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Cheb i Sabbah: Devotion
by Chris M. Slawecki
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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by Chris May
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 ...
read moreCheb i Sabbah Announces New Album: OptiMystiK
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Press Junkie PR
Cheb i Sabbah Announces Fundraising Campaign to Help Produce New Album: OptiMystiK Cheb i Sabbah, musical adventurer, global spiritualist and producer extraordinaire is calling out to his fans and supporters to help in the production of his eighth album, OptiMystiK, his most ambitious project to date. The album will combine languages and musical cultures of twelve different countries and is loosely described by Sabbah as “New World DJ Science.” Known as one of the most creative artists in global electronica, ...
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Cheb I Sabbah Releases New Album "Devotion" on Six Degrees Records
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All About Jazz
Cheb i Sabbah, musical adventurer, global spiritualist and producer extraordinaire has returned to the Indian subcontinent for Devotion, his seventh album on Six Degrees Records. Hundreds of artists in the world music genre, or for that matter any genre, have come and gone like bottle rockets, but Cheb i Sabbah's light keeps burning and it is his bhakti (devotion) to the spiritual essence of music, and to truth and humanity, that is responsible for his longevity.
Devotion was produced in ...
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