BAB L’ BLUZ – ‘SWAKEN’
Portentous, thundering, life affirming psychedelia from the French/Moroccan Bab L’ Bluz, alchemically fusing elements of Psychedelic and Hard Rock, Gnawa music, Funk, Chaabi, and various other Maghreb styles fomenting a heady, sweltering, generative sonic diaspora, kaleidoscopic and stargazing desert rock and high minded modal funk, utterly effusive and all-encompassing. Complex thumping rhythms heave with swollen grooves, lithe Rock guitars and Guembri spin dusty sandy riffs and atmospheric rock heroics, Bass and rhythm instruments thrum and drip in swaying pulsating meter, soaring soulful vocal dances across the instrumentation like a spiritual apparition risen to greet the falling purple sunset. Concussive, arresting and deeply consonant, these songs leap from the speakers with glistening mind-ensnaring melodies that last and evolutionary soulful instrumentation. A crucial collision of sounds from a group to keep a third eye on – Hot Psychedelic Gnawa Blues, fuckin’ a!
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