| Alileche, Moh / When The Dust Settles - Tamdit B' Wass |
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| Album: | When The Dust Settles - Tamdit B' Wass | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Alileche, Moh | Added: | Jan 2013 | |
| Label: | Flag Of Freedom Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-01-19 | Pull Date: | 2013-03-24 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Mar 24 | Mar 17 | Mar 10 | Mar 3 | Feb 24 | Feb 17 | Feb 10 | Feb 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
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| 2. | Jan 02, 2014: | KZSU Top 100 of 2013 Volunteer's Day - Tashmlit | 5. | Mar 13, 2013: | Mediterraneans Blaming Myself - Lemmar | |
| 3. | Mar 23, 2013: | Music Casserole Loving Again - Tayri | 6. | Mar 09, 2013: | Music Casserole Kamel Zennia - Stranger - Averrani |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2013-01-18 | ||
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Moh Alilech – When the Dust Settles Reviewed by Sadie O., 1/18/13 Berber music from Algeria. Mostly sounds more like Rai and Middle Eastern pop as opposed to the Tuareg music that we hear a lot of these days – at least to me. Alileche plays a 10 stringed mandol (“agember” in the Tamazight Berber language) and I think he sings in Tamazight at least part of the time. Frankly, I’m not getting a totally solid fix on this from the liner notes – but it’s basically North African/Arabic, really gorgeous. Track one is more simple in instrumentation, track 7 has a depressing intro in English, track 8 has an electric Reggae groove, and track 9 has almost a dubstep sound woven in – but other than that, it’s fairly similar throughout… 1. 2:59 **handdrums and flute, very sort of simple wanderer-roots sound, but with good energy. The flute sounds very Celtic at times – interesting. Male vocals, call and response. 2. 4:07 **starts with solo oud (?), recorded with a lot of echo, then full group, sounds like Rai, upbeat. 3. 3:21 **fast syncopated dance, complex tune, wonderful instrumentation. 4. 4:03 **spoken male/female exchange in Arabic for about 20 seconds, then upbeat and pretty, swingy. 5. 4:38 **mandol and drones intro, really gorgeous midtempo instrumental with full band, deeply evocative of North Africa. 6. 3:47 **midtempo swingy dance-y groove, music seems to swirl around. 7. 4:36 *female spoken word in English, with violin. Quite depressing, thanks. After that’s done, turns into quite a gorgeous midtempo dance (vocals seem to be in North African-inflected French), but it’s similar to other tracks that don’t have such sad intros… 8. 3:54 **by a different artist, with full electric band, Reggae groove, relaxed, with a Spanish tinge… 9. 4:16 ***wowzers – very different sound! Same musical structure, but with buzzy electronics. Nice! Female backing chorus, lyrics at least partially in English. All about uprising, and the Arab Spring. | ||
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