The nocturnal wanderings of psych-electro-oriental music
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To climb into Taxi Kebab is to take the night road, disoriented, towards a horizon where raw electronic music, psychedelic rock and North African heritage meet, including the aita, the rural Moroccan lament sung by the chikhates. Romain Henry’s synthesizers, drum machines, modulating guitars and amplified buzuq serve as co-pilots for Leila Jiqqir’s poetry in Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect. An electro-oriental race through a world on fire, an emotional dance that rises from the ashes…