“Don’t ask me about any of these Berber cassettes,” said Rachid’s asssitant at Nassiphone (BCN’s best shop for Maghrebi sound) as he hefted a milkcrate from behind the counter. “I know as much as you do.” Meaning: very little.
the cover of this cassette depicts Mr Tamount seated, a capoed & fretted banjo loose in his hands. The orange photoshop blur behind him anticipates vocoders and drum machines coded into Berber patterns. Imazighen.
Idriss Tamount – ? (Box Music)
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For those who prefer less processed roots…
Amazigh band and dancers in the Atlas foothills, scattering timeless sound into the air with generator-powered amps. I enjoy watching the notion of a mainstream dissolve into a trillion scattered data-bites. Let’s dance on a red rug in wilderness!
The best part about YouTube is the impressionistic quality of its compression algorhythms… YouTube is always more storytelling than documentary. Suggests, does not inform.
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In this clip, a string player & vocalist the size of Godzilla perform over a rich evergreen forest while alien geometries intersect the landscape. Visuals a strange but not unsatisfying partner for the ensemble’s Berber folklorix.
youtube is a great resource for the history of parties that you (I) would like to have been at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE_UYZd354Q&mode=related&search=
Overdubs you would have liked to watch take place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDVngKClw4&NR
and (initiation/transference?) ceremonies that (I) don’t understand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeavG-I1Y4&NR
ah, that’s a terrible trackback quotation. what i said was, “ME TOO!”