"The young Faris (Algerian mother, world-travelling Italian father) was fascinated by Jimi Hendrix's rock blues and then those old country blues guys like Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson. Later, he went on a (...) quest for his maternal roots, learning Tamasheq (...), taken under the Tinariwen wing ... At same point producer Sedryk threw him the idea to make the perfect, natural marriage between both his personal roots. And, by crikey, he's done it! And so Fred McDowell's Jesus Is On The Mainline and When I Lay My Burden Down, Son House's Grinning In Your Face, Muddy Waters' Feel Like Going Home and others get assouf-isised with those gently laid-back camel-rolling rhythms and meandering, dual-tongued lyrics, all the better for there being no fireworks and grandstanding, and the beautiful, simple production being electro-acoustic, stark and honest".
