The oud, one of the most beautiful and oldest of instruments in the world is brought into the 21st Century in Smadj’s new project .
DuOud mix the North African lute with electronic technology, and do it with an imaginative freedom that sets them apart from their contemporaries. They build a musical cycle that looks both to African roots while absorbing elements of contemporary French music - break beats, jazz grooves and metal guitar are all invited to join the party. Wild Serenade is an album of dialogues between two men and two cultures.
New Album : Wild Serenade (Label Bleu, France)
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DuOud consist of two oud-playing Parisians who combine their North African heritage with the latest in Western technology. Smadj is Jean-Pierre Smadja - already noted for the two albums he issued as Smadj on MELT 2000 - is Tunisian by birth and trained as a jazz musician and sound engineer. His collaborator is master oud player Mehdi Haddab who was born in Algiers. He spent time in Burundi, Central Africa, before settling in Paris. He is also a third of the Parisian based trio Ekova, who specialise in the sort of global-meets- electronic-fusion that thrives in Paris.
North African musicians are proving to be amongst world music's most exciting pioneers: Khaled's pop-rai synthesis has made the Algerian Elvis a superstar. DuOud are the latest North African sensation to prove that tradition and technology can mix and match to create a sound full of possibilities.
'I'd been playing oud for a long time and had started to experiment with electronics,' says Mehdi. Smadj was creating electronic music for many years but he only recently started playing the oud. Once we sat down to make music together it turned out we complemented each other.'
‘We began to compose our own material,' adds Smadj, 'so we needed rhythms to support our improvisations - that's when we decided to put electronic beats behind our rehearsals. With time we just got involved in compositions with electronics.'
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