I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...
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What if Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi were Moroccan?
Moroccan violinist Youness El Khazan reimagines classical masterpieces through Moroccan genres, blending Mozart or Beethoven with Aita, Chaabi, or reggada to show that music is a universal language.
As concert venues go, it's not exactly Carnegie Hall. A few dozen folding chairs are set up in a courtyard, in front of a modest elevated stage. A half-dozen musicians are crowded around a table, ...
“Toukadime” means ‘to present’ and that’s exactly what this DJ duo do: Present North African music to your ears. Offering the world a chance to hear some of the oldest and greatest songs from the ...
Chaabi—a word that literally translates to “popular” in both Arabic and Berber—has come to denote a vibrant music tradition that bridges the ceremonial cadences of the past with the immediacy of ...
El Gusto, shown at 5th Panorama of the European Film explores 'Chaabi' music through reunion of Muslim and Jewish music troupe, separated by the political turmoil Algerian Revolution Documentary "El ...
El-Hachemi Guerrouabi, who has died of a heart attack aged 68, was one of the last masters of chaabi, a music that emerged at the turn of the 20th century in the Algiers casbah. His role as a ...
Music from Angelique Kidjo covering Talking Heads, Eddie Daniels’ tribute to Egberto Gismonti, Algerian chaabi music from Koun Tara, a soccer song for Senegal by Sam Mangwana, and other sonic ...
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