{"id":68145,"date":"2020-12-18T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=68145"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:05:24","slug":"electric-jalaba-el-hal-the-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/electric-jalaba-el-hal-the-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Jalaba\u2019s telepathic sound on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On their forthcoming album <em>El Hal \/ The Feeling,<\/em> the British six-piece band explores the sensory effects of Gnawa music. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEl Hal\u201d in Arabic means &#8220;feeling,&#8221; more precisely the feeling that comes when you play music and leads you to forget where you are. Electric Jalaba feels this indefinable sensation when they play Gnawa. Bassist and producer Olly Keen describes it as follows: &#8220;<em>The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove<\/em>.&#8221; This sensation is even stronger for singer and guembri player Simo Lagnawi, for whom Arabic is his native language. Today he is one of the leading practitioners of Gnawa music in Britain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Electric Jalaba - Daimla\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iCpegvb6P54?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> Electric Jalaba &#8211; \u00ab Daimla \u00bb <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This third album marks Electric Jalaba\u2019s great comeback, returning from a five-year absence. More united than ever, the group unspools its magic on nine improvised tracks, its multiple facets combine on a groovy, psychedelic repertoire in Arabic, injecting small doses of the remnants of West African dialects \u2013 Bambara from Mali, Fulani and Hausa from the Sahel region \u2013 in homage to the age-old nomadism of these desert populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the tracks &#8220;Cubaili Ba&#8221; stands out, as well as the Senegalese mbalax rhythms of &#8220;Agia Hausa&#8221; or the two-pronged ode to Allah and the ma\u00e2lem Mahmoud Guinea, from which the title &#8220;Daimla&#8221; is drawn. This sensation that the music gives them is both a form of withdrawal from themselves and a collective attachment that binds them more than ever, like the people of Morocco, but from a London studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>El Hal \/ The Feeling<\/em> will be released on 12 March 2021 via <a href=\"https:\/\/strut.k7store.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">Strut Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Electric Jalaba in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1bdf1e57-a1346777552_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On their forthcoming album El Hal \/ The Feeling, the British six-piece band explores the sensory effects of Gnawa music. \u201cEl Hal\u201d in Arabic means &#8220;feeling,&#8221; more precisely the feeling that comes when you play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[30276,30275],"location":[8230],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,30167,9105,30175,8986,8995,15866,8414,30242,8933,8542,9365,22216,30241,8435,16721,30168,9847,30243,8543],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68145"}],"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=68145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68145"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=68145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}