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Maghreb Lyon 1972 – 1998 Frémeaux & Associes FA5452


Maghreb Lyon is a lovingly compiled testa- ment to the rich music of France’s North African immigrant communities from the ’70s all the way through to the late ’90s. The cura- tors of this three-disc collection have focused in particular on Lyon, as opposed to better- known centres for French music like Paris and Marseilles.


Lyon’s Place du Pont, a longstanding home for numerous immigrant communities, was a hub for the diverse sounds of the Maghreb and each of those styles, from Raï to Chaoui, Staifi to Chaâbi, Kabyle to Malouf, are here represented.


The three discs are grouped thematically – each examining a different aspect of the immigrant experience. From social and politi- cal struggles to the everyday dramas of friendship, family and work – the songs, though sometimes shoddily recorded or fea- turing ill-advised forays into the experimen- tal fringes of electronica, pack a good deal of emotion throughout.


They also tell a story about the fabric of


French society. Each disc spans the whole time period concerned and the variation in style between earlier songs and more recent ones is often stark. For those enthusiastic about the music of the Maghreb this compilation will be an excellent addition to any collection. For the uninitiated also, the collection is a fas- cinating insight into a musical heritage and a moment in time, and well worth a listen.


www.fremeaux.com/ Liam Thompson


DEXTER JOHNSON & LE SUPER STAR DE DAKAR Live A l’Etoile Terangabeat PTBCD 019


First point – Super Star de Dakar is not Super Étoile but a rival band, famed for their phe- nomenal Nigerian sax player Dexter Johnson. Popular in their day, they left little recorded evidence of their passing but here, recorded in 1969, is a supposedly live club perfor- mance, though we hear no evidence of an audience until track ten. However we do hear a lot of Dexter Johnson’s honeyed tenor sax. He is the star and hero and head and shoul- ders above all around him: the bare-bones drum and bass, the carelessly-tuned guitars, the over-nasal singers trying to sound like Cubans, singing in mock Spanish and mock Portuguese. There’s mock English too in a leaden assault on Wilson Pickett’s Something You Got. Things pick up with Soy El Rey Del Boogaloo – a bit of zip and spark at last. But there’s a lot to sit through first. Johnson, however, exults on a plane of his own.


www.terangabeat.com Rick Sanders


HABADEKUK Kaffepunch Go` Danish Folk Music GO0714


Habadekuk have established themselves as the folk big-band in Denmark. With plenty of brass oomph to accompany leader Kristian Bugge’s fiddle and a rhythm section that could power a cruise liner, they roar through a selection of traditional tunes from the regions of Denmark, including two (Dwight Iamps Valse, Dwights Schottish) that only recently made it back to the country after being carried by emigrants to America. While they set out their stall from the start, roaring through the intricate arrangement of Galop Kontra, they’ve definitely grown a lot, as Otte Mands Dance shows, with its airy Nordic


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