{"product_id":"noori-his-dorpa-band-beja-power-electric-soul-brass-from-sudans-red-sea-coast","title":"Noori \u0026 His Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul \u0026 Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\" Vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: OSTLP012\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 827565062904\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 24 Jun 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Afro Soul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01: Saagama - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003cbr\u003e02: Qwal - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003cbr\u003e03: Al Amal - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003cbr\u003e04: Jabana - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003cbr\u003e05: Wondeeb - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003cbr\u003e06: Daleb - Noori \u0026amp; His Dorpa Band\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA soundtrack of Sudan's revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeja Power! is a living archive of the finest, most heartfelt Beja songs—a six-track portal to another time and place, of melodies long forgotten and never before interpreted by an electric and brass-driven ensemble. Few older Beja recordings were produced. Even fewer, if any, remain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElectric soul, blues, jazz, rock, surf, even hints of country, speak fluently to styles and chords that could be Tuareg, Ethiopian, Peruvian or Thai—all grounded by hypnotic Sudanese grooves, Naji's impeccable, airy tenor sax, and of course, Noori's tambo-guitar, a self-made unique hybrid of an electric guitar and an electric tambour, a four-string instrument found across East Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA truly ancient community, Beja trace their ancestry back millennia. Some say they are among the living descendants of Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush. They are even depicted in the hieroglyphics. Beja melodies—nostalgic, hopeful and sweet, ambiguous and honest—are thousands of years old. Yet their sounds are also reminiscent of Dick Dale's 1963 \"Misirlou\" and jazz great Charlie Rouse's 1968 \"Meci Bon Dieu\". This album could be 6,000 years, 60 years, or 6 months old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with his Dorpa Band, formed in 2006, Noori's instrumental Beja music forms the latest link in an unbroken chain of an inherited, arresting sound that is local as it is global, a gift of a storied past and the exchanges of the well-traveled Red Sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOstinato Records is honored to bring the nearly forgotten Beja sound in all its nostalgia, sweetness, honesty, and power, recorded and mastered to maintain the warmth of Sudan's signature aesthetic, to your sound system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e180g heavyweight vinyl with a 10\" x 10\" insert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tambo guitar fire from the Red Coast.”\u003cbr\u003e— UNCUT Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sudan band's music empowers sidelined ethnic group.”\u003cbr\u003e— AFP \/ France 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Musically, the album is a richly mellow experience, with breezy saxophones that bring to mind Mulatu Astatke, snaky guitar\/tambo-guitar solos and hypnotic rhythms.””\u003cbr\u003e— Record Crates Untied\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e““A rippling current of hand formed poly-rhythms, bumping bass anchorage and sax player Naji’s scorching horn lines all braid tightly with Noori’s fluent fretwork to create a distinctive Dorpa Band sound.””\u003cbr\u003e— Backseat Mafia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e““Noori and his band have offered us music of great emotional magic. 10\/10”\u003cbr\u003e— Truth \u0026amp; Lies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These longform, mesmerizing tracks keep you locked in from beginning to end.”\u003cbr\u003e— Bandcamp Album of the Day\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ostinato Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41715855491228,"sku":"OSTLP012","price":18.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_822548fc-ac3c-46c7-98c1-d5e7eb8e6b8a.jpg?v=1656162881","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/noori-his-dorpa-band-beja-power-electric-soul-brass-from-sudans-red-sea-coast","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}