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Abou Maye LP

by Fawda

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1.
Abou Maye 06:05
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2.
Legarsi le gambe 00:30
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3.
Menelik 05:40
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4.
El Ghiza 01:53
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5.
African Piano 06:02
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6.
Poveri idioti 01:03
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7.
Semien Hotel 10:27
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8.
Doni e Droni 07:07
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9.
Mimouna 05:36
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10.
I libri di storia 01:15
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SIDE A1
Abou Maye 6’05”
« Legarsi le gambe » 30”
Menelik 5’38”
El Ghiza 1’53”
African Piano 6’02”
«Poveri idioti» 1’01”
SIDE B1
Semien Hotel 10’27”
Doni e Droni 7’06”
Mimouna 5’36”
« I libri di Storia » 01’13”

credits

released May 6, 2022

Réda Zine: Vocals, Guembri, Effects. Fabrizio Puglisi: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Synth Arp Odyssey, Percussions, Backing Vocals. Danilo Mineo: Percussions, Pad percussion, Efx, Backing Vocals. Brothermartino: Drum machine, Synth, Flute, Tenor Sax, Backing Vocals.
Featuring: Amine Ezzalzouli and Badr Boytlen on "Mimouna" and "poveri idioti"


Sound Engineer: Andrea Scardovi.
Assistant Sound Engineer: Marco Marangoni.
Production Manager: Giulia Torelli.
Artwork: Squaz. 2022.

Lyrics by Réda Zine (except « Mimouna »)
Music by Réda Zine, Fabrizio Puglisi, Danilo Mineo and Martino Bisson except « Mimouna » (Traditional) and « African Piano » (Dollar Brand)
2022 © SIAE © GEMA.


Recorded, mixed and mastered at Duna Studio. Russi (Ra) June/July 2021.
Brutture Moderne 2022.

Fawda would like to THANK all friends and family here for the support along all this years, Maallem Zakaria Ibrahim (El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music), Fendika Cultural Center of Addis Ababa, Melaku Belay, Endris Masinqo, Abu Gebre, Eleonora Iannotta, Filippo Giuffré.
Dedicated to: the spirit of the Zar master Hassan Bergamon (1948 - 2020)

Liner notes

After “Road to Essaouira”, we took off the Trio from our name to remain: Fawda. Our paths cross the tragical mediterranean sea again toward the South to meet with friends from Zar and Rango Egyptian and Sudanese traditions until Addis Ababa to meet and perform with local Ethiopian musicians - that we previously met few years before here in Italy. The main reflections on this second LP is the continuous unresolved western particularly Italian colonial heritage (in Libia and Ethiopia).
This album would have been recorded many years before most of the tracks of the album were somehow written before the pandemic, except the improvised pieces we recorded live in studio over snatches of conversations from banned libian film Lion of the Desert (1981), of Mustafa Akkad, dedicated to anti colonial figure of Omar el Mukhtar, killed ( 1858-1931) by fascist Italian regime, set hundred year ago, still resonate as pertinent and seems from nowadays. It was a matter of time to meet together and produce the record that reflects our path.
We started the album with Abou Maye, a song in arabic darija, that narrate our trip from Bologna to Cairo, a satirical story telling under the guidance and the step dances of the protector of the traveler’s musicians: “Abou Maye, the Gnawa sultan’s …We went Ghiza in the morning, pyramids and Sphinx, with melodies of old Sun Ra song because Space is the place, Cops confiscated the instruments, we hided and introduced one; we just started playing under Cheops with the koyo, They come back and chased away from pharaohs land ». Menelik also in darija, lyrics celebrate the courage and the sisyphian attempts for a better life :« I crossed seas and rivers, traveled night and day, to found you in the Roman’s land/your eyes dazzled me and remind me Africa (…) Africa is full of banks, it’s a ship full of debts, you know now why she is more angry? it’s for the blood of its lost children’s ». It’s also refers to iconic Ethiopian emperor Menelik II who fought and won against Kingdom of Italy : « Menelik, the king of kings, he fought until death, independence is as necessary as life, to realize our destiny ». Written in Italian language, Doni e Droni (Gifts and Drones) lyrics narrate a long forgotten trip between west and east Africa, « paths of Glory» caravan’s in the Sahel region and nowadays Saba queens figures lost in the desert, on the road to Jerusalem, crossing all troubles of refugee’s camps, drones surveillance and electrified borders of this digital era: « Gifts, drones and myrrh/Gerusalem is sighs/ Uncle Sam is delirious/ but the world does not turn around» . Finally, we had the pleasure to feature friends Amine Ezzalzouli and Badr Boytlen to add massive back vocal and krakebs effects on our adaptation of Mimouna, a trance healing song referring to king of Djinn: Sidi Mimoun consor, important and esteemed Gnawa brotherhoods in Morocco descendent from black slaves deported from sub-Saharan West African countries, perpetuating the original circle of L’aada (traditional opening of a ceremony) with the ganga drums: « O Mimouna, I can’t handle it, there’s too much madness going on »

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Fawda Bologna, Italy

Fawda (arabic word for Chaos) started in Bologna from an idea of Reda, Fabrizio, Danilo & Brormartino.
The sound is a mix between electronic music, contemporary jazz and Gnawa healing trance and ancient possession cults, afrofuturist visions and post colonial flash back.
As you noticed we took off Trio from our name and changed BC page after LP "Road to Essaouira". Thanks for the love & support ... more

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