Azzddine

Azzddine is Azzddine Ouhnine, a Moroccan oud player and composer based in Rabat. He released his first album - Massafat - in 2004. On Massafat, Ouhnine's vocals, oud, and darbukka were combined with contributions by about a dozen other musicians on violins, keyboards, background singing, programming, and drums. The most noted of the additional players was bassist Bill Laswell, who contributed bass to eight of the 14 tracks, although he was initially asked just to play on one or two of the selections.

The final product combines traditional Moroccan music with aspects of electronic dance music, rap, and dub reggae.