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Moroccan Sheepherders
12+ albums
USArock
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The music of the Moroccan Sheepherders is difficult to categorize. It is a thick, heady, melange of genres ranging from tribal ambient trance to hard-core blue-eyed blues-rock. The overarching foundation of the band’s sound is dual percussion of Craig and Kyle who together draw on, African, Latin, and traditional rock influences to create a hard-driving rhythmic landscape. It’s a landscape of desert sands, forgotten savannas and thick dark jungles both real and imagined. The beats they craft come straight from the deep core and ancient past of our ancestors and given such origins are irresistible. The most jaded of us are moved into motion by these primal percussive forces. Steve, lead guitarist, creates a melodic structure, which is influenced by many guitar greats past and present but forges a sound, which is both familiar and distinct. This sound varies between thick oscillating ambient sheets of notes, which wash over the listener like ocean waves, to a alien, underwater, psychedelic, solo voice, which convinces us clearly that were not in Kansas anymore. No, far from it. The bass guitar of Scott bridges the percussion and melodic structure. At times acting as attractive force keeping the music together and other times expanding the mix with furious improvisation Burton acts as the connective tissue of this power quartet’s sound. Often muted but ever present, the bass emerges in shining moments as hard-core funk, grungy blue walks, and angular jazz riffs. The band’s pri
