{"id":42427,"date":"2018-04-04T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ammar-808-when-deep-tr-808-bass-meets-ancient-north-african-music\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:48","slug":"ammar-808-when-deep-tr-808-bass-meets-ancient-north-african-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ammar-808-when-deep-tr-808-bass-meets-ancient-north-african-music\/","title":{"rendered":"AMMAR 808: when deep TR-808 bass meets ancient North African Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12931 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg-1010x721.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AMMAR-808-photo-by-Sia-Rosenberg-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Bargou 08&#8242; sonic mastermind announces his debut album on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/glitterbeat-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glitterbeat Records<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Update:\u00a0listen to the album <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Maghreb_United\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMMAR 808 is a member of Tunisian funky folk music band Bargou 08. The musician will release in June his first solo project, featuring the singers Mehdi Nassouli (Morocco), Sofiane Saidi (Algeria) and Cheb Hassen Tej (Tunisia). Titled &#8220;Maghreb United&#8221;, the album offer an electronic version of ancient North African Music. Watch first single &#8220;Boganga &amp; Sandia&#8221;&#8216;s music video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-EQqrtdUk7s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past is a collective heritage\u201d explains\u00a0AMMAR\u00a0808. He started the project a year ago, after working with the lauded Bargou\u00a008, searching for something to link the sense of what has been with what will be. \u201cIt\u2019s what we all call on, what we all share&#8230;\u00a0I\u2019m trying to weave threads from folklore and mythology into futurism. And I\u2019m not necessarily projecting a positive image; from all we can see, things aren\u2019t going in the right direction. What I hope is that it will raise an alarm.\u201d\u00a0Yet there\u2019s also plenty of hope here. With singers from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, songs from the Targ, Gnawa, and Ra\u00ef histories, and a TR-808 alongside a distorted gumbri (Nassouli), gasba flute and zokra bagpipes (Lassaed Bougalmi), this is an album that reaches out to encompass the entire Maghreb area of North Africa. &#8220;The album isn\u2019t so much about a united Maghrebi region, but how we can connect while observing our differences \u2013 our differences are also our connection\u00a0\u2013 and using them to unify as humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMMAR\u00a0808 will tour in Europe starting from April, including festivals such as Roskilde, BRDCST, Rewire and\u00a0Nuits Sonores.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Read next:\u00a0<\/em><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/glitterbeat-origins-and-philosophy-of-a-versatile-label\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glitterbeat: Origins and philosophy of a versatile label<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12935\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ammar-808-Maghreb-United-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bargou 08&#8242; sonic mastermind announces his debut album on Glitterbeat Records. Update:\u00a0listen to the album here. AMMAR 808 is a member of Tunisian funky folk music band Bargou 08. The musician will release in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4342,5325],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}