Other Music from Other Worlds (subtitle: 'listen to a fool)
Golden Hands - What To Say (Part I & II)
"...and so you stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with the bagpipes that are listened to by 4 cats and that not even their relatives buy!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, a pompous know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy in that movie said... I propose you listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has come into my hands and ears over the years. You, heed a fool, lose yourselves for 5 minutes in listening (reading, watching, eating, smelling...) to the same things you already know how they are; if you don't take risks, what happens is that your brain simply atrophies.
18) Golden Hands
Are you ready for Moroccan funk?
Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, at the dawn of the reign of Hasan II, Morocco (but also a good part of Africa bordering the Mediterranean) was home to rock, jazz, funk, and a bunch of other Western music. Whether this was good or bad is not the case to discuss here; let’s just acknowledge that "from Casablanca to Tangier, from Marrakech to Rabat, nightclubs and other concert halls have seen a good number of small, more or less amateur and definitely DIY groups come and go, some of which have been catapulted onto the international scene like Golden Hands." In fact, the band, founded in '69 by the El Makane brothers, made it to Europe with their "funk in Moroccan style" and released their only album (Golden Hands) in 1978, but only on cassette from the Moroccan label Disques Gam. Needless to say - in certain circles of enthusiasts like myself - that cassette became a cult object over the years...
Then, fortunately, someone (I think it was Sdban rec. or something similar) thought it wise to reprint it.
And so here it is, THE MOROCCAN FUNK!
Are you ready?
Golden Hands - What To Say (Part I & II)
"...and so you stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with the bagpipes that are listened to by 4 cats and that not even their relatives buy!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, a pompous know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy in that movie said... I propose you listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has come into my hands and ears over the years. You, heed a fool, lose yourselves for 5 minutes in listening (reading, watching, eating, smelling...) to the same things you already know how they are; if you don't take risks, what happens is that your brain simply atrophies.
18) Golden Hands
Are you ready for Moroccan funk?
Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, at the dawn of the reign of Hasan II, Morocco (but also a good part of Africa bordering the Mediterranean) was home to rock, jazz, funk, and a bunch of other Western music. Whether this was good or bad is not the case to discuss here; let’s just acknowledge that "from Casablanca to Tangier, from Marrakech to Rabat, nightclubs and other concert halls have seen a good number of small, more or less amateur and definitely DIY groups come and go, some of which have been catapulted onto the international scene like Golden Hands." In fact, the band, founded in '69 by the El Makane brothers, made it to Europe with their "funk in Moroccan style" and released their only album (Golden Hands) in 1978, but only on cassette from the Moroccan label Disques Gam. Needless to say - in certain circles of enthusiasts like myself - that cassette became a cult object over the years...
Then, fortunately, someone (I think it was Sdban rec. or something similar) thought it wise to reprint it.
And so here it is, THE MOROCCAN FUNK!
Are you ready?
lector
10 apr 23
DeRank ™: 41,38
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