Ettab - Ettab

Ettab - EttabA descendant of the Hausa (a people from the Sahel) born in Riyadh in 1947, Ettab was a celebrated singer, actress and activist and perhaps the only female artist of Saudi origin of her time to claim an international career. This album, produced in Lebanon in 1992 by brothers Mahmoud and Ahmed Moussa for the label Relax In, is a perfect introduction to her work. Resolutely modern in it's pop arrangements with a finesse worthy of Curtis Mayfield, it

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Re-issue of the 1990 "The Eponym" 2 track demo

which inspired the album's jazz-oriented sound

With guest appearances from Obie Trice

Samantha Fish didn’t come to play nice—she came to howl

the coifed and coked-up bon vivants of greater L

The A side "Midnight Hotline" is an infectious up tempo tune that can keep a dance floor moving with an earworm chorus that you will wake up the next morning singing

Nia Joe (FOX) & on-set dj

it is characterized by its delicate

Besides they have already entered the US Billboard charts in 2011 (#3)

the album's lead-off single

and female furies â€" complemented by contemporary black-metal snarling in "A Romance With The Grave" or the malicious doom swamp of "Mother Nothingness"