Habibi Funk’s Musical Revivals

 
“In a small shop in Casablanca in 2013, Jannis Stürtz dropped a needle on a vintage vinyl recording of Fadoul, one of Morocco’s most-popular musicians of the 1970s. What he heard next was ‘a mighty voice and a raw sound’ that Stürtz, a Berlin-based DJ and music producer, found ‘enormously inspiring.’ The ‘energetic performance and very lively atmosphere preserved in the recording tugged at me,’ he says. He heard clear links in it to alternative music scenes in Germany and the West. ‘When I listened to Fadoul’s album Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag, I found he was blending rock and funk’ in a style both Moroccan and inspired by James Brown, America’s ‘Godfather of Soul.’ The experience led Stürtz, now 36, to the founding of his second recording label. In 2000 he and a friend had turned their fascination with vinyl and African and Asian funk into Jakarta Records. ...”

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