WATCHA CLAN
Radio Babel

PIR 2543

826863254325
Piranha

 

Among the most interesting formations and follow the new landscape of world music, the Watcha Clan have their new album "Radio Babel" that condenses their Algerian background beautifully with the sounds of the underground and Mediterranean Marseille. The biblical Tower of Babel has never enjoyed a good reputation, but if we consider it as the prototype of a radio antenna that transmitted the different voices and sounds of the various peoples of the world to dance together, then things can change. Having gained a loyal following with their debut album "Diaspora Hi-Fi" and have expanded their musical horizons thanks to a series of remixes that have ensued, the Watcha Clan show a visionary musical eclecticism that ranges between Gnawa trance and drum'n'bass, including Sephardic traditional music and hip-hop, blues and electronics between desert, all peppered with disturbing bass lines and piano in the eastern tradition of Oran in Algeria. In the new "Radio Babel" electronics leaves more room for acoustic instruments: in fact, unlike many musicians of the younger generation, the Watcha Clan really know how to play and use electronics to accentuate the rhythms of trance that animate their songs. The album also offers innovative and effective version of the seventeenth century the Jewish poem "Im Nin 'Alu" already made famous in the international arena by hte Jewish singer Ofra Haza. The CD is enriched by the bonus video of the song "We Are One".