Jazz Articles about Cheb i Sabbah

About Cheb i Sabbah

Album Review

Devotion uses the human voice for spiritual purposes, looping devotional chants from the Hindu, Sufi Islam and Sikh traditions, sung by leading practitioners of each liturgy, into Sabbah's uniquely synthetic, trippy music. “Trippy" is the keyword because Sabbah's sound collages travel backward and forward through both historical time and geographical space.

The opening “Jai Bhavani," one of two features for Anup Jalota, one of India's premier singers, footprints the template for every ensuing track, an electronic trance landscape ...

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Album Review

Cheb i Sabbah: Devotion

by Chris May
January 23, 2008

This is the seventh album Algerian-born DJ and producer Cheb i Sabbah has produced for world, ambient and beyond label Six Degrees and, like its predecessors Shri Durga (Six Degrees, 1999) and Krishna Lila (Six Degrees, 2002), it takes its inspiration from the music of India. Other Sabbah discs have drawn on African and Arabic source material.

To anyone who doesn't know Sabbah's, or indeed Six Degrees' work, this may suggest that Devotion is but another looming dose ...