Moshi

Barney Wilen · 1972 · Title track of the album recorded in 1972 at Saravah studio, released in 1973.

Context

Title track of Barney Wilen's album released on Saravah in 1972, the product of a nearly two-year journey through Africa begun in 1970 with musicians and filmmakers. The record mixes field recordings and collective playing, between jazz, free, and psychedelic rock; "moshi" refers, among the Fulani of Niger, to a demon invoked to drive away anguish. Now rare, the album was reissued by Souffle Continu in 2017.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to French jazz, Free jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.

Sources

• blogthehum.com
• rushhour.nl

Jazzency text written from these pages. Method and licenses