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Algiers


There are at least three artists which use the Algiers name: 1. Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B. Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees. Holed up in our perches in London, New York, and a small town in France, plague up to our necks, we conjure the dead sound to life. The click clack of the keyboard brings us to worship. The shrieks of slaves and rebels pummeling through. Our tongues, twisted in the service of Paul Robeson, Lee Moses, Selda Bağcan, et al, slur a call in the darkness. Algiers is the experimental gospel noise soul pulp response, slurping Francophilia - Gainsbourg and Dutronc, Saint Just and Fanon, Badiou and Baudrillard - Black Power - Nina Simone, Public Enemy, James Baldwin, Fred Hampton, DJ Premier, and Fela Kuti - and Southern Gothic - William Faulkner, Nick Cave, and Flannery O’Connor - into a stew thicker than bourguignon in the Algerian sun. Algiers is: Franklin James Fisher - vocals, backing vocals, guitar, bass, cello, double bass, piano, keys, sampling, wurlitzer, tambourine, percussion, drum programming Ryan Mahan - bass, synths, baritone guitar, guitar, backing vocals, drum programming, samples Lee Tesche - guitar, prepared guitar, prepared piano, sax, harmonium, synth, music box, tape loops, electric cymbal, backing vocals Matt Tong - drums, guitar, glockenspiel, drones, chimes, backing vocals http...

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