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Air Gnawa

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Released: Jul 12, 2009

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Air Gnawa
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Seek the Ancient Paths
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Journeys Across Deserts
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Machine Against the Raj
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Rock the Howdah
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Barbary Lion

Barbary Lion
Secret Archives of the Vatican

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Genre: Dub / Fusion / Trip Hop
Location Croydon, Aberystwyth, the Budayeen, London and South East, UK
Profile Views: 76109
Last Login: 5/1/2012
Member Since 8/19/2006
Website http://www.brokendrumrecords.com
Record Label Broken Drum Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Secret Archives of the Vatican is a small, mobile, intelligent collective of musicians. They mix breakbeats, dubstep, dub, Arabian and Indian flavours, conscious lyrics, funky riddims and more to create their own unique sound.
Members
Vince Millett,Louis Counter,Pete Sharpe,Ginger Shinobi
Influences
..Transglobal Underground, Benga, Natacha Atlas, Talvin Singh, Burial, King Tubby, Clotaire K, Dhafer Youssef, Bill Laswell, Ojos de Brujo, Rachid Taha, Niyaz, dZihan & Kamien, The Spy From Cairo, U-Cef, Cheb I Sabbah, Dub Gabriel, Tabla Beat Science, Moving Ninja, MC Rai, Azzddine, Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects, Oojami, ItaLtEk, Lukid, Dub Gabriel, Onra, Aiwa, Temple of Sound, The Incredible String band, The Enid, Suns of Arqa, Omar Farouk Tekbilek, Sly & Robbie, Radio Tarifa, Spaceport Orchestra of Benares, Peter Gabriel, Squarepusher, Gotan Project, Bob Marley, Leftfield, Smadj, Skream, Fatboy Slim, MC Rai, Maghrebika, Psalm Drummers, 40 Thieves Orchestar, Mariza, Tinariwen, Gnawa Diffusion, L'ham de Foc, Music Matbakh, Bigg (al Khaser), Asian Dub Foundation, DJ Vadim, Justin Adams, Robert Plant...........Also: Dub, reggae, rai, shaabi, hiphop, triphop, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, Indian classical music, Arabian traditional music, Gnawa music, Turkish traditional music, tango (real, not ballroom!), rebetika, tabla players, oud players, ney players, scratch DJs, dub bassists, fretless guitar players, people who can play the djembe properly (almost none of them!), Jean Giraud aka Moebius, the Pub Landlord, Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, the Hairy Bikers, Dr Who ........and our favourite places: Istanbul, Marrakech, Essaouira, Croydon, Aberystwyth. ........................
Sounds Like
A festival band on a far distant desert planet......I guess we sound a bit like some of the bands in our influences list. However, we sound mostly like us.....Check out some more mp3s and some of our artwork on our website: ..www.brokendrumrecords.com..............................Click here to check out Secret Archives on ..Facebook............................