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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 while London-based Moroccans, MoMo, blend gnawa music with storming dance beats. DuOud are the latest North African sensation to prove that tradition and technology can mix and match to create a sound full of possibilities.
DuOud consist of two oud-playing Parisians who combine their North African heritage with the latest in Western technology. 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. Mehdi Haddab was born in Algiers. He spent time in Burundi, Central Africa, before settling in Paris. He was a third of the Parisian based trio Ekova, who specialised in the sort of global-meets- electronic-fusion that thrives in Paris.
‘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 complimented 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.’
DuOud consist of two oud-playing Parisians who combine their North African heritage with the latest in Western technology. 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. Mehdi Haddab was born in Algiers. He spent time in Burundi, Central Africa, before settling in Paris. He was a third of the Parisian based trio Ekova, who specialised in the sort of global-meets- electronic-fusion that thrives in Paris.
‘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 complimented 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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luannn
Fuck, why didn't I listened to this before?
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Hanode
like them..alot.
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Sandronic
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RASA-Utrecht
Love to see you in RASA, Utrecht, the Netherlands on october 2!
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crabby7
Amazing and wonderful. Addicted. Merci.
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Izgrejala
They are great! ^^
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Axel65
Fantastic Duo - saw them at the Moers Festival in 2005, amazing concert!
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