Psychedelic Gnawa Moroccan Blues? Shoot it directly into my veins, please.
Bab L’ Bluz, the four person French-Moroccan quartet that has been my ears for weeks, released a killer album this year that I am inviting you obsess over with me.
From Bab L’ Bluz’s wesbite:
Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, the band are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. Ancient and current, funky and rhythmic, buoyed by Arabic lyrics, soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves, Nayda! seems to pulse from the heart of the Maghreb.
What’s not to love. Get lost in their first single Ila Mata with me, below…
Musical Passport 