[OUT NOW] GROUP DOUEH GUITAR MUSIC FROM THE WESTERN SAHARA LP (SUBLIME FREQUENCIES)

Subway sound from the Western Sahara: Sublime Frequencies anthrodiscographers tape local street life and radio in about-to-pop hotspots like Iran and North Korea. On this expedition to the “disputed territory” south of Morocco, they found Baamar Salmou, who uses the name Group Doueh for quick-and-prickly electric guitar that forces a Hendrix reference just on personality alone. Doueh has listened to a lot (James Brown mentioned by name in the liners), but he took it as instructions, not rules. “Tirara” wiggles around John Cale’s best-loved drone, and “Cheyla Ya Haiuune” is an auld-lang sad song—Ike Turner and Steve Cropper vying for gals at last call. And those are the easy ones. This isn’t the next Cambodian Rocks—it isn’t the next anything, and I haven’t been able to say that for a while. (CZ)