The Maghreban – Connection
140,00 lei
Label: Zoot Records (2) – ZEP014
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Abstract, House
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Ayman Rostom’s second album under The Maghreban alias is another tight, tidy set of jazz-flecked Middle Eastern-skewed house durt, with guest appearances from Abdullah Miniawy, Idris Rahman, Nah Eeto and Omar.
With his life as a UK hip-hop producer (under the monikers Dr. Zygote and Ayman) behind him, Rostom’s existence as a reliable deep house mainstay is in full swing on this bumper sophomore set. He’s been working on it for years, apparently before he started 2018’s R&S-released “01deas”, and the record uses Rostom’s pool of influences – from Middle Eastern music to Detroit techno – to conduct a mood that’s emotional and melancholy. This ain’t party music, but neither does he shy from assembling sounds primed for soundsystems. Slippery mid-tempo bump ‘Got Your Number’ is an early standout, boasting a star making guest appearance from Kenyan rapper Nah Eeto, who rides the gaps between Rostom’s stuttering beat and sparkles with very contemporary East African charm.
Egyptian vocalist and composer Abdullah Miniawy shows up on ‘Anzilli’, and adds his unmistakable tones to Rostom’s schaffel-adjacent beat. But it’s the collaborations with saxophonist Idris Rahman that truly get to center of Rostom’s interests: the producer says he relayed to Rahman that he liked British jazz player Tubby Hayes, and you can hear that in Rahman’s performance as he melts away the boundaries between big band jazz and Eastern scaling. “Connection” is an album that sounds as if it twists and turns into different places with each collaboration, and it highlights Rostom’s wide web of musical interests and allies.
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