Group Doueh is part of a family entertainment business run by Salmou Baamar… Read Full Bio ↴Group Doueh is part of a family entertainment business run by Salmou Baamar (aka Doueh), a native of Dakhla, Western Sahara. The rest of the group includes vocalists Halima Jakani (Baamar's wife) and Bashiri Touballi and keyboardist Jamaal Baamar (his son). Rhythm duties are shared between collective hand claps, Halima’s tbal (a hand drum), and the keyboard’s drum programs.
As a youth, Baamar listened to cassettes of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix imported from Spain. His first experiences as a professional musician were playing at local parties coincided with Mauritania’s occupation of Dakhla. You can hear both Western rock influence and Mauritanian rhythms in his music, which he’s been performing and marketing on cassette for over a quarter century throughout the Western Sahara region. Doueh plays electric guitar and an instrument called the tinidit (or tidinit), a Moorish four-stringed lute; according to an article in Wire, Baamar favors a Fender guitar run through a few pedals. Doueh’s guitar playing has a complex rhythmic underpinning, close to the Master Musicians of Jajouka or flamenco, and adheres to traditional Mauritanian modes.
Record label Sublime Frequencies's Hisham Mayet located Doueh at his cassette dubbing shop, after a search up and down Morocco to find the musician responsible for “Eid For Dakhla,” which became the first track on Group Doueh's Guitar Music from the Western Sahara, their first release with Sublime Frequencies in 2007. Sublime Frequencies had this to say about the album: "If you think you’ve heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world, think again. This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp..."
In spring of 2009 Sublime Frequencies put together a European tour for Group Doueh and labelmate Omar Souleyman, which occasioned the release of Treeg Salaam, Group Doueh's second LP, which translates to "Streets of Peace". Treeg Salaam, like its predecessor, was culled from Doueh’s massive cassette archive. Hisham Mayet selected music for the record that was recorded between 1989-1996, which makes some of the material on the album significantly older than material on the first LP.
As a youth, Baamar listened to cassettes of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix imported from Spain. His first experiences as a professional musician were playing at local parties coincided with Mauritania’s occupation of Dakhla. You can hear both Western rock influence and Mauritanian rhythms in his music, which he’s been performing and marketing on cassette for over a quarter century throughout the Western Sahara region. Doueh plays electric guitar and an instrument called the tinidit (or tidinit), a Moorish four-stringed lute; according to an article in Wire, Baamar favors a Fender guitar run through a few pedals. Doueh’s guitar playing has a complex rhythmic underpinning, close to the Master Musicians of Jajouka or flamenco, and adheres to traditional Mauritanian modes.
Record label Sublime Frequencies's Hisham Mayet located Doueh at his cassette dubbing shop, after a search up and down Morocco to find the musician responsible for “Eid For Dakhla,” which became the first track on Group Doueh's Guitar Music from the Western Sahara, their first release with Sublime Frequencies in 2007. Sublime Frequencies had this to say about the album: "If you think you’ve heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world, think again. This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp..."
In spring of 2009 Sublime Frequencies put together a European tour for Group Doueh and labelmate Omar Souleyman, which occasioned the release of Treeg Salaam, Group Doueh's second LP, which translates to "Streets of Peace". Treeg Salaam, like its predecessor, was culled from Doueh’s massive cassette archive. Hisham Mayet selected music for the record that was recorded between 1989-1996, which makes some of the material on the album significantly older than material on the first LP.
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@PetraKann
How did I miss these musicians? I was commenting on another YT channel about Jimmy Page and a random comment was sent to me with two words "Mdou Moctar"
Initially I thought to myself "Did I offend someone in here?"
A quick search and this video emerged - superb🙂
Translations of lyrics into English:
"Love is sweet but take care It's difficult to maintain It demands much respect and lots of patience
There is a false love and it is always accompanied by a lie and it will end in treason There is a true love and it is always accompanied with respect and pity"
@fredsetser7222
This is what the internet is supposed to do. Bring this amazing music to a 60 yr old in the Midwest. Now just to get Mdou to come to St. Louis. Thank you KEXP
@digvijaysharma7307
Haha.. true and to bring this amazing piece here to a 23 year old too in India
@fonsalvarado
Amazing comment
@Mastertexter
you just gotta love how music connects people all around the world, and they come together... why can't humanity always be like that? I'd hate us less...
@juliannaking4473
This 59 old from 2 hrs away from St.Louis loves it too. ;lol
@davidskog
38 year old swede likes it a lot!
@tomhussey5142
Theres something about being a guitarist and not being able to predict the next note hes gonna play that makes me grateful beyond words for this
@TheExtremeCube
I understand what you mean, I love music that just shatters my expectations and preconceptions in a good way, like wow, things can be done this way as well
@cityslacker6221
agree 100%. The first week I heard Mdou I felt like I entered a new timeline. I've been listening to him and Bombino and Tinariwen this past year because I haven't felt this inspired to hear something so completely new and unpredictable to my jaded guitarist ears. I'm 50 and haven't been so pleased to hear something this new since the post punk new wave in the late 70's and early 80's.
@weldmaghreb
That's because their music is based on heritage from arabic/islamic music modes and African sub saharan rhythms, which both are big on improvisation and giving space for the soloist to be creative beyo beyond the written notes ..so the harmony follow a more flexible and an unpredictable logic to it .. and that's why the closest thing in western music to this is Blues, Jazz or Soul , specifically James Brown , where string instruments would play rythmes and break some conventional rules, or play between the standard tones ... applying western and contemporary instruments to eastern music modes becomes like a recipe to marvelous music