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8 tracks of raw Arabic heavy funk music, none of these have ever been reissued
before. So far Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcribtion of his
name to latin letters differs)& his music had not been rediscovered, as
a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in
the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to
find the artists family to license the release from them.
From the press release:
“There was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by
a band called „Fadaul et les Privileges“ and mentioned James Brown in
the writing credits of the song „Sid Redad“ on the a-side. Needless to
say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was
blown away. A cover of James Brown’s „Papa got a brand new bag“ sung in
arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It’s hard to
describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I
somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk
attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became
obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the
vinyl or the artists, even google didn’t help. A true gem forgotten
about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco
trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being
fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the
fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different
records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw
sound aesthetic of „Sid Redad“. Energetic performances, a mighty voice
and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings.”
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