charles bukowski#John Wieners#Jim Silver#john giorno#allen ginsberg#beat#usa#records#Youtube
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Best of 2022
Here it is: my yearly summation of the small labels working through rising costs and punishing manufacturing delays, the artists making music unafraid of chance, and the freaks supporting all of it in spite of the daily consequences of a ruling class increasingly detached from reality. Lots more that deserve accolades from more prestigious publications, and I'm sure they'll get 'em, but these are records that were inseparable from certain points of my year, including now. Yeah, they were all kinda my favorite at one point, and could be again tomorrow, but Kilynn Lunsford is #1 for a reason. Glad to be back at shows, however sparingly, experiencing all the awkward camaraderie and room-silencing/room-flattening performances that come with them. It all feels more necessary than ever. Up and up in a world of lava. Happy New Year, everyone.
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Kilynn Lunsford, Custodians of Human Succession (ever/never)
Joe Colley, Deformation of Tone (Total Black)
Kitchen's Floor, None of That (Petty Bunco)
Thomas Bush, Preludes (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox)
Hissing, Hypervirulence Architecture (Profound Lore)
Tim Goss, Afterfly (Penultimate Press)
Carla dal Forno, Come Around (Kallista)
Rose Mercie, ¿Kieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch/Jelodanti)
Incipientium, Belastning (Förlag För Fri Musik)
Siobhan, Body Double (Nostilevo)
7"/12"/Cassette/CD
The Body & OAA, Enemy of Love CS (Thrill Jockey)
Brain Tourniquet, s/t 7" (Iron Lung)
CIA Debutante, "The Punch" b/w "The Garden" 7" (Digital Regress)
Cube, Proof of Bells CD (H&S Ranch)
Darksmith, Imposter CD (Throne Heap)
Gaoled, Bestial Hardcore 7" flexi (Iron Lung)
Greymouth, Twilight Furl 7" (Kashual Plastik)
Horrendous 3D, s/t 7" (Black Water)
Incipientium, Inhuman CS (Kashual Plastik)
Primitive Man, Insurmountable 12" (Closed Casket Activities)
RRR Band, s/t CS (Petty Bunco)
Sprite, Epic Sundry CS (Tropical Cancer Rort)
Stomachache, Hiss Noise Whir CD (Lagniappe Exposure)
R.I.P. Young Slo-Be
Rap
42 Dugg & EST Gee, “Thump Shit”
BandGang Lonnie Bands, Scorpion Eyes (Anti Media/TF Entertainment)
Denzel Curry feat. Key Glock, “Walkin (Remix)”
Earl Sweatshirt, SICK! (Tan Cressida)
Lil Durk & Gucci Mane, “Rumors”
Maz G x GuttaFoe, “Win Some, Lose Some” - what is going on in Milwaukee
Starlito & Troy Money, Cheap Phones & Turkey Bags (Grind Hard)
Billy Woods, Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)
Young Slo-Be, Southeast (KoldGreedy / Thizzler on the Roof)
Z Money, Back 2 the Blender (self-released) - thx @raygarraty
Pictured: Angels of Mons
Live shows
The Body at 529, Atlanta, GA (May 17)
Primitive Man, Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void & Elizabeth Color Wheel at The EARL, Atlanta, GA (May 20)
Brain Tourniquet, Excavate & Thirdface at DRKMTTR, Nashville, TN (July 16)
Reeking Aura at the Brickyard, Knoxville, TN (November 11)
Bitchin Bajas, Maspeth & Angels of Mons at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN (December 11)
Five songs that made my daughter dance every time they hit the deck
Bitchin Bajas, "Quakenbrück" from Bajascillators
Can, "Halleluhwah" from Tago Mago
Rose Mercie, "Cats and Dogs" from ¿Kieres Agua?
Träden, "När lingonen mognar (Lingonberries Forever)" from Träden
YL Hooi, "W/O Love" from Untitled
#Kilynn Lunsford#ever/never records#Joe Colley#Kitchen's Floor#Petty Bunco#Thomas Bush#Hissing#Tim Goss#Carla dal Forno#Rose Mercie#Incipientium#Siobhan#Brain Tourniquet#Iron Lung#Greymouth#Darksmith#Horrendous 3D#Primitive Man#Gaoled#CIA Debutante#Starlito#Young Slo-Be#Z Money#Earl Sweatshirt#Billy Woods#Best of 2022
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3/6/24.
Goblin Daycare are based in Istanbul, Turkey. They peddle a type of punk that sounds like Devo played through sludge speakers. This is abrasive, short and quite melodic. It also reminds me of the Australian punk sounds of bands like Ausmuteants.
The band is currently preparing a full length for German label Dedstrange. Frankly, I would have thought this would have fit nicely on ETT (Erste Theke Tontraeger - who released The Coneheads). In fact, as I was listening to that label's newest LP - Busted Head Racket - I noticed that they mentioned the label "egg" or "weird" punk. Like them, I just like to think of this sound as punk. And while I have you, go back and listen to Rita Mosss (RITA MOΣΣΣ).
Back to Goblin Daycare. This is their debut EP released in the U.S. by Godless America Tapes.
#Goblin Daycare#Instanbul#Turkey#Devo#Ausmuteants#Dedstrange#The Coneheads#Busted Head Racket#Godless America Records#Rita Mosss
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I've always loved lps but there are none in my country 😭😭😭 where can I buy lps like the ones you post?? 🧎🧎
depending on what country you’re in, the littlest pet shop stop ships to a handful of countries (u.s, guam, puerto rico, chile, canada, uae, turkey, mexico, peru, colombia, france, germany, australia, ireland, new zealand, denmark, & finland) :o) but of course the shipping costs will be quite high since they are based in washington (us). im unsure of where else you can buy. if anybody knows of any other stores you can buy from, feel free to rb or comment :o)
#sheesh how many times will i mention the littlest pet shop stop#they’re great i love shopping with them teehee#[ asks ]
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Forever Friends
By Talks
Brittany appears back in Santana's life after the death of her parents. Follow the pair became Brittana once again. * Tears * Love * Laughs * Drama * Angst *
Rated: Fiction M
Genre: Romance/Angst
Characters: [Santana L., Brittany P.] Quinn F., Mercedes J.
Status: complete
Chapters: 65
Words: 65,535
Published: Feb 23, 2013
Updated: Mar 21, 2014
Hollywood Living
By Talks
Brittany and Santana juggle raising their four kids while pursuing their active Hollywood careers. Sequel to Forever Friends but can stand alone.
Rated: Fiction M
Genre: Romance/Angst
Characters: [Santana L., Brittany P.] Quinn F., Mercedes J.
Status: complete
Chapters: 73
Words: 65,535
Published: Aug 17, 2013
Updated: Feb 26, 2015
Hollywood Living: Battle of the Birds
By Talks
Thanksgiving themed one shot from the Hollywood Living verse where Santana and Brittany take on their friends in a friendly competition of who can make the best turkey for Thanksgiving. * Brittana * Love * Humor * Friendship *
Rating: M
Genre: Friendship, Humor
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L. , Quinn F.
Status: Complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 4,758
Published: Nov 28, 2014
Hollywood Living: The Easter Egg Hunt
by Talks
Celebrate Easter Sunday with the Lopez Pierce family. - A Easter one shot chapter that is from the Hollywood Living verse- so the kids are their ages in the story before the time jumps at the end, meaning Noah is 16, Ashton is 10, Carter is 8, and Mackenzie is 4.
Rating: M
Genre: Family, Humor
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: Complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 3,905
Published: Apr 6, 2015
Hollywood Living: A Very Lima Christmas Carole
by Talks
AU Christmas where the LP family travels to Lima for the holidays.
Rating: M
Genre: Drama, Humor
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: Incomplete
Chapters: 2
Words: 4,735
Published: Dec 21, 2016
Hollywood Living: One Sweet Day ( The Alternate Ending )
by Talks
“This one shot takes place after chapter 68 of Hollywood Living when Brittany had her big health scare in London.”
Rating: M
Genre: Angst, Character Death
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L., Mercedes J., Quinn F., Rachel B.
Status: Complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 11,654
Published: Sep 25, 2014
My Wife and Kids
by Talks
Brittany and Santana juggle raising three teenagers while still handling their own personal Hollywood Careers. *Trilogy to Forever Friends and Hollywood Living" * Brittana * Smut * Romance * Humor *
Rating: M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: Completed
Chapters: 97
Words: 576,377
Published: Aug 2, 2014
Updated: Apr 4, 2019
This Christmas
by Talks
HL/MWAK AU Set 10 years in the future from MWAK, The four Lopez-Pierce family is finally all together after 5 years of spending Christmas spread around the country. As the family catches up around the holiday, secrets and truths are revealed.
Rating: M
Genre: Drama, Family
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: incomplete
Chapters: 4
Words: 12,039
Published: Dec 11, 2015
Updated: Aug 13, 2017
Summer Madness
by Talks
My Wife and Kids companion piece - Brittany and Santana spend the summer in New York reconnecting with one another without the distractions of work, friends, or their kids. Cooking lessons and wine tastings, beach days and thunderstorm movie dates bring the best friends and wives back together while strengthening their marriage
Rating: M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: incomplete
Chapters: 2
Words: 5,440
Published: Jul 31, 2017
Updated: Aug 15, 2017
Stir Crazy
by Talks
The Lopez-Pierce family from Hollywood Living and My Wife and Kids are sticking out the quarantine together.
Rating: M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Characters: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: incomplete
Chapters: 14
Words: 45,934
Published: Apr 7, 2020
Updated: Mar 18, 2021
#Forever Friends#Forever Friends trilogy#Forever Friends verse#By Talks#Talks#Hollywood Living#Hollywood Living: Battle of the Birds#Hollywood Living: The Easter Egg Hunt#Hollywood Living: A Very Lima Christmas Carole#My Wife and Kids#Hollywood Living: One Sweet Day ( The Alternate Ending )#This Christmas#Summer Madness#Stir Crazy#poster by ohvalerievalerie-blog#all back up fanfics from Deleted Brittana Fanfic Google Drive by BrittanaFanficHelp#Brittana#brittana fanfics#santana lopez#brittany s pierce#brittany s. pierce#fanfiction#brittana fanfic#fanfic
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Konstrukt feat. William Parker - Live at Nazım Hikmet Kültür Merkezi - 2014 concert (and 2015 LP) now available on Bandcamp
Recorded in Istanbul, Turkey (September 12th, 2014) By Çagan Tunalı
at Nazım Hikmet Kültür Merkezi, Kadıköy.
Cover artwork by Canedicoda.
Double Bass, Percussion – Özün Usta
Double Bass, Reeds [Gralla] – William Parker
Drums – Korhan Argüden
Electric Guitar, Synthesizer [Moog], Flute, Zurna, Percussion – Umut Çağlar
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Korhan Futacı
℗ & © Konstrukt Music 2015
| released originally as 2xLP through Holidays Records in 2015
| holidaysrecords.it
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De Algemene Verwarring #84 - 9 January 2023
The eighty-fourth episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday January, 2023, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:
https://www.mixcloud.com/MedialabKortrijk/de-algemene-verwarring-84-9-januari-2023/
Pictured below is Ekin Fil, real name Ekin Üzeltüzenci, from Istanbul, Turkey. Usually I write a few lines about the pictured artist, but this time I would like to limit myself to promoting her as one of our favorite experimental artists, and apologizing for always comparing her to Grouper. Ekin Fil has developed a style of her own, produces a load of music and every album I buy of hers is just simply great. I played a track from her new album Dora Agora, released by the Helen Scarsdale Agency, on this show and I hope you enjoy that track. Other music comes from Gee Tee, The Nomads, Religious Overdöse, Image Of Life, Abwärts, Fleur, Plus Instruments, Théorème, Luster, The Haxan Cloak, Grant Hart, and more! And below the photo you can find the playlist for this show. Enjoy!
Playlist:
Gee Tee Vee: Buddy Holly Lives In My Basement (7” Halloween 21” on Goodbye Boozy Records, 2022)
Gee Tee: Dudes In The Valley (7” “Atomic” on Goodbye Boozy Records, repress from 2022, originally released in 2020)
The Nomads: I’m Not Like Everybody Else (LP “Temptation Pays Double” on Closer Records, 1984)
Religious Overdöse: 25 Minutes (LP “Strung Out On Heavens High 1980-1982” on Optic Nerve Recordings, 2022)
Abwärts: Beim Ersten Mal Tut's Immer Weh (12” “Beirut, Holiday Inn” on Mercury Records, 1982)
Fleur: Allez Allez (7” “Besoin de personne/Allez Allez!!!” on Bickerton Records, 2022)
Théorème: Les Artisans (LP “Les Artisans” on Maple Death Records, 2021)
Plus Instruments: Freundschaft (LP “Februari-April ’91” on Domani Sounds, reissue, 2022, originally released in 1981 on Kremlin Records)
Grant Hart: All Of My Senses (CD “Intolerance” on SST Records, 1989)
The Danse Society: Danse/Move (12” “Seduction” on Society Records, 1982)
Image of Life: The World Is Ended (LP “Attended By Silence” on Hertz-Schrittmacher, 2019)
Luster: Espace, éther (LP “Luster” on Morc Records, 2022)
The Strange Girls: Thug (LP “It’s Ok To Be Happy” on Fordamning Arkiv, 2022)
Ekin Fil: Farba (LP “Dora Agora” on Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2022)
GHQ: Pyramid Merchandise Pt. 2 (LP “Crystal Healing” on Three Lobed Recordings, 2007)
The Haxan Cloak: The Drop (LP “Excavation” on Tri Angle Records, 2013)
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59: Nass El Ghiwane // Nass El Ghiwane
Nass El Ghiwane
Nass El Ghiwane
1976, Plein Soleil
The job of a label press release is to pique interest in a record, and when you’re in the ~*world music*~ reissue business that usually means trying to find a parallel between your artist and a familiar touchstone, angling for the off chance an openminded shopper will take a shot and throw your record into the day’s stack. This is the ship that launched a thousand “the [western artist] of [non-western country]” blurbs (“The Hendrix of Turkey!” “The Joni Mitchell of Zambia!” “The Mort Garson of Brunei!” etc.). It worked on me when a somewhat younger, much callower version of myself snagged Nass El Ghiwane (1976) from a shop that’d taped an excerpt of the press release to the sleeve. Here it is in full:
“Formed in 1971, Nass El Ghiwane's five members first performed in the avant-garde of Morocco's underground theater scene. Following their debut performance as a band in Rabat at Tayeb Seddiki's Mohammed V Theatre, their songs became the 1970s anthems of Moroccan youth -- nationalist, rebellious, experimental, and bygone all at once. They are Morocco's most enduring musical legacy. They modernized the way music was transmitted to the disenchanted and rebellious youth of their country. Their concerts would turn into riots as their music and lyrics incited deep affection from their virulent fan base. Their music echoes medieval Moroccan oral traditions; coming from the Gnawa trance music of their ancestors, they sang tales of Sufi mystics and wrote lyrics that criticized the conservative monarchy of Mohammed V. They were the first to introduce the banjo, guembri, and colloquial Moroccan Arabic in their version of the shaabi genre. Nass El Ghiwane were a huge influence on Algeria's modern Raï movement, as Cheb Khaled started his career covering Nass El Ghiwane's songs. This is exemplary trance music and the foundation of the modern era in Moroccan music. Martin Scorsese has called them "‘The Rolling Stones of Morocco.’" It could be argued that Scorsese's claim would be more accurate if the Stones were fronted by Bob Dylan. This is the first ever vinyl reissue of their third album from 1976, one of the most desired LPs in their legendary discography. Fully remastered sound.”
It's a near platonic ideal of its kind—rife with dope-sounding references (Gnawa trance music! Sufi mystics! Concerts breaking out into riots!), and intriguing bold-type names.* I might have had no idea who Cheb Khaled was, but the wording insinuated I should and would like to, and the references to the Stones and Dylan suggested I was holding some kind of wicked fusion of Arabic folk music and heavy rock. Which anyone who knows anything about Gnawa trance music, or shaabi, or Raï, probably could’ve told me it wasn’t, but none of those people were in Sonic Boom Records at that time, so they didn’t, and I ended up with a record I really didn’t know what to make of for quite a while.
To paraphrase writer Ralph Wiley’s rejoinder to Saul Bellow’s (allegedly) dismissive question, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?”, the Rolling Stones are the Rolling Stones of Morocco, and Dylan is the Dylan of Morocco. Nass El Ghiwane are similar to these acts in the sense that they were famous and countercultural in their own society, but what that meant in a Moroccan context, and in musical terms, is very different. “Nass El Ghiwane isn’t a pop group in the classical sense, but more of a theatre group that sings,” noted Tayeb Seddiki, a theater director who helped launch their career. He continues:
“They’re sort of troubadours. In the Atlas Mountains, we have three or four poets who travel from souk to souk, from village to village, singing stories from a political, economic or sociological viewpoint that deeply interests people. […] Nass El Ghiwane were the first, and they still are. Moroccans recognize themselves in the group. They see their problems reflected in their songs, their daily lives and all their issues.”
This is something close to a working definition of the appeal of any ethnic or national folk music, music that seems to concentrate the experience of living within one’s culture into song. Like many American and British folk revival artists of the ‘50s and ‘60s, Nass El Ghiwane began by performing and reinterpreting traditional songs. In their case, this was romantic poetry that had been preserved through oral traditions going back generations. Once thoroughly steeped in the scales and structures of these familiar songs, they began to also create original material that felt to Moroccans like an organic outgrowth of their proud musical lineage.
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Though I eventually grew to appreciate the insistent rhythms and passionate group vocals of the LP I’d purchased, it wasn’t until I watched the 1981 documentary/concert film Trances (الحال) by director Ahmed El Maânouni that I got a better handle on what made Nass El Ghiwane such a profound experience to their fans. (I highly recommend this 88-minute film, which Criterion re-released in the 2000s. I was able to easily find a high quality rip on the Internet Archive, and this YouTube version is decent.) Nass El Ghiwane’s performances alternated between dramatic spoken word monologues and incantatory rave ups which left audiences in exhausted, cleansed heaps. The film makes explicit the connections between the ecstatic healing rituals of the Gnawa and the wild dancing of the band’s young fans:
Here, at last,
comes the time of ecstasy, of trances
Those who refuse to their senses
the gift of trances
shall wither
Trances also gives welcome insight into each member’s personality and role in the band. There is virtuosic banjo player Allal Yaâla, a quiet Black Moroccan with a mastery of Arabic, Berber, and occidental scales who taught the others much of their original repertoire. Tabla drummer and frequent lead singer Larbi Batma was their soul, a lanky, intense poet whose seriousness was offset by the sly humour of bendir (handheld frame drum) player Omar Sayed, the strongest actor of the troupe and perhaps its most gifted singer. The longest-running version of the band was rounded out by Abderrahmane "Paco" Kirouche on sintir (a sort of bass lute) and daadoua (a shoulder-held goblet drum), a robust man who’d been a woodcarver before finding musical success.
Nass El Ghiwane is an LP I appreciate more as I discover more of its context, knowing not only who these men are but how their talents fit together; some notion of where their music came from, and how audiences of their time received it. It benefits from being played as loudly as you’re comfortable with and being listened to in a meditative frame of mind. Nass El Ghiwane were “the Nass El Ghiwane of Morocco” just as they are the Nass El Ghiwane of Canada, Cambodia, and Fiji—but if a Scorsese quote comparing them to the Stones is what got me listening to them, I reckon that’s fair enough.
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* Also, bless the Plein Soleil press release writers for bolding Mohammed V’s name, in case there were any real Alawi-dynasty heads out there in record-land. Worth noting they got the wrong king though, as it was actually Mohammed V’s son Hassan II who was in power during NEG’s heyday!
#nass el ghiwane#gnawa#trance#moroccan music#Ahmed El Maânouni#rai#music review#vinyl record#martin scorcese#'70s music#north africa
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This day in history
#20yrsago Infosec advice for civil society https://web.archive.org/web/20020401204434/http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/
#15yrsago Brian Dettmer’s “Book Autopsies” — sliced book sculptures https://web.archive.org/web/20070925034123/https://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/
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Bauerfeind (Germany)
McDavid (U.S.)
LP SUPPORT (Taiwan)
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Under Armour (U.S.)
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Shock Doctor Sports (U.S.)
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