#fadaul

Bsslama Hbibti - Faddoul (Darham Ghaddar / Bsslama Hbibti, 197?)

Son du Jour BONJOUR aka Habibi Funk 

Den Anfang macht "Al Zman Saib” (Time Is Hard), das erste Album von Fadoul, eine Mischung aus weiteren arabischsprachigen Covern (u.a. “All Right Now” von Free) und Eigenkompositionen. Die Platte kam schon letztes Jahr auf Habibi Funk raus, war vergriffen, ist ab Ende Februar aber wieder lieferbar.

rahnee mustah kelkah ! !

Habibi Funk collectively are very happy to announce their second Habibi Funk re-release by ‪#‎Fadoul‬, Morocco's answer to James Brown. 8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. Up until recently Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcribtion of his name to latin letters differs) had not been rediscovered, as a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the release from them. "Is that Arabic? Very FUXXXING COOL!!“ DJ Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5) from the press release: “There was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by a band called "Fadaul et les Privileges“ and mentioned James Brown in the writing credits of the song „Sid Redad“ on the a-side. Needless to say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was blown away. A cover of James Brown’s „Papa got a brand new bag“ sung in arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It’s hard to describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists, even google didn’t help. A true gem forgotten about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw sound aesthetic of „Sid Redad“. Energetic performances, a mighty voice and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings.” Pre-order: habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/al-zman-saib