Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released on 8 December 1967 by Decca Records/ABKCO Records in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by London Records/ABKCO. Its title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires…" text that appears inside a British passport.

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic wrote:

Without a doubt, no Rolling Stones album — and, indeed, very few rock albums from any era — split critical opinion as much as the Rolling Stones' psychedelic outing. Many dismiss the record as sub-Sgt. Pepper posturing; others confess, if only in private, to a fascination with the album's inventive arrangements, which incorporated some African rhythms, Mellotrons, and full orchestration. Never before or since did the Stones take so many chances in the studio. In 1968, the Stones would go back to the basics, and never wander down these paths again, making this all the more of a fascinating anomaly in the group's discography.

Abdel Gadir Salim (velvet-voiced master of swaying Sudanese song and ud player extraordinaire) started to sing and to play music in Dilling, the town in which he was born, in the south of Kordofan. Inspired by the night-time singing of local songs - merdoum, ayjako, senjaq , singing and clapping that you can hear up to 20 miles away on a clear midnight - he realised that he should look to Sudanese roots for melodic and rhythmic motifs to further develop his music.

The group heard on this GlobeStyle recording is a special one caught on a flying visit to the UK for a one-off concert, and features one of the top violinists of Sudan, Mohammed Abdulla M'hamadia.

Eels - Black Session
year: 2000 |mp3 @ 192 kbps | genre: indy-pop | 53 MB

Black Sessions are performances of live music broadcast on the French radio station France Inter. They are recorded in front of a live audience, and feature on the C'est Lenoir show.