While the hotel gig required the band to play sets leaning towards tourist entertainment, the regular work helped put some money into the band’s accounts. They had six month contracts for a couple of years in the early 70s and during that time they would play every single night of the tourist season. In the early 70s the band got a regular gig at a beach hotel called Sahara Beach Resort on the coastline of Tunisia. They were active in the local scene, playing music that was heavily influenced by American soul and funk and at the same time regional musical traditions. Faouzi Chekili on guitar, piano and vocals, Ridha Kouhen on bass guitar, Mustapha Rehouma and sax and percussion, Sadok Gharbi on trumpet and vocals and Skaner Alim on drums and vocals. They came together as a band around 1968 when most of the members studied together at the University of Tunis. Via Jakarta Records: Dalton was a band from Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
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