5.5 Monday (Global) Nectar & SAMA present Moroccan Psych-Rock: BAB L'BLUZ plus DJ Darek Mazzone (KEXP) $22adv / $25dos 7pm Door 8pm Show 21+ Nectar Lounge 412 N 36th St www.nectarlounge.com BIO Bab L' Bluz (literally "The door of the Blues") is a Franco-Moroccan group created in 2018 in Marrakech following the meeting of the Moroccan singer/guitarist Yousra Mansour and the French guitarist / producer Brice Bottin. Passionate about Gnawa music, they decide to learn together the guembri. It is from this French-Moroccan fusion that a new repertoire of 10 tracks of music will be born. Armed with their electric guembris, Bab L' Bluz resonates a mixture of Gnawa trance rhythms, Hassani songs from southern Morocco and Chaâbi polyrhythms, propelling their music into the magnetic fields of psychedelic rock and volutes of incense. Led by a woman doukkalia, the group wants to carry a revolution of attitude being part of the movement of the Moroccan youth "Nayda", a new wave of artists and committed musicians who are inspired by the local heritage and sing texts of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect, the darija. Very active since its creation, the power quartet travels the globe to distill its hypnotic riffs and spread its mystical and liberating headbanging frenzy to its audience - a true signature of the group. Poetic and powerful, Bab L' Bluz is an expanding universe, a sonic territory that transcends boundaries. In 2020, Bab L' Bluz made a stunning entrance on the music scene with the album Nayda! Mojo Top 10 world Album of the year, Songlines Best albums of 2020, The New York Times, Vogue Arabia, BBC, Le Monde, Financial Time, Pan African Music, Uncut, Radio Nova or Arte Concert... In 2021, Bab L' Bluz won his first Songlines Music Awards and then began a world tour which is still ongoing (Europe, Africa, America, Oceania). After almost constant touring the band released their second album ‘Swaken’ in May 2024, to more critical acclaim. The album’s eleven tracks spark and pulse with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy and takes the listener to a place that shakes us up, to bring us peace.