Mohamed Rouciha
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More superb Mohamed Rouicha on the MasterOne label. Similar to the Inass Inass record, but with shorter songs and a hint of autotune on the female chorus.
Slow, hypnotic rhythms beat out on buzzing bendirs hand drums provide the backdrop for Rouicha's virtuosic outar playing. Highly recommended.
Mohamed Rouicha
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Classic Mohamed Rouicha, recorded when his hair was still black. The Berber outar master rides again.
Track 4, an instrumental, scorches.
Mohamed Rouciha Inass Inass
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Inass Inass
Mohamed Rouciha's best album. Features his hit song, Inass Inass, and contains three more songs of outstanding quality. Released on the MasterOne label out of Fes, this tape finds Rouicha's outar (African lute; similar to the loutar, but smaller) playing at its fiercest. Gritty vocals and raw, echo-drenched production. Middle Atlas Berber chaabi ("popular") music at its finest.
The intro on Track 3 is ridiculously bad ass. R.I.P. Mohamed Rouicha (born January 1, 1950, died January 17, 2012).
