Lili Boniche – Boniche Dub
Dub master Bill Laswell meets the pan-Andalusian-Arab guitar musician/singer Lili Boniche. The story goes that Boniche was nearly retired after a successful career performing throughout France in the 1940s before Laswell discovered him at a Paris café at age 78. Released on French fashion label APC, Boniche Dub would amazingly launch a second career for the Algerian artist. Much like his classic Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub), Laswell pulls out the almost completely leaving the Darbuka percussion, drums, guitar, and mandolin swirling in and out around his trancelike bass grooves. Ambient synthscapes are also lightly sprinkled in adding an extra layer of psychedelia and otherworldliness to the already unique confluence of musical genres.
Recommended – Full Listen
A1 Alger Alger Dub
A2 Amir Leghram Dub
A3 Mezelt Ma Jêtch Dub
B1 Yakhalbi Khali L’Häl Dub
B2 Saadi Rite Elbarrah Dub
Artwork – Rik Bas Backer
Bass – Bill Laswell, Gregoire Garrigues
Drums – Mardoche Maimaran
Engineer – Jean-Pierre Sluys, Robert Musso
Goblet Drum [Darbuka] – Armand Suissa
Guitar – Lili Boniche
Mandolin – Hakim Hamadouche
Piano – Maurice El Medioni
Producer – Bill Laswell, Jean Touitou
Synthesizer, Drum Programming – Bill Laswell
Violin – Maurice Sellem