BARBARITY 002
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
El Buya
Recorded at Larbi Studio, Agadir 1989 and at Shaidic Studio,
Marrakesh 1988 (8)
Mixed by Fido K. and P. Jabbar at MC Club Basel
MY. Cheb Ahmed – lead voice
Cheb Qchatar – acc g, el g, voice
El Habib el Malak – el g, acc g, voice
S’Mohamed Kbirr – vl, madndolin, voice
Rraki D. – darbukka, bendir, perc
Abdou el Shaheed – bass, voice, perc., noises
Jabbar el Shaheed – Sampl., el. G, voice, noises
Before Jedba
1.Aisha (A.K.J.E.) 6:02
2.Majiti Mataliti (A.K.J.E.) 4:08
3.El Mouka (A.K.J.E.) 3:25
4.Sankara (A.K.J.E.) 5:19
Jedba
5.Moulssinia (A.K.J.E.) 4:12
6.El Farrah (A.K.J.E.) 5:56
7.Laroussa (A.K.J.E.) 6:34
8.Roof Fish Suck 2 (A.K.J.E.) 2:36
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...it's a mass psychosis around a character called
Aicha Qandicha.
You ever heard of it?
Aicha Qandicha?
She's a woman- a spirit in the form of a woman.
Pratically every moroccan has had contact with her
some way or another.
She's legion, she's manifold.
I have a book that says about 25 years ago,
there
were 35000 men in Morocco married to her.
A lot of
people in Berrechid - the psychiatric hospital - are
married to her.
What exactly happens if you look at her?
Then you're married to her and that's that.
You
begin behaving very strangely.
There are several well known husbands of Aicha
Qandicha around Tangier:
they walk along brooks
and river beds,
hoping to hear her voice - you see
them wandering...
Taken from an interview with Paul Bowles in Tangier 1974.
