Orchestre National De Barbes: Rendez-vous Barbes

Orchestre National De Barbes

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A very welcome return for the ONB with this new album, their fourth overall and first for Le Chant du Monde. Since exploding on to the scene with their debut live album in 1997 no-one has quite matched the ONB for hard rocking rai roots. The Rolling Stones played a track by the band before taking the stage on their 1999 Bridges to Babylon tour. Youssef Boukella and the members of the collective are once again refreshed and raring to go, with an extensive tour that includes a UK date at the WOMAD festival. As anyone who has seen the ONB live in concert will confirm, the multi-ethnic collective are at their best leaping about on stage, their infectious energy spilling over into the crowd and whipping all present into a state of collective frenzy. One thing s for sure and that is that the ONB s innovative mix of Maghrebin, African and Western influences had never been quite so successfully fused before this gregarious bunch came along. • Radio France International

CD

Inne

Le Chant Du Monde

26-07-2010

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