Groovy Moroccan & Arabic Trip Hop, Dub, Rai'n'B and Dance tracks with noisy guitars and massive Basslines from Bill Laswell.

16 MP3 Songs in this album (76:31) !
Related styles: WORLD: World Fusion, ELECTRONIC: Trip Hop

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Kasbah Rockers is the new project of Pat Jabbar and different guests from the Barraka label, having combined chilling Trip Hop beats, RaiânâB, Dub and progressive Dance sounds with traditional Moroccan influences and instruments. Bill Laswell who is playing the bass on 11 tracks, grooves along with eclectic artists such as Youssef El Mejjad from Amira Saqati (Marrakech-Morocco), Abdelaziz Lamari and Abdelkader Belkacem from Maghrebika (Oran & Skikda-Algeria) or Kadir & Erdem from the Swiss-Turkish Hip Hop crew Makale. Their distinctive musical identities, are all fully integrated. For instance to the improvised recording sessions of the âbad girlsâ from B-Net Marrakech, or to the great and evocative voice of the young Turkish singer Oezlem Ylmaz. Another new artistic discovery were Hamza & Anass, the two brothers from the crew HS, rappinâ in French and Arabic about Moroccan street reality or moral and social issues.
The lyrical content of most of the other songs is much committed to the daily examinations of young Muslims in the western world, or on the other hand, to the confrontation with âwestern valuesâ in an Islamic world.
Anti Iraq-war song âFalludjah Carâ is sung in Turkish and Arabic, âBledstyleâ in Turkish only. But also more romantic lyrics as in âShtaâ do aerate the whole atmosphere:

I couldnât stand all the suffering, but thanx to Allah I learned to be patient
The thunder in the sky brought pleasant rain
The rivers are full of water and the flowers are growing
Death is asking Allah for mercy
Donât let the wolf be our friend
I want to be at the top of the the palm tree and be taken by the wind
And on the way I am looking for my love
They have been taken my love with a white car
And rain is falling and the flowers are growing
I couldnât stand all the suffering, but thanx to Allah I learned to be patient

âBledstyleâ and âShtaâ by the way, were chosen as a part of the soundtrack for the new Ridley Scott film âBody Of Liesâ (feat. Russel Crowse & Leonardo DiCaprio).