IFRIQIYYA ÉLECTRIQUE
A Concert-Road-Movie from the Trans-Aeolian Transmission.
The ultimate ritual of Adorcism. From the deep-heart of Chott el Djerid, desert of Salt, Sahara, Tunisia. No World-Music : just real transe. Nothing fancy, but real, sweaty and absolutely timeless. No Post-Card, no Tourism, no Surrender.
No theatre or stage or audience. The rûwâhîne have been invited to perform in the street and are possessing, contorting, the bodies of the Banga. Teenagers leap to the floor, their legs tense, arch-like, a fixed gaze in their eyes; girls dance wildly, moulding and accelerating the rhythm of the tablas, the cries of the women, though, are not loud enough to drown out the tchektchekas’ implacable metallic sound. Spouts of water rise up, and fall with a heavy slap, while benzoin vapours wrap themselves around our waists. We are far, far away, where “according to the symbolism of the genes deep objectives, along with social causes, are a catharsis, a purification of the soul through ecstasy; this is the form assumed by the mysticism of a minority that has been excluded, oppressed, exiled to Africa’s Islamic societies." (Viviana Pâques, ne L'arbre cosmique dans la pensée populaire et dans la vie quotidienne du nord-ouest africain, Institute for Ethnology, Paris, 1964.)
IFRIQIYYA ÉLECTRIQUE
François R. Cambuzat : guitars, voice, computer
Gianna Greco : bass, voice, computer
Tarek Sultan : vox, tabla, tchektchekas
Yahia Chouchen : vox, tabla, tchektchekas
Youssef Ghazala : vox, tchektchekas
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TRANS-AEOLIAN TRANSMISSION - IFRIQIYYA ÉLECTRIQUE
François R. Cambuzat : videos, field-recordings & composition, guitars, voice, computer
Gianna Greco : videos, field-recordings, bass, voice, computer
Carlo Mazzotta : video-editing
Renaud De Foville : guest camera
Pierpaolo Leo : guest electronics (Stombali-Zuru el Haadi-El Maduulaa-Maaluumaa)
Drone / Dune Records : guest techno (Lavo-Baba Marzug-Sidi Saad-Allah)
Hamadi Bousselmi : logistic and so much more
Amel Fargi : advices
Justin Bradshaw : English translation
Thanks to Sir Hassan Chouchen, Moqqaddem of the Tozeur’s Banga
and to Youssef Ghazala without whom all this it would be lost in the Chott el Djerid.
