Orchestre National de Barbés

Rendez-vous Barbes.

We are pleased to announce the return of "Orchestre National de Barbés", often named as the best band in the Maghreb world. ONB is certainly a band which you have to see live at least ones in your life time!
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What the World Music magazine Songlines says about ONB:

Ecstatic trance fusion from the Parisian suburbs

The opening number, “Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris”, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that the Clash’s Mick Jones would have been proud of, and a simple swinging hip-hop rhythm. It’s not the first time we’ve heard this kind of fusion of rai, rock and hip-hop, but it’s rare to hear the executed with the kind of apparently effortless swagger that only a band with real chemistry can pull off. Then it’s straight into “Chkoun”, a rather more generic Ska number that could have been performed by any of the band from St Ives or St Petersburg. But then “