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The Playlist: Middle Eastern And North African Music | Musique Non Stop

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Playlist: Middle Eastern And North African Music

In the latest of our playlist series, John Doran takes a look at Moorish griot, pop chaabi, electro acoustic ambient and industrial bounce


Read last month's playlist for Middle Eastern and North African music


Tzenni is a Hassaniya Arabic word meaning to spin or turn. It is also the name of the rotating dance performed to the music played by Moorish griots across the desert region of Mauritania. And on top of that it is also the title of an excellent new album by a preternaturally talented singer called Noura Mint Seymali which is coming out via Glitterbeat on 23 June. Give the title track a spin and youll hear a vigorous and highly enjoyable clash of temporally and spatially diverse influences. Noura may come from a very long family line of griot artists, but she is patently also a modernising, transformative force in Mauritanian music. It is fair to say that shes probably a fan of some Western pop and rock, but she uses these influences on her own terms.


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by John Doran via Electronic music | The Guardian

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