Ideddir, Hassan

Atfalouna

Hassan Ideddir's 1989 single 'Atfalouna' sees an expanded repress on 12-inch vinyl. 'Atfalouna' is a dense slab of multi-genre pop. An opening wash of digital synths and reverberant vocals quickly falls away to a cascade of orchestra hits and pulsing electronic drums; the monotone chant-rap of a female chorus collides with Ideddir's soaring melismatic vocals, pleading against the injustice and hunger in the world. While hip-hop and new beat borrowed tropes from Arabic music, 'Atfalouna' inverts the gesture, resituating orchestra hits and sampling techniques within a Moroccan music framework.

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