Artist.......: Duoud
Album........: Ping Kong
Label........: World Village / Harmonia Mundi
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: WVF 479025
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Feb-13-2009
str.date.....: Feb-12-2009
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/duoud
track title time
01. Johnny Guitar 04:17
02. Nude for Death 04:57
03. Missy Nouackshott 04:25
04. Genjiskan 04:21
05. Intros 01:12
06. Luthausore 04:53
07. Sable Θmouvant 04:19
08. Introm 01:09
09. Border Line 03:10
10. Must 04:06
11. Oud Art Corps 06:04
Runtime 42:53 min
Size 61,0 MB
Release Notes:
The oud, one of the most beautiful and oldest of
instruments in the world is brought into the 21st
Century in SmadjÆs new project . DuOud mix the
North African lute with electronic technology, and
do it with an imaginative freedom that sets them
apart from their contemporaries. They build a
musical cycle that looks both to African roots
while absorbing elements of contemporary French
music - break beats, jazz grooves and metal guitar
are all invited to join the party. Wild Serenade is
an album of dialogues between two men and two
cultures. New Album : Wild Serenade (Label Bleu,
France) Nominated as æBest NewcomerÆ in the BBC
World Music awards 2003 DuOud consist of two oud-
playing Parisians who combine their North African
heritage with the latest in Western technology.
Smadj is 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. His collaborator is master oud
player Mehdi Haddab who was born in Algiers. He
spent time in Burundi, Central Africa, before
settling in Paris. He is also a third of the
Parisian based trio Ekova, who specialise in the
sort of global-meets- electronic-fusion that
thrives in Paris. 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. DuOud are the latest
North African sensation to prove that tradition and
technology can mix and match to create a sound full
of possibilities. '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
complemented each other.' æWe 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.'