Track List
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| 1 | Hammouda |
| 2 | Safi |
| 3 | Marra |
| 4 | Salam |
| 5 | Assaif |
| 6 | Matselounich |
| 7 | Oummi |
| 8 | Amina |
| 9 | Koulchi |
| 10 | Maddoumi |
| 11 | Kallouha |
| 12 | Litim |
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Release: "Marra" - Les Boukakes
 released 2008 |
Les Boukakes "Marra" Algeria/Tunisia/France |
Album
description
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On their third
album "Marra" Les Boukakes achieve to transfer the incredible
energy of their live concerts into the studio and unfold their
joyful playing in twelve ingenously arranged songs. The six
musicians merge wild rock and hard beats with tuneful oriental
sounds floating over which the adjuratory singing of Bachir
Mokthar. Screaming electrical guitars and rapid Karkabous
communicate with a fascinating ease. Next to the rock songs one
also finds on the diverse album melodious songwriting as well as
more traditional pieces, instrumented by the Gnawa lute guembri
or the oriental percussion tar.
Press Quotes
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fRoots: "Opener Hammouda sets the tone:
launched with a swung dub beat, it unexpectedly cuts into a distorted rock riff,
which in turn gives way to shuffling percussion and funky wah-wah. As the album
continues, derbouka, tar and bendir beat out Arab rhythms over rocky kit drums,
while acoustic guembri and charango tangle with electric guitar and keyboards.
Rachid Taha makes an inevitable and appropriate point of reference: Marra is
built upon the same genre-defying spirit, bringing a little gnawa and a lot of
rai together with diverse western styles. […] This diverse collection reminds us
that Les Boukakes are alive and well. Let's look forward to another exhilarating
European tour next year."
Sheffield Telegraph: "[…] Les Boukakes leave no
stone unturned in Marra, with their fusion of Eastern and Western rock. Playing
a sound that fuses as much world instrumentation as conventional bass, guitar
and drums, the band is impossible to pigeon hole. […] Marra is well worth a
listen - never predictable, packed with fresh instrumentation presented in the
unlikeliest of places."
Liberation: "Sur leur dernier album, le groupe joue
le raï comme si les Stones, les Doors ou les Clash s'étaient mis au blues du
bled."
Jazzthing: "Considerably more edged are Les
Boukakes who massively pump up their raï-rock on their new album Marra (Atlas
Music). Already the opening song combines heavy guitars and arabesques so
powerfully that Rachid Taha will soon become scared. And also the following
titles alternate in a skilful interplay between dirty reggae, rumbling gnawa
riffs and melodic Maghreb-rock – the guys from Montpellier are indeed playing in
a higher league than most exile-bands from France." (translated from German)
Sound & Image: "Rachid Taha has got competitors.
Les Boukakes from Montpellier are giving raï-rock a new drive. Their album Marra
is following their breakthrough-CD Bledi and transports hearty North-African
rock with reggae influences, but also calm acoustic-electric Arab pop. Unlike
Taha Les Boukakes seem to refine their songs to greater extent. […] In any case,
the guys always go strong when it comes to the heart beats - when guitars are
strumming, drums, derbouka and gnawa-plates are rattling, bass is mumbling and
Bachir Mokkhtar is raising his raspy voice." (translated from German)
Weltmusik-Magazin: "Les Boukakes from Montpellier
let it crash again heftily on their new album. Rock ’n’ raï they call their
music from orient and occident. In their speedy music they gaily and bold
combine elements of rock, raï, gnawa and chaâbi. Their success speaks for itself.
Their last album Bledi having been a master piece already, they can easily keep
up to this quality on Marra. Besides the usual line-up of a rock band they use
instrumentation such as guembri (the gnawa-lute), different oriental drums,
bouzouki and charango - altogether resulting in a pounding and colourful music."
(translated from German)
Freizeit-Kurier: "Oh wow – raï rocks! The
Tunisian-French-Corsican band is immensely sparkling and knows how to swing an
electric axe. In doing so these guys are groovy and danceable - and come up with
easygoing melodies just like that. Tasty orient-occident cocktail."
Links
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Les Boukakes' Myspace
Les Boukakes' Website
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