AL ZMAN SAIB LP + MP3

Reissue of very rare arabic funk music with a punk attitude, for fans of labels like Now Again, Pharaway Sounds, Soundway, Analog Africa, etc. Tracklist 1. Sid Redad 2. Laylat Al Jadba 3. Maktoub Lah 4. Tayeh 5. La Tiq Tiq Latiq 6. Al Zman Saib 7. Kalam Al Nass 8. Taarida 8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. So far Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcribtion of his name to latin letters differs)& his music had not been rediscovered, as a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the release from them. Vinyl and CD edition come with liner notes, unseen live photos and lyrics translations. From the press release: šThere was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by a band called ‚Fadaul et les Privilegesš and mentioned James Brown in the writing credits of the song ‚Sid Redadš on the a-side. Needless to say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was blown away. A cover of James Brown™s ‚Papa got a brand new bagš sung in arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It™s hard to describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists, even google didn™t help. A true gem forgotten about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw sound aesthetic of ‚Sid Redadš. Energetic performances, a mighty voice and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings.› šSid Redad› has gotten plays on BBC, Radio Nova and more, our Habibi Funk mixes habe been featured by The Guardian, Radio Nova, Waxpoetics, okayplayer.com, konbini.fr and many more. Is that Arabic? Very FUXXXING COOL!!š DJ Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5) |Yes Fadoul  Sid Redad soundcloud.com/habibifunk/fadaul-sid-redad-off-arabic-60s70s-vinyl-mix