Search - Khalifa Ould Eide :: Moorish Music from Mauritania

Amazing Acousitc and Electric Music

achdukleidustein | Vladivistock | 03/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Amazing Female and Male Vocals, Hypnotic Trancelike Acoustic Set followed by Electric Set that will make you want to get up and dance.

Dimi Mint Aba is now a world music superstar; it is tragic her stuff is unavailable and out of print in the USA. Is it a masonic conspiracy, or just too much brittany spears. Would like to hear this on the loud speakers at whole foods and not just the same ole same ole 60's rock.

for more on African culture and the Mauritaneans: Africa Adorned"

Vocalist Extraordinaire

R. J MOSS | Alice Springs, Australia | 01/22/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Unbelievably, this was the first quality studio recording of Moorish music of the Islamic republic of Mauritania, the debut of singers Dimi Mint Abba and Kalifa Ould Eide. The hand of Ali Farka Toure is in there somewhere, too. Whatever, this is one great, great disc, if for no other reason, it is one of the few places you can access the extraodinary vocal gifts of the aforesaid, Dimi Mint(daughter) Abba. Both artists, known locally as iggawin, continue to hold and cherish traditional forms while improvising within them; an attitude that reminds me of the equally astonishing mugham singers in the East, Azerjaiban, wherever. This is one disc that a lover of the human voice cannot afford to miss."