Bargou 08 – Targ LP

Bargou 08 ‎– Targ
Label:
Glitterbeat ‎– GBLP 045
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 17 Feb 2017
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, Tribal

“Nidhal began collecting songs from all over the valley more than ten years ago,” explains producer and keyboard player Sofyann Ben Youssef, who’s known Yahyaoui since they were both ten years old. “No one had ever done that before. He listened to the women, to the village elders, and he learned all the variations on the songs. This is his passion, and he asked me to join him.”

Together, they assembled a collective of both local and European musicians who spent three weeks playing in the Yahyaoui family home in Bargou village. They worked on the material, shaping a sound that harnessed the power of the tradition and connected it to something the young would understand.