Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma album flac

Group Doueh is a family affair, with Doueh employing his wife Halima on vocals, and his sons El Waar (organ/keyboards) and Hamdan (drums). Doueh himself alternates between a three-stringed lute called a tinidit and an electric guitar. Like the prior Beatte Harab, this album was recorded by Sublime Frequencies' Hisham Mayet, who dampened the band's earlier lo-fi recording techniques while maintaining the raw heart of the Group Doueh sound. There has been some notable sonic evolution since Beatte Harab. In short, the rock and pop melodies that have always been present are given greater clarity, although Zayna Jumma still rests firmly within that pan-global mash-up of cultures they've ingeniously threaded together. It begins in a place of abstract euphoria, through the casually faltering rhythms of the title track.

Ishadlak Ya Khey, 04:11.

Summary: The Western Sahara band that comprises Salmou Baamar's family releases its latest album of North African, Mauritanian, and Gnawa music.

Group Doueh released a handful of albums via Sublime Frequencies and gained a bit of a European following from their crossover between traditional North African sounds and modern African rock. On Zayna Jumma, they unleashed more of the rock end of the spectrum, utilizing their fuzzy, amp-overloading, thumping electric instruments all over otherwise simple call-and-response numbers. While the clapping percussion common to North African music (and perhaps even some qaraqeb) is present, drum kits join in.

Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma In which another Hendrix fan, the West Saharan named Salmou Bamaar who performs as Doueh, is induced to record an entire album that lives up to the frantic weirdness of the first two tracks on 2009's Treeg Salaam

Group Doueh is part of a family entertainment business run by Salmou Baamar (aka Doueh), a native of Dakhla, Western Sahara. The rest of the group includes vocalists Halima Jakani (Baamar's wife) and Bashiri Touballi and keyboardist Jamaal Baamar (his son). As a youth, Baamar listened to cassettes of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix imported from Spain.

Throughout Group Doueh’s fourth album, Zayna Jumma, Salmou leads the group through a mix of traditional griot music and Hendrix-inspired acid rock, riffing and soloing over some heavy beats. You can tell why Western critics love this band from Western Sahara, and why the Sublime Frequencies label took interest. Group Doueh sound familiar yet exotic, and it’s easy to disappear into their ferocious two-chord vamps - at least, until you notice all the wild flailing shit Dad’s pulling out of his strings. The word ecstatic comes up a lot around Group Doueh