Group Doueh - Cheyla Ya Haiuune
It does the heart good to think that somewhere there is always a true guitar original you have yet to hear. That you'll always be able to hear someone doing something that sounds entirely new and unique. One such original is a man called Doueh, and his group is the prosaically named Group Doueh. He's from the disputed territories of Western Sahara and he makes a music that is as hard to pin down as his country.

The predominate local musical form is called Sahwawi, and apparently there's some of that in his playing. There's also some serious funkiness. There's the exploratory meandering of Hendrix. And there's the loose-stringed lo-fi sound that will endear this music to a whole host of alt.rock types. Even for me, the sound here takes second place to the extraordinary music.

Bear in mind that when I say this is lo-fi, I am not kidding. This sounds like a home recording. Yet Doueh and his group are clearly remarkable musicians, playing here music that is at once complex, ecstatic and danceable. Cheyla Ya Haiuune was found on the excellent Audiversity blog, and comes from the 2007 album Guitar Music from the Western Sahara which appears to be already out of print. Revelatory stuff.

Group Doueh - Cheyla Ya Haiuune