It frightens me how many aggressive and one-sided comments I had to cope with (not only here) about our decision to omit a track from the original album and replace it by another one.We decided to start our label to share rare and good music with other people. I think it's our right indeed to release a partial re-issue if we think a track is musically not good enough to repress.We work with passion and awareness and choose quality above commercialism. In this case here we decided to skip the easy listening track 'Ourika' which was in my opinion originally included to market the album. For us it has no artistic value, so we found it a good opportunity to replace it by the wonderful instrumental track 'Zifaf Filfada', which was originally issued as a b-side for a Naima Samih 45. We like and respect Abdou El Omari's work and I think we did our best to proove that by buying copy rights to release the trilogy. More than the half of the material has never seen daylight before.Some people can't follow us in our decisions or even say they don't want to support the label anymore because we are arrogant in our reactions. We can only say that we are very friendly and understanding people but for us it's not easy to stay calm if people attack you with very subjective and ignorant public comments.We hope that our comment here is fair enough for the people who had their questions.We also hope that somebody will upload the track 'Ourika' soon on streaming services, so that it will be accessible for the community. The track is also still part of Boujema Gam's catalog since we don't own exclusive copy rights for it. Address Disques Gam: Boulevard de Paris 99, Casablanca.

Ignore the haters, you guys are doing a great job! Keep it up!

Love this album and I have just bought it on mail order. I am amazed music like this exists for us to buy in 2017... the combination of the north african rhythms and scales plus primitive organ sounds via the Farfisa combo organ (with wah pedal!) and the mad use of echo makes for a really unique sound. Like others have stated... seems weird to have omitted a track and added another. My guess is that the reissue album was made from a vinyl and not the master tapes. Perhaps the LP they took the copy sound had a damaged track or something.. would be nice to know the answer.

Thanks for taking my comment in the right way, Its a great release!

Thanks! This was helpful!!It frightens me how many aggressive and one-sided comments I had to cope with (not only here) about our decision to omit a track from the original album and replace it by another one.We decided to start our label to share rare and good music with other people. I think it's our right indeed to release a partial re-issue if we think a track is musically not good enough to repress.We work with passion and awareness and choose quality above commercialism. In this case here we decided to skip the easy listening track 'Ourika' which was in my opinion originally included to market the album. For us it has no artistic value, so we found it a good opportunity to replace it by the wonderful instrumental track 'Zifaf Filfada', which was originally issued as a b-side for a Naima Samih 45. We like and respect Abdou El Omari's work and I think we did our best to proove that by buying copy rights to release the trilogy. More than the half of the material has never seen daylight before.Some people can't follow us in our decisions or even say they don't want to support the label anymore because we are arrogant in our reactions. We can only say that we are very friendly and understanding people but for us it's not easy to stay calm if people attack you with very subjective and ignorant public comments.We hope that our comment here was fair enough for the people who had their questions.We also hope that somebody will upload the track 'Ourika' soon on streaming services, so that it will be accessible for the community. The track is also still part of Boujema Gam's catalog since we don't owe exclusive copy rights for it. Address Disques Gam: Boulevard de Paris 99, Casablanca.

According to the discussion below seems like Radio Martiko decided to omit the track because it did not fit with the others. Their prerogative I guess but still would have been interesting to have heard.

The song "Ourika" is missing, but the song " Zifaf Filfada" not appear in the original 1976 issue .

I will never fully understand what is the decision of omitting "Ourika" track from the re-issue and NOT publishing it into NONE of the three releases. It looks like a case of over-exploiting...

So i contacted Fred about this too. He answered me in a respectful manner. I don't agree with the decision to leave off the track. But, I think his effort and the labels has been amazing in getting this recording to the fans. I personally love ourika and all the other tracks. Admittingly, without radio martiko I would have never heard the naimia samah songs. I bought all 3lps on import to u.s.a. I also know I have seated the record to 7 or 8 new fans. I hate vinyl because of portability issues. But I bought all 3. I still pester the label about the track, but it comes from a good place. I do pray that the habibi funk and radio martiko friendship will eventually result in a cd release of all that material from the vinyl and maybe the missing track. I don't think radio martiko is making tons of money. They are working for love of the music. Much respect Pablo r.

wow, that's some really arrogant replies there. just wanted to let you know that your conceited comments made me delete Nuits de Printemps from my order basket.... so many other labels that deserve my money more.

that's cool, I'll be waiting for this release too :-)

One day I will upload 'Ourika' on fb, but I have to find the right artwork :-)Yes, we gonna release greek music in the future. Some psychedelic laika and deep dimotika, maybe other stuff, too.

sorry that I can't comment on this - I don't have the chance that you had... How about this: upload it in your FB page in a poor sound resolution of 64 kbp/s and let all your present and future supporters of your work decide if they miss something special! I don't find it appropriate to continue this debate for much more (although some bird sang to me that you plan some greek "psychedelic" vintage releases...)

that was helpful of you, thanks for getting this clear

of course I like the work you have done so far - I can send you some photos of all three LPs that I bought...

Just now I listened to 'Ourika' once more to be sure if maybe I had missed something.... now I only wonder if you have actually heard the track...

Oh yes, and some time ago I have removed the term 're-issue' from the format description to avoid all misunderstandings about this record being an exact re-issue. I hope that's satisfying for you in one way or the other.

Yes, you have the right to express your opinions on whatever forum you want! You are very right about that and I wish you good luck and lots of fun with it!FYI We are not planning to include the track "Ourika" on any compilation in the future. But anyway, thanks for pointing out what a re-issue exactly stands for. I hope you like the work we've done so far.

it's just facts: a) omitting a track doe automatically makes this a partial re-issue (reissues may add extra tracks, not omitting), b) adding a track out out of nowhere makes things more complicated, c) the "Ourika" track does not appear neither on the second release neither on the third. My guess is that it might show up later in some kind of "forgotten special gems" compilation. I've send you a message on Facebook some months ago - you responded that "Ourika" is somehow not matching the other tracks... OK you got the rights and you can do whatever you want with those recordings but I also have the right of my opinion (especially having bought ALL THREE of your re-issues...)

Very nice comments provoke very nice reactions. What exactly do you mean by "over-exploiting"? And by the way, if you have questions, please send us a personal message. We will always make time to give you a proper answer. It's so much nicer than publishing a very subjective comment like this.

very nice way of answering questions - I'm sure all my friends will enjoy the "re-issue" and perhaps try to be more gentle to me...

If you don't understand, please don't try to understand. If you really miss that particular piece of music in yr collection, there are the original issues up for sale.

Beside the date of release between both pressings (Nov16/Jan17), does anyone could add details (visible, physical) to make the difference between these 2 releases. For info : the second pressing also have : promo insert card and download card.

No physical difference according my reply from the label. The 1st repress pressing however included a promo card in addition to the download card, the 2nd pressing only includes the download card.