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8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. So far Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcription of his name to Latin letters differs)& his music had not been rediscovered, as a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the from them. Vinyl and CD edition come with liner notes, unseen live photos and lyrics translations. InchThere was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by a band called InchFadaul et les PrivilegesInch and mentioned James Brown in the writing credits of the song InchSid RedadInch on the a-side. Needless to say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was blown away. A cover of James Brown's InchPapa got a brand new bagInch sung in Arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It's hard to describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists, even Google didn't help. A true gem forgotten about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw sound aesthetic of InchSid RedadInch. Energetic performances, a mighty voice and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings. Inch InchSid RedadInch has gotten plays on BBC, Radio Nova and more, our Habibi Funk mixes have been featured by The Gua
