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AZZDDINE with Bill Laswell „Massafat“ Barbarity 023 Nearly all Barraka releases have been developed out of direct relations around the big family of Aisha Kandisha`s Jarring Effects or out of accidently acquaintances in the Moroccan musician/studio scene. Only a very few albums have been released by the „classical“ A&R-way of an incoming demo or pre-production (Baroudi, Maniacs/Sharkiat, Hypnotix). The same approach was the beginning of a long working period, leading to the album „Massafat“ (interval). One day, a noisy, dirty and unlistenable tape recording from a live show in Rabat, was among the many demos . But even if the soundquality of the recording was maybe the worst we ever recieved, there was a from far distinguishable beauty and dynamic in its music. This tape came from Azzddine Ouhnine, an Oud player and composer, blind since his childhood, coming straight out of Rabat, the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco. After We had to realise an album together for Barraka Pro...