365 Days of Live Music: Nadia

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April 10th - Day 357

This is Nadia singing the first of two Algerian folk songs. The song, about three mountains, told the tale of how the three tribes of Algeria were formed. Nadia punctuated each line with an unusual two-noted kind of soft yelp, pitched slightly higher than the rest of the song. I'd heard it before earlier in the year, but can't remember where. Nadia told me the sound replicates the echo around the mountains.

April 18th - Day 365

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Day 365 shindig at The Old Nun's Head, the pub where I started on April 19th last year. Now, as then, two guys (not the same ones though) were playing jazz in the corner of the pub. We comandeered upstairs...

In the photograph above is Datsun strumming his ukulele-banjo, soon to be joined by the newly formed "Rolling Bricks" (left to right Bashy, Shouty, Penguin, Hat, Dancey and William)...