tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post1792400275361215586..comments2024-03-14T07:17:45.361+00:00Comments on Snap, Crackle & Pop: Archach (again)Mr Tearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245874711568171519noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post-11169606323545963792013-09-29T19:50:11.830+01:002013-09-29T19:50:11.830+01:00hello , magnifique post .. tous ces titres son des...hello , magnifique post .. tous ces titres son des chanson a texte et a thème réelle .. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post-55734455965396061172012-10-25T21:24:13.297+01:002012-10-25T21:24:13.297+01:00Just to comment, on the back of Hammer's fanta...Just to comment, on the back of Hammer's fantastically-helpful post, the cassette cover appears to show only 4 songs as well, just like the LP; so I guess it's the usual African-tape business of the cover & contents not quite matching...!Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post-35573174987133368942012-10-24T21:59:01.928+01:002012-10-24T21:59:01.928+01:00Will surely do, Mr. X. I listened to it lasterday ...Will surely do, Mr. X. I listened to it lasterday and it's wonderful.<br /><br />Update, you say? Well, after I hurriedly posted this comment yesters, I asked around a few Moroccan friends and one attested that the early starts of Archach dates back to 1978 and not 1979. Moreover, some mentioned how Ali Chouhad left the band after a tizzy between him and other band members, but he returned to play with them in the mid-80's.<br /><br />Regardless, this is an amazing cassette, reals. You're the one to be thanked here, and not me.<br /><br />Raise-pact!<br /><br />H.H. Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post-79359054183337146442012-10-24T08:20:40.119+01:002012-10-24T08:20:40.119+01:00Hi Hammer,
Thanks as always for the wealth of info...Hi Hammer,<br />Thanks as always for the wealth of information about this music. I always appreciate the knowledge you share. I'll update the post tonight but in the meantime, enjoy the sounds.<br />X Mr TeareMr Tearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00245874711568171519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041890406822353257.post-56719061562974849602012-10-24T03:58:16.483+01:002012-10-24T03:58:16.483+01:00Hell yeah, this is another amazing Amazigh cassett...Hell yeah, this is another amazing Amazigh cassette by the Soussian retro-revivalist band Archach (ⴰⵔⵛⴰⵛ - أرشاش. The name means 'The Drizzle', literally depicted in a cloud that rains so much on all people in the Soussian dialect).<br /><br />Like many Amazighian bands in the Ahuach region, Morocco; Archach's songs were always carefully chosen from 'darg'/'darja' mawrouth poetry. But, most of their poems were censored by the Moroccan authorities during the rebel-rousing times of the late 70's and early 80's.<br /><br />The group (also spelled as Archache) has at least 34 albums since their first one was issued in mid-1980. The previous year, five ex-members from various Soussian bands gathered together to form Archach: Ali Chouhad, Mohammed Slout (from Ibrkak), L'Hassan Wachach, Ibrahim Isakran (Essafen), and Aziz El-Harras (Tafrawit) and played live at Assouass Square: the place to be at that time for most neo-traditional Soussian bands.<br /><br />Later, they were joined by Chouhad's brother Abed El-Kbir and together they wrote most of the songs. All in all, their roots harked back to the Ibrkak, Essafen district in the Lesser-Atlas region, between Tatta and Troudanout. This region is very rich in Ahuach music (Note: a very mountainous region known for its famous poetry, or 'Inzamen': The Composure), and one of its best poets around (El-Hamou Taleb), wrote so many poems for the band.<br /><br />Musical Extract:<br />Their style is very tribal (to use but a new-ageist word, mind), as it belongs to the tribal Ahuach music style which stresses group dances, and poetical composure, too famous around Souss, El-Houz, and Daraa in the east and known by many names: Ahankhar, Ajmak, Ahmaulou, Eldrassit, Ehuiach, Ahuoari, A'Knawi, Tskiouin, etc. and has numerous substyles, like Ahuach Emmi Ntanout, Essefen, T'louat, Ahuadh Ihahen, Ahuadh Ait B'Oumran, and Takraou/Tamhadhrin (Women-only styles).<br /><br />The dance is called 'E-Rakz', but most of these styles are based on the music and the poems written in an improvisational manner which is a very unique feature in Soussian music. The instrument vary, too: Kanka (African), Aloun, Tknza, Akwal, Nai, and the Banjo.<br /><br />Archach took Soussian music away from the Terroussa (also called, Ruweiss) style played by Moulays (or, master players and singers like El-Rayess El-Hajj Bal'Eid, Bou Bakr Al-Azaari, Bou Bakr Anchad, Saffiyah Oulet Telouat, El-Hussein Janthi, Rayess Omar Wahrouch), into a more modern, fusion-heavy one full of maqams and old, traditional tunes set in new musical moulds.<br /><br /><br />This cassette is an album that they'd recorded circa 1987 and it featured originally only four tracks (not six). Here they are:<br /><br />Teghla Nouffat (تجلا نوفات) (Lost And Found):<br />Side-A:<br />1.) Dekoun, Dekoun.<br />2.) Toughu Tien.<br /><br />Side-B:<br />1.) Teghla Nouffat.<br />2.) Ibakha Yekik.<br /><br />Here's one of the band's earliest pictures, taken in August, 24th, 1982:<br />http://s1147.beta.photobucket.com/user/HythamHammer/media/Archach1982_zps7015ada9.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0<br /><br /><br />H.H.Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com