BARBARITY 009
AHLAM
Acting Salam
Produced and arranged by Bill Laswell and Pat Jabbar.
Recorded at: Bouaza, Casablanca; Ziryab, Casablanca
1991-1994.
Additionnal recording and mixing at Greenpoint
studio, NY, 1994.
Bill Laswell - b 1, 3, 6, 9, 6-string bass 6, shortwave radio 3
Cheb Fajer – voice
El Faris – voice
Imam el Rika – voice
Jelmoudi – mandoline
Cheb Qchatar – el g
Pat Jabbar – synth, sampl.
Jedbasicians:
Robert Musso - el g 6
Likkle Jer – chant
Fido K. – MIDI bass 7, 12
Nourdine – viol 5, 9
Abdou – perc 4, 5, 9
E. B. Mohamed – inspiration on 2, 3, 8
1. Tkelemti (Ahlam-Bill Laswell) 6:16
2. Shouma (Ahlam) 5:05
3. Ash Men Hila (Ahlam-Bill Laswell) 6:50
4. Salam (trad.-Ahlam) 5:39
5. Terradi (trad.-Ahlam) 3:10
6. Irfiq Rak 2 (Ahlam-Bill Laswell) 7:04
7. Shabab (Ahlam) 6:02
8. YaILLAH (Ahlam) 3:39
9. Mashi (trad.-Ahlam-Bill Laswell) 4:36
10.Masmouki (Ahlam) 4:20
11.Ghab (Ahlam) 4:28
12.Shabab Dub (Ahlam) 6:03
Before "Acting Salam"
1993 was the year AHLAM's (The Dreams) debut
album "Revolt Against Reason" intrigued the
international press with their statements and made
some noise a little bit over the world. Some called
them a Garage version of Khaled, some the Dream
Sowers or a bridge between Arabs and Jews.
Intense and vivid reactions
A first page article in the New York Press under the
title "Shock the Casbah" provoked quite intense
and vivid reactions. The album was for two months
number one in the EBU World music Charts. Still in
Marrakech, the same members including Cheb
Qchatar bring you now "Acting Salam", another
M.F. Message to the whole M.F. Planet and to all
our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, Gaza,
Palestine, Algeria, Bosnia, Turkey, Tchetchenia,
etc..
It's time fo the real Salam