SPEED CARAVAN/ ALBUM LAUNCH @ DINGWALLS 7th OCTOBER (LONDON)
WITH SPECIAL GUEST APPEARENCE, RICHARD ARCHER, SPEX MC ...
DON'T MISS IT !!
ALBUM KALASHNIK LOVE - "SPECIAL EDITION" Produit par David HUSSER
OUT NOW A L'INTERNATIONAL ( Real World Records)
«Brulant comme un meteorite au moment de toucher l'atmosphere, ce disque sexy et flamboyant ravira les amateurs de fusions implacables. » Mondomix
"Speed Caravan are a wonderful blend of traditional algerian incluences, electronic beats and raw rock energy. It's one of the most exciting hybrids i've heard for a long while". Peter Gabriel in Songlines.
« Dans Kalashnik Love, le luthiste Algerien Mehdi Haddab guide le trio Speed Caravan, oud electrique en main, vers l’essence de la creation et du rock’n’roll. Dans un voyage hallucinant, entre compositions et reprises, la caravane rapide transcende les epoques et les styles. Yallah ! » RFI
Dans cette aventure sonore mêlant musique orientale, rock and roll et beats électro, Mehdi Haddab, musicien d’origine algérienne, avec son jeu furieusement électrique transforme radicalement l’image du Oud. Au gré du parcours de la caravane et des rencontres, il s’entoure de talentueux compagnons : Rachid Taha,
Richard Archer (Hard Fi)r, Rodolphe Burger, Rocky Singh et MC Spex, ex membres d'Asian Dub Foundation ,des vocalistes du collectif hip hop algérien MBS, du bassiste Pascal Teillet, du batteur Franck Vaillant, du chanteur et joueur de Oud Abdulatif Yagoub et nous propulse avec eux aux avants postes d’une musique actuelle au carrefour des 5 continents.
MEHDI : Electric oud PASCO : Bass HERMIONE : Computer SIMO : Percussion. Vocals ROCKY : Drums, Vocals
AFTER A MASSIVE WORLD TOUR (WOMAD UK, WOMAD LAS PALMAS,
WOMAD AUSTRALIA, WOMAD NEW ZEALAND, ITALIA WAVE, GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL, MUNDIAL FESTIVAL, TIMITAR FESTIVAL, OLLIN KAN, MIDDLE EAST TOUR... and more to come),
SPEED CARAVAN IS BACK ON REAL WORLD RECORDS WITH SOME NEW TRACKS AND REMIXES
SPEED CARAVAN Album KALASHNIK LOVE -" SPECIAL EDITION"
OUT NOW WORLDWIDE!!! (REAL WORLD RECORDS)
Produced by DAVID HUSSER
Featuring RACHID TAHA, RICHARD ARCHER, RODOLPHE BURGER, SPEX MC and ROCKY SINGH (ex members of ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION), MBS
“I’ve always had this rage that I need to express.” Mehdi Haddab sits back, rests his electric oud on his lap. “Rage against, I don’t know… injustice. Inequality. The system. And music – loud music – is the thing that helps me channel it.”
Better hold on: with Mehdi Haddab behind the wheel of Speed Caravan you know you’re in for a ride. Electrified, amplified and fuelled by creative fire, the Paris-based quartet charge towards a psychedelic horizon; slaloming through rock, dance, electro, hip hop, world and other music – blazing a trail with raised fists, a hand brake turn and a sharp spray of desert sand.
Haddab is a virtuoso of the classical oud, that fretless Arabic lute beloved of Middle Eastern orchestras and an instrument with a history stretching back over 5,000 years. Inspired by traditional players such as post WW2 sensation Udi Hrant Kenkulian, Haddab mastered the instrument and took it with him into French global electronica trio Ekova and the acclaimed experimental duo DuOud.
Speed Caravan started performing as a trio: Haddab, with bass player and long-time friend Pascal ‘Pasco’ Teillet; and electronic beat mistress and former Ekova member, Hermione Frank. Word of mouth spread, as audiences marvelled at Haddab’s flamboyant, frenetic style (not for nothing has he been called the Hendrix of the oud); at the way Pasco’s bass underlined the oud’s arabesques; at the way Frank grooved at her computer. Later the trio were joined by deft percussion skills and throaty vocals of Moroccan-born Mohamed ‘Simo’ Bouamar, who kept the vibe firmly in the East. At last, the drummer and singer, Rocky Singh (ex member of Asian Dub Foundation), also joined the band. With his powerful, cheerful play with the drums and his heart of rocker, he multiplies by ten the energy rock’n’roll of the live.
Speed Caravan’s debut album Kalashnik Love – its title track a furious homage to Udi Hrant - combines tradition and future, ancient and urban, beauty and fury to stun-gunning effect. Laden with special guests and throbbing with raw rock energy it references everyone from The Cure and The Chemical Brothers to Algerian rai and other Arabic influences. The sublime result of several year’s worth of incendiary live touring, it is fusion - but not as we know it.
Kalashnik Love boasts an army of like-minded collaborators. Sound engineer and sonic architect David Husser. Rachid Taha, the rai rebel himself, weighing in on an urgent version of The Cure’s Killing An Arab. A cover version of The Chemical Brothers’ Galvanise grabs by the scruff and doesn’t let go. Adding their own rage to the already considerable fury of the Berber-music-sampling original are Spex MC ex member of Asian Dub Foundation, Algira, Rabah and Deymed of Algiers-based hiphop outfit Micro Brise le Silence; and civil rights activist Paul Kendall “The Chemical Brothers were using Arabic music to shock,” says Haddab of the English electro rock duo. “We’re hitting them back with another interpretation, like you would in a racquet game.”
Other guests include Yemeni singer Abdulatif Yacoub, guitarist Rodolphe Burger, Asian Dub Foundation’s Rocky Singh, Richard Archer from indie-rock gods Hard-Fi, percussionists Arnaud Dieterlen, and Rabah Khalfa (usually heard backing Algerian chanteuse Souad Massi), young Serbian synthesiser prodigy, Viorel Tajkuna, renowned Breton vocalist Erik Marchand. Remixes add final touches to the album: celebrated British producer Sidestepper gives us a visionary Daddy Lolo. Malian innovator Mo DJ works his magic on Aissa Wah.
Kalashnik Love is, then, some album; one born of rage, and rock, and love.
“The oud comes from the desert, where water is precious. It looks like a water bowl. It’s shaped like a teardrop. There is no instrument for me that is better.” He flashes a grin. “Soft or loud,” he says.
CIAO!
TI RUBO UN PO' DI SPAZIO SOLO PER DIRTI CHE E' USCITO "WAKE UP"
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GIULIO,ICY[MICRO20],DUSCIAN[FULLCLIP TEAM],SECOMAN & MUCH MORE...
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SVJATA VATRA Performance to Be Broadcasted by 24 European Radio
Stations EuroSonic,
Grand Theatre, Noorderslag Groningen, The
Netherlands!
Presented by ESTONIAN RADIO Radio 2
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12.01.2010 Tallinn Tapper club
Bonjour !! Merci pour ce fantastique concert à Pantin ! Votre musique est une source d'inspiration pour mon project électro-world que je suis en train de remonter avec un joueur de oud... Bonne continuation. RL
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