Electric Jalaba comprises six accomplished musicians with an empathy that feels telepathic and a groove that immerses. In Arabic, the mother tongue of Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo Lagnawi, a leading practitioner of Gnawa music in Britain, they call this indefinable quality, “El Hal” – “The feeling”. “It’s the feeling that comes when we’re playing and totally forgetting where we are,” says producer and bassist Olly Keen. “The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove.”
Daimla from the album ‘El Hal / The Feeling’ is out now. Listen/buy:
Shot and directed by Patrick Bodenham
Produced by Oliver Keen
Treatment by Shunaji
Filmed at The Premises Studios
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