The DeFacto Brothers - Assawt

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The DeFacto Brothers are thrilled to be able to contribute a track in solidarity to the cause and continuation of the North African band Tinariwen.

The song that the DeFacto's chose is "Assawt," from the band's 2017 album “Elwan.” The name of the song means "The Voice," and its message - as heard in the DeFacto's spoken-word translation of the song's lyric - is a defiant call for support for those who fight for women's rights in the face of persecution by radical Islamic factions.

The DeFacto’s interpretation remains true to the feel and basic arrangement of the original recording. The hypnotic vocal lines have been instrumentally rendered, and the solo has been given to saxophone, which plays in a Middle Eastern mode. Sharp ears will also pick on the DeFacto's musical nods to such Western musical icons as Santana and Jimi Hendrix, thus extending the East meets West intent of the Brothers' interpretation.

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from Tinariwen | Winston​-​Salem, track released September 11, 2019
The eight familial musicians that make up the DeFacto Brothers have chosen to reveal little about their past, calling their assemblage "just like the Partridge Family, but spelled different." They are all veteran players and, despite shared DNA, hail from New York, Nashville, Miami, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Forsyth County, NC.

The track was engineered and recorded at Old House Studio in Charlotte, N.C., by Chris Garges, and was mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering in North Scituate, R.I. It was produced by Team Tintinnabulation, a trio of producers that describe their singular production style as "a bombination sonic conflagration."

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