For his sixth studio album, Deran, Bombino recorded in Casablanca at Studio HIBA, a recording studio owned by the king of Morocco. In May of 2018, ahead of the album's release, the music blog, Noisey, called Bombino, "the World's Best Guitarist". Then, on the day before Deran's release, Bombino was dubbed "the Sultan of Shred" by the New York Times, a nickname that was then adopted by several news outlets around the world. The Sahara guitar desert storm is back.
