Electric Jalaba

Electric Jalaba brings together members of Soundspecies live band and Moroccan musician, Simo Lagnawi.

Their collaboration combines Simo's mesmerising Gnawa music with Soundspecies' powerful psychedelic dancefloor-shaking tracks, influenced by jazz, techno, funk, psychedelic rock and desert blues. It’s an original and uncontrived fusion of musical influences.

Soundspecies' 2011 release, Bamana Project, featured compositions inspired by Malian bass and guitar riffs picked up by producer Oliver Keen during his travels in West Africa. It was while touring in support of the album that they met Simo, a singer, dancer and the leading UK player of the Guembri – a traditional lute-like stringed instrument made from camel skin.

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