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Hi Folks,
We recently released our debut album. It's a mix of electronic and ethnic/arabian styles, some downtempo, and some eastern european influences also.
There's four full tracks available to listen online.
www.myspace.com/nomadiqa
Have a listen and see what you think. Sorry for the self promotion.
Here's the review as well, from the October issue of fRoots magazine.
Many thanks,
Nomadiqa
www.nomadiqa.com
*** Review from October fRoots ***
Starting with the rocking and hypnotic track, Orient House, Sans Frontiéres is a promising entrance onto the fusion scene from the widespread collective, Nomadiqa, led by DJ and composer Kemal Okan and oriental percussionist Max MacLeod. For this debut album they've gathered together nine musicians and vocalists hailing from Scotland, France and Spain, but even though the press release makes much of the multi-ethnic roots of the band and of Kemal's seven original compositions, the overall atmospheric moodiness of the sound brings to mind the wide empty landscapes that speak more of the Middle East than north of the border. This is tangible even in Lila Senior's gracefull Shetlandic fiddle which gives us the most evocative and emotive of the melodies that loop their way throughout the album.The three traditional based tracks are undoubtedly the cream of Nomadiqa's performances; the mournfull and elegant rap, Birds Of Babylon, an arrangement of a Klezmer melody, it's poetical and dark lyrics written and spoken by Max Turner; the menacing, resonating bass on Goçtü Kervan; and Nerea Bello's ethereal vocals on Sa O Roma, recognisable as Hidrelez from Mercan Dede's Sufii Dreams - throughout the album there are inevitable comparisons that could be made in that direction. The insisitent, driving rhythms in Kemal's composititons are occasionally too dependent on dominating drum and bass and can be distracting and repetitive, with a tendency to overpower the delicate textures and contrasts in pace on individual tracks. This heavy-handed beatbox style is slightly puzzling in view of Max MacLeod breadth of expertise on percussion. But despite this, Sans Frontiéres comes across as a polished and well-crafted album - you can feel the care with which it has been put together - and it prooves that Nomadiqa have an admirable potential with more where that came from.
We recently released our debut album. It's a mix of electronic and ethnic/arabian styles, some downtempo, and some eastern european influences also.
There's four full tracks available to listen online.
www.myspace.com/nomadiqa
Have a listen and see what you think. Sorry for the self promotion.
Here's the review as well, from the October issue of fRoots magazine.
Many thanks,
Nomadiqa
www.nomadiqa.com
*** Review from October fRoots ***
Starting with the rocking and hypnotic track, Orient House, Sans Frontiéres is a promising entrance onto the fusion scene from the widespread collective, Nomadiqa, led by DJ and composer Kemal Okan and oriental percussionist Max MacLeod. For this debut album they've gathered together nine musicians and vocalists hailing from Scotland, France and Spain, but even though the press release makes much of the multi-ethnic roots of the band and of Kemal's seven original compositions, the overall atmospheric moodiness of the sound brings to mind the wide empty landscapes that speak more of the Middle East than north of the border. This is tangible even in Lila Senior's gracefull Shetlandic fiddle which gives us the most evocative and emotive of the melodies that loop their way throughout the album.The three traditional based tracks are undoubtedly the cream of Nomadiqa's performances; the mournfull and elegant rap, Birds Of Babylon, an arrangement of a Klezmer melody, it's poetical and dark lyrics written and spoken by Max Turner; the menacing, resonating bass on Goçtü Kervan; and Nerea Bello's ethereal vocals on Sa O Roma, recognisable as Hidrelez from Mercan Dede's Sufii Dreams - throughout the album there are inevitable comparisons that could be made in that direction. The insisitent, driving rhythms in Kemal's composititons are occasionally too dependent on dominating drum and bass and can be distracting and repetitive, with a tendency to overpower the delicate textures and contrasts in pace on individual tracks. This heavy-handed beatbox style is slightly puzzling in view of Max MacLeod breadth of expertise on percussion. But despite this, Sans Frontiéres comes across as a polished and well-crafted album - you can feel the care with which it has been put together - and it prooves that Nomadiqa have an admirable potential with more where that came from.
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