listening to Ahmed Soultan first album, one finds himself literally carried away with delight by the flow of these new sensations emanating from his musical universe.
Actually, Ahmed Soultan has been thinking his creation with an innovative spirit, giving it,that way,its full meaning :this, the pieceswith which the artist honours us, all his album long, could notbe categorized in any musical registrer,because of their sweet originality.
Born in Morocco, in a village of the region of Souss, Ahmed Soultan spent his youth in France, punctuated with regular way-back to his country of origin, where he soaked himself in the surf-culture, taking up, each time again with his roots, and deciding, at last, to join his native Morocco for good.
Showing first little interest for music, his open-mindedness and curiosity still pushed him to take some concords out of guitar, borrowed by a chance encounter.
But, its in 1997 that his artistic instinct asserts itself : time when Ahmed Soultan crosses again the path of two old friends, once met at at school, and forming today the french banc name « Afrodiziac ».
With them, he will learn the weels of the buisness , discovering that way, whats going on underneath it all : this encounter will prove to be decisive and will mark a radical turning point in his artistic conception.
Though he is not a commonly cammed « committed artist », Ahmed Soultan still tries to arouse people consciouness, advocating, then, tolerance.
But, his album tends to be more than a simple claim, it is the outcome of an innovating quest, givaing birth to what Ahmed Soultan takes pleasure in calling « Arabic Urban Music ».
This subtle mixture of influences dares arabic texts put on stirring mid-tempos, offering, that way, very new horizons to Moroccan Music.
merci pour l'add^^ j'avais tellement kiffé que j'avais importé l'album Tolérance d'angleterre... bref merci pour ce pur son aussi cosmopolite qu'envoûtant =) bonne continuation
j'adore la couture morrocaine! ma famille sont muslimane meme si j;uis pas du tout. je practique le bhuddisme. alors, j'adore touts des choses morrocaines. c'eteait une declaration d'amour a travers ma cravate.
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U-CEF Halalwood
First there was Hollywood…then Bollywood…and now…Halalwood, Morocco's first and foremost digitalizer's debut album for Crammed.
‘Halalwood’ is a tour-de-force which puts gnawa music, dub, sinuous classic Arabic arrangements for qanun, flute & violins, electronic beats, rappers & MCs, big drums & crunchy rock guitars in a giant blender to produce something fresh and original… U-Cef has all the legitimacy & inspiration needed to navigate between cultures, without any prejudices, disrespect or fear: Born and raised in Rabat, he absorbed much of his native Morocco's multiple traditions before moving first to New York and then to London, immersing himself along the way in the Western world's electronic & rock scenes. His first CD ‘Halalium’ (2001) was a milestone in Moroccan urban dance music, and has inspired a whole generation of rappers, b-boys and pro-tools adventurers, from Tangiers to Taroudant and Melilla to Marrakech.
Featuring an exciting cast of high-profile guests including Damon Albarn, Natacha Atlas, Rachid Taha, Mirror System (Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy), Oum Alright, UK Apache, Amina Annabi, Justin Adams and Moroccan rap duo Dar Gnawa.
Avec le succès de son titre "Ya-Salam", que l'on découvrait en 2006, Ahmed Soultan se révèle définitivement être l'Objet Sonore Non Identifié pressenti alors... En effet, "Ya Salam" , titre phare de son premier album Tolerance, paru la même année, a reçu un très bel accueil et un soutien médiatique tel qu'Ahmed Soultan s'est rapidement vu proposer des supports jusque là peu familiers de ce mouvement appelé "Nayda", nouvelle scène marocaine.
Aujourd'hui, Ahmed Soultan nous revient avec un nouvel album, Code, dans lequel on retrouve toute l'originalité et la diversité qui le caractérisent.Mais,l'on s'y heurte aussi agréablement à certaines compositions inattendues,à l'instar de son premier extrait "Achkide",où il nous dévoile une autre de ses facettes linguistiques...
Ainsi on pourrait définir Ahmed Soultan comme un artiste minutieux, prenant son temps pour nous proposer le fruit d'un travail au plus proche de sa personne.
Aussi saura-t- il donc être sans nul doute à la hauteur de ce prochain rendez-vous donné à ce public qu'il s'est constitué, et qui l'attend certainement avec grande impatience.
