Bejawiya, by Otaak Band

Bejawiya

by Otaak Band

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1.	Ogna 03:40	buy track
2.	Tehabay 1 03:04	buy track
3.	Daleeb 02:28	buy track
4.	Bebop 1 01:12	buy track
5.	Kwal/W'afirhasa 03:24	buy track
6.	Ifaarsa 03:29	buy track
7.	Terbal 02:46	buy track
8.	Three Years 04:29	buy track
9.	W'annaafi 02:52	buy track
10.	Bebop 2 01:56	buy track
11.	Ogbil 03:01	buy track
12.	Tehabay 2 02:22	buy track
13.	Yhaab Yhaaba 03:07	buy track

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Otaak Band's debut album Bejawiya, featuring an ancient lyre from East Africa, the masankop, played in a variety of styles and arrangements.

Miguel Merino: drumset, hand drums, masankop on tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 13,
semsimeya on tracks 6, 8, 12, guimbri and piano on “Ifaarsa”, background vocals
Ahmed Said Abuamna: voice, masankop on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Andre Segone: acoustic and electric basses
Shams Salem: congas on “Yhaaab Yhaaba,” bongos on “Kwal”
Shapal: keyboard on “Three Years"
Aaron Jakes: saxophone on "Kwal"
Mohamed Adel: electric guitar on “Ogna”
Ali al-Abady: shakers on “Kwal”
Wa’el el-Fashny: doira solo on “Bebop 2”
Sina and Tahani: zaghrouta on “Ifaarsa”

Recorded and Mixed by Alaa el-Kashef at Ultra Studio, Cairo
Mastered by Andre Perriat, La Villa Mastering, Paris
Album design by Kamal Rizk / info@k-artstyle.com

Produced by Miguel Merino

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released April 25, 2012

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Otaak Band Washington, D.C.

Otaak Band plays lyre music. It is the name under which drummer, producer, and lyre player Miguel Merino brings all his explorations and expressions on this ancient instrument to the world.

otaakband.com

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Apr 26

Kunstklinik - Kulturzentrum Eppendorf

Hamburg, Germany

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