Habibi Funk 009: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, by The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr

Habibi Funk 009: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

by The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr

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do-it-youssef Marvellous Sudanese jazz-band with a great album !
! شكرا بزاف Choukran bezef !

Jamie Spencer This shit makes me happy Favorite track: Forssa Saeeda فرصة سعيدة.

Seven Daehue Positive vibes all over. Favorite track: Kaif Halo كيف حالو.

The shining example words cannot express how superb this album is,it is massive!!. Favorite track: Kaif Halo كيف حالو.

Mr. Nysom Incredible record! So pleased that this is reissued by a serious label, who pays the artist Well as they deserve. Lots of love!

j s sparrow If your searching for the lost groove, Habibi Funk might just find it for you. Their releases are spot on and this is no different. Grooving from start to finish, The Scorpions &Saif Abu Bakr delivers. Perfect for any soul or funk collector, put this on the turntable and be the envy of the party. Jazz Jazz Jazz is destine to become one of those must have albums.

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1.	Seira Music موسيقي السيرة 02:30	buy track
2.	Shaikan Music موسيقي شيكان 03:51	buy track
3.	Saat Alfarah ساعة الفرح 04:46	buy track
4.	Farrah Galbi Aljadeed فرح قلبي الجديد 05:01	buy track
5.	Kaif Halo كيف حالو 05:46	buy track
6.	Forssa Saeeda فرصة سعيدة 06:55	buy track
7.	Nile Waves 03:59	buy track
8.	Azzah Music موسيقي عزة 03:50	buy track
9.	Bride Of Africa feat (Osman Zeeto ) عروس افريقيا (غناء عثمان زيتو) 03:45	buy track
10.	Hilwa Ya Amoora حلوة يا أمورة 03:23	buy track

about

I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions for the first time maybe 3-4 years ago. Their album “Jazz, Jazz Jazz” ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction; it might have been the first auction for this particular album on the platform. While the bids kept on rising daily up to a staggering 1000$, if I recall correctly, I was intrigued about the snippet preview bits of the music on this album as well as by the impressive artwork. This album happens to be my first conscious connection with Sudanese music. Habibi Funk must have already existed for a year or so but I had not yet come across any recording from Sudan that I felt fitting in the context we set for our self. I remember I did some quick research in the aftermath of the auction (which I obviously did not win) to gather some information about the band but apart from some vague bits and pieces I could not find anything. In most encyclopedic overviews of the Sudanese music scene of the 1970s the band appeared as a mere footnote. How come? I really do not know. To me the music is a unique combination of incredible horn arrangements powerfully performed, a vigorous drummer contributing a funky backbone and Seif's uniting those elements. The results range from instrumental tracks awaking memories of 1970s crime thriller soundtracks to more Sudanese-rooted tracks, a lot of them modernized versions of traditional tribal rhythms and even an excursion into Soukouss. While all of our reissues so far have been compilations in the sense that we put together our favorite selection of tracks by one artist, this album will be our first 1:1 re-release, simply because the quality of the albums does not fall off on a single track. With its eclectic influences it birthed a one-of-a-kind new mixture and serves as a blueprint for what we are looking for when we release music on Habibi Funk.

Fast forward to 2017. We had signed a release by Sharhabeel Ahmed in order to finish the project (Yes, this one is still coming...soon.) I planned my first trip to Sudan. Two Austrian friends of mine had just returned from Khartoum and had met Ali Dokka at one of the few remaining live music venues of the city Baba Costa. Ali performs at this Cafe once a week to this day together with his band the Blue Stars. At some point in the 1970s though he used to be the guitar player for The Scorpions. Sure enough I went to see one of his gigs and he was more than surprised to hear questions concerning this particular band from his musical history but which he had nearly forgotten about. He told us to get in touch with Amir Sax. Amir is one of the bands founding members and was The Scorpions band leader from the early 1970s until they parted ways sometime in the 1980s. Unfortunately Amir was not be found or reached during the last couple days of my stay and again a little time passed before I could gather new knowledge about them.

I went back to Sudan in December of the same year. In the meantime my local colleagues Larissa and Yassir had managed to reach Amir and he was happy to meet. We got together with him in a Cafe right at the Nile in Omdurman, the city right on the other side of the river from Khartoum. It was a happy occasion for everyone. He told us stories about him meeting Jimmy Cliff and Lewis Armstrong when they visited Sudan and how he and his band mates from The Scorpions played extensively in Kuwait, both in club residencies as well as for television. Amir brought tons of incredible photos illustrating not only the bands history but the vivid cultural live in the many music clubs in Khartoum of the 1970s. During this decade up until 1983 the capital was home to a huge number of clubs and concert halls. This scene started to perish after Nimeiry's turn towards the implementation of Sharia law in 1983. During the first decade of his rule he had actively supported various artists of the Jazz scene and was even taking artist like Kamal Keila along with him to trips throughout Africa. The 1989 coup of Bashir and his generals then caused the final blow to a once thriving scene. Both of these political events within 6 years lead to significant drawbacks for the Sudanese jazz scene resulting into hardly no gig opportunities left and parties and concerts being critically observed by the regime. A number of musicians faced prosecution, most of the time for their political views; some left Sudan for good. Music never completely vanished from public life and even the regime kept selected artists close but for a majority of those bands affiliated to the jazz scene life and making ends became a lot harder.

The Scorpions dissolved as a group around the same time. After the end of the band's activity Amir continued to be a full-time musician playing at various occasions. Seif Abu Bakr, the bands singer stayed in Kuwait after the recordings of the album and started pursuing a career outside the music industry although he kept on playing to this day with other bands in Kuwait in his spare time.

I'm writing these introductory words in early August 2018. It is a Sunday and tomorrow The Scorpions will have one of their first rehearsals again. Seif Abu Bakr returned to his home country Sudan from Kuwait few weeks ago and the plan to re-release the music had been an igniting spark as well. Either way, it seems the narration of The Scorpions has not reached its end yet, let us hope this will only be another starting point within the bands long career. A starting point from which onwards they will receive a little more of the attention they have had deserved right from the beginning; both by a new generation of Sudanese as well as by the rest of the world.

Jannis Stuertz
Khartoum, 5th of August 2018.

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released November 9, 2018

نحن في غاية السعادة بالاعلان عن اطلاق تاسع ألبوم لنا وهو الألبوم الوحيد لفرقة العقارب من السودان الذي سجل في الكويت ويشمل المطرب سيف أبو بكر. متحمسين لاتاحة الفرصة للجميع للاستماع الي هذا الألبوم الذي كان حتي الآن متوفرا اما في نسخته الأصلية علي اي-باي بمبالغ عالية (١٠٠٠ دولار) أو نسخ زائفة مسروقة ومحملة علي الانترنت فقط (ونعتبر هذه الممارسات غير مقبولة بتاتا!).
تمزج موسيقي الفرقة - في تشكيلة فريدة من نوعها - بين أصوات الأبواق القوية والطبول كأساس للرتم الفنكي وصوت سيف الذي ينجح في توحيد كل هذه العناصر. التيجة.. ألبوم مكون من أغاني تتنوع ما بين المقطوعات الموسيقية التي تذكرك بموسيقي أفلام الجريمة والتشويق من السبعينات والأغاني الأقرب للموسيقي السودانية التقليدية المتأثرة من المناطق المختلفة في السودان (ونسمع أيضا شيء من السوكوس الكنغولي).
لأول مرة سنطلق البوم كما هو عندما سجلته الفرقة - علي عكس ألبوماتنا السابقة التي شملت أغاني اختارناها من ألبومات مختلفة لنفس الفرقة والسبب في هذا هو قناعنا أن كل أغاني هذا الألبوم علي نفس مستوي الجودة . ولّدت تأثيراتهم االموسيقية صوت فريد من نوعه والذي يعتبر بالنسبة لنا مقياس ومرجع للموسيقي التي نبحث عنها في حبيبي فنك.

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