Berber Taxi

World | Apr 2011

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2011-07-11
Female vocalist singing Moroccan urban-World-Jazz with traditional Moroccan polyrhythms. Born in Southern Morocco, moved to France at age three. She now resides in NYC. Sings in many languages. "Morocco's Jazz jewel"
1: 4:05 mid to faster female vocal, sexy, throaty voice WOW!
2: 4:09 mid to faster, nice North African rhythm, great voice
****3: 5:42, sweet sounding scat style vocal, mid tempo
****4: 2:20 Oud intro then slow female wail.
5: 6:31 faster straight ahead Jazz with fem vocal, some in English
6: 1:21 nice bass line intro then fem vocal/wail
7: 5:43 mid tempo with driving rhythm, female vocal/wail, chorus
8: 4:25 slower, oud & vocal/wail
9: 5:18 guitar intro. slower vocal in French, then ramps up a bit with percussion, big bass. 10 sec fade
****10: 3:43 vocal/wail, big bass line, shaker percussion, 7 sec fade
***11: 4:53 plucked string noodling intro. then vocal in French , keyboard noodling. D  Farrell 07/2011

Recent airplay

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It's BollywoodSep 01, 2011
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At the Cafe BohemianAug 23, 2011
No Borders
Music CasseroleAug 19, 2011
Houaria
At the Cafe BohemianAug 09, 2011

Charting

2011-07-10 — 2011-09-11 Reggae/World
Week EndingAirplays
Sep 4 1
Aug 28 2
Aug 21 1
Aug 14 1
Aug 7 1
Jul 31 3
Jul 24 3
Jul 17 2

Track listing

1. Tamazight
2. Berber Taxi
3. Houaria
4. Prelude To Mossameeha
5. Mossameeha
6. Little Voice
7. Issawa's Woman
8. Leela
9. Amnesia
10. No Borders
11. Mon Printemps