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Ritenour was born January 11, 1952 in Los Angeles, California. He played his first session when he was 16 with the Mamas and the Papas. Nicknamed "Captain Fingers", he (along with Larry Carlton) was a sought-after session guitarist by the mid-1970s. He is noted for playing his red Gibson ES-335 and his Gibson L5 guitars. One of his most notable influences is the pioneering jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. In 1976, he released his first solo album, First Course. This was followed up by his fusion work Captain Fingers in 1976. Since First Course he has released over 30 albums —...

Faris Nourallah is now at his fourth solo album. After “I Love Faris”, “Problematico”, and the last acclaimed “King of Sweden”, the free-floating pop genius from Dallas is back in action with the brand new and exotically entitled "Il suo cuore di transistor" (“Her transistor heart”), this time on the Italian Awful Bliss imprint. As usual Faris is an inexhaustible mine of surprises, and a beacon from where melodies come easily and non-forced. His personal worlds of melody are painted beautifully on "Il suo cuore di transistor". Played, recorded and mixed all by himself in the inner depths of his...

Mohamed Reda is a Moroccan singer born in Fez in 1978. Very young, he was interested in arts, encouraged by his father, an antiques dealer of Fez, and his mother, a fashion designer. He quickly developed a taste for art and music, but sport will be his priority. Morocco champion martial arts class "Contact Light" seems to be delight in this new direction. But he was already playing the lute, guitar and piano, and his love for music quickly take over. Mohamed Reda decides to enter the conservatory from Marrakech to begin his career as musicians. He was noticed for...

Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries. Born into a prominent line of Moorish griot, Noura began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her step-mother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba. Trained in instrumental technique by her grandmother, Mounina, Noura mastered the ardine, a 9-string harp reserved only for women. Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, Noura's father and namesake, sparked her compositional instincts, himself a seminal scholar figure in Mauritanian music; studying Arab classical music in Iraq, devising the first system for Moorish melodic notation, adapting the national anthem, and...