catalogue

ABDOU EL OMARI

LOST TAPE - 1980 (BORN BAD)

ABDOU EL OMARI - LOST TAPE - 1980 175057
format:
1 LP
release:
13.03.2026
label:
BORN BAD
genre:
World
item ID:
175057
barcode:
3516628505713
Very little is known about the man itself - a veil of mystery still surrounds the artist life, only deepening the fascination.

His name remains discreet, but his music continues to travel. It seems to drift from another time, another world, or perhaps from a dream shared between the blue nights of Casablanca and the silent dunes of the Sahara.

In the 1970s, as Morocco was transforming, Abdou El Omari shaped a sound of his own - a visionary blend of spiritual jazz, psychedelic funk, Moroccan traditions, and early electronic experimentation.

Today, his work is resurfacing, rediscovered by a new generation of listeners in search of lost horizons.

His only solo album from 1976, Nuits d'été, became a cult classic 40 years later. This unearthed lost record stands among its rarest and most precious secrets.

Here, El Omari sounds bolder than ever, exploring territories where pop, cosmic disco, electric blues, and Moroccan tradition merge without boundaries.

Armed with his ARP Odyssey synthesizer, hypnotic grooves, and the celestial layers of his Farfisa, he expanded the dialogue between deep roots and electronic exploration.

The funk drums patterns and the Moroccan ternary 6/8 rhythms intertwine in a unique psychedelic trance - a music that seems to emerge from a parallel Morocco, half dream, half memory.

This album is the continuation of a vision - a music of the Moroccan future: rooted, but reaching for the unknown.

Colorful, magnetic and timeless, here is music for dancing as much as for dreaming. If Nuits d'été was the dawn, this rediscovered work is the culmination - an invitation to journey through the singular universe of Abdou El Omari.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. ALI OU HAYANI
  • 1.2. ANA SAHRAOUI
  • 1.3. NIHAYAT HOB
  • 1.4. ANGHAM CHAABIA
  • 1.5. DIKRAYAT
  • 1.6. ALACH YAYOUNI
  • 1.7. LAYALI FASS
  • 1.8. LOBNA
  • 1.9. TANGER L'ÉTÉ
  • 1.10. TAKSIM ABDOU
  • 1.11. HANAN
  • 1.12. INTERLUDE