This morning I had a small recording session at my home with Maryana Golovchenko.
She sang a beautiful traditional entitled "Oj, Na Gori Suhyj Dub" (A dry oak on the mountain).
I added some synth and just finished the mix. It sounds dreamy .. a bit like a little meditation.
You can listen here
It's funny when I told her I just returned from Biała Woda, we realized I was not really that far from where this tune actually comes from, which is a place in the area of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains..
Note: this song was extended with a beautiful cello melody by Maarten Vos in November during the preparations for HOME, a dance performance by Conny Janssen Danst. "Oj, Na Gori Suhyj Dub" is now available on CD at the performances of HOME.
Maryana and I recorded together before, our first recording was for Jump Cuts, a track called Field Trip:
EARBALL MEDIA:
Spare and haunting, the music of Ali Bahia El Idrisi's native Morocco comes shining through on this tasty CD, along with much more. His arrangements incorporate traditional instruments like oud, ney, darbouka and shakers right alongside fretless bass and and sampled loops. The effect is rhythmic, haunting, and engaging, with passionate vocals. "Gelfou Alfou Hadami" gets its groove from bass and organ, sounding like chillout Rai or the Nubian groovitude of Ali Hassan Kuban. The title track is similarly chillin' - but by the time you reach "Dodovoiz" the electronica is turned up a notch for an enjoyable though far less organic result, one that sounds like jazzy ethnolounge as much as North African music. "Red Planet" is an alien soundscape of heavy beat and minor-key organ, sounding like a slow, foreign power-rock ballad. The CD includes clear artist credits, including the deft work of Michel Banabila on sampler and many other tools, but sadly no song notes or translations. A great, exploratory album by an artist worth watching. (Scott Allan Stevens)
Steamin' Songs Publishing.
Released June 1, 2000.
Vocals: Ali Bahia El Idrissi.
Keys, sampler, melodica, percussion, fx, guitar: Michel Banabila.
Acoustic guitar, wahwah guitar, electric guitar: Piet Legerstee.
Oud, ney flute, saz, additional recordings: Yaşar Saka.
Wahwah guitar, fretless ebow guitar: Edu Calicher.
Sentir & cracces: Mohamed Benchackchack.
Fretless ebow guitar: Erkan Oğur.
Fretless bass: Michel van Schie.
Fretless bass: Remko Deyl.
Rawanhatta: Marco Broers.
Flutes: Jacobus Derwort.
Backing vocals: Tagmet.
Bendir: Khalid Zirar.
Boudisque Recording / Steamin' Songs.
Recorded & produced at home by Michel Banabila.
Thanks for contributed additional bass clarinet sample by Frank van der Kooij.
I played in East Meets West from 1990 until 1992.
Produced by Robert Musso.
Assistent engineer: Willem Cramer.
Photography and artwork by Eelco Maan.
Recorded at the Markant Studio, Heeze, Netherlands.
Mixed at 39th Street Studios, New York, USA.
Thanks to Nick Thompson playing violin on Hoy Babo Hoy, Yogi Gilles for playing djembe on track 1/3/5/6/8 and to Hans Hoeksema for playing djembe on track 1/5/6. 1991 ℗ Silenz Records / DoReMi
Thanks to Jurgen Brouwer and Fijko van Leeuwen for helping us with all the preperations to make this record. Thanks to Arthur Anemaat for never complaining and to Asad Oberoi for inspiration.
East Meets West performed on many festivals beginning 90's in The Netherlands and Belgium, and also appeared at The Womad Festival, Reading, UK, 1992.
Additional musicians live : Joke Hamminga (percussion), Derk Groen (guitar), Coen Aelbers (percussion), Daniel Bloem (percussion), Bruno van Klaveren, and Gerald Olieberg (bass).
CD, vinyl LP and 7" vinyl releases: Discogs.
released September 1, 1991.
TANAR ÇATALPINAR:
Leadvocals on all tracks / sopranosax on track 1/3/4/5/6 - cymbals, davul and mey on track 5 - darbuka on track 7/9 - ud on track 7/12 - bluesharp on track 11.
OSCAR P. SWAMP:
64 Fender Jazzmaster on track 1/2/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12 - 12-string acoustic on track 3/11 - 6-string acoustic on track 2 - 6-string acoustic slide on track 8 - spanish guitar on track 1 - bass guitar on track 2 - backin' vocals on track 2/6/10 - bluesharp on track 1 - traditional washboard on track 6 - cymbal on track 2.
MICHEL BANABILA:
Keyboardbass on track 1/3/5/6/7/8/10/11/12 - backin' vocals on track 7/12 - reverse piano on track 10 - melodica on track 3 - keyboardstrings on track 9 - distortion-solo on track 9 - flangingdrone on track 5 - synthesizer-solo and percussion on track 12 - 'silly cow' on track 6/12 - organ on track 2.
ALEX EIND:
Tradtional low drums - doun-doun and goume on all track - hi-hat and snare drum on track 1/6/10 - echoes spacemetals on track 12 - backin' vocals on track 1/6/10
WILLEM CRAMER:
Keyboards on track 3/4/5/6/7/8/10/11/12 - computerprogramming on track 1/2/5/6/7/8/10/11/12 - organ on track 1 - cymbals, timbales and tambourin on track 1 - snare drum on track 2/7/8 - acoustic guitar and vocal on track 7 - big box percussion (basedrum) on track 5 - keyboardbass, toms, chimes and desertwind choir on track 9
