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Destination Halal

Amira Saqati

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Album Review

Amira Saqati's third album follows the path explored by numerous releases on the Barbarity label, blending traditional Moroccan melodies, singing, and instrumentation with modern pulsing electronic beats and sonic overlays aplenty. Though singer and multi-instrumentalist Youssef el Mejjad and programmer/samplers/arranger/producer/mixer Pat Jabbar are the main forces behind the act, they get lots of help from about a dozen other players, singers, and rappers. It's a dizzying swirl, both taken as a whole and within many of the individual tracks. Sad North African winding melodies may often be at the forefront (and are never far away from the core), but there are so many separate components employed and sampled that it would take several paragraphs to list them all. They include bee-buzzing traditional string instruments, haunting female backup vocals, occasional singing in French, electronic dance-rap, hard rock guitar, reggae-influenced vocals, dub-influenced effects, flutes, oud, and uneasily trance-like waves of electronic sound. If this kind of stuff isn't a main dish of yours, it might be just too rich a helping all at once, particularly on a disc that goes on for a good 68 minutes. If you do like it, it's certainly diverse and unpredictable in its shift of moods, and more effective as a segueing soundscape than for the quality of its individual cuts.

Customer Reviews

Amira Saqati

Excellent middle eastern music. Sabra Dima was played on the BBC in summer of 2006, I found the CD on an international music site. Great music for work. This album is recorded in a middle eastern lanuage. Can;t go wrong with tis one!

Biography

Formed: 1995

Genre: World

Years Active: '90s

A side project of the Moroccan dub/trance/trad music group Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects, featuring four members of the band, who are augmented by several "Agdal-Garden All Stars" on their 1995 release, Agdal Reptiles on Majoun. They construct interesting amalgams of traditional Moroccan sounds with New Order-type sampling, Bronxish rap beats, and blasts of synthesizers and other sound effects. Synthesizers and samplers sit alongside violins, mandolin, flute, rai-type vocals, and some electronic...
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