On a balmy Southern Californian evening in 2003, dj, producer and self-proclaimed "musical adventurer" Cheb i Sabbah joined forces with Pakistani Qawwali ensemble Riffat Sultana & Party along with ...

Cheb i Sabbah's life traces an almost fairy-tale perfect path through the evolution of what's now called world music. Born in Algeria in 1947, he absorbed the Judeo-Arabic Andalusian music of his ...

Mix devotional songs from ancient cultures with modern electronic house rhythms and what do you get? If you're the Algerian-born San Francisco DJ Cheb i Sabbah you get modern music that preserves the ...

Hollywood filmmakers put world music in their movies whenever they want to create an exotic mood, which is why -- to cite just one current example -- director Adrian Lyne used songs by the great ...

The influential producer, musician and DJ hooked into traditions from India to North Africa to make music that was perfect for the digital... Global DJ, composer and musician Cheb I Sabbah died last ...

The man born Haim Srge El Baaz, but much better known under his DJ-production moniker Cheb i Sabbah, has been one of the world's leading world-music--electronica fusionists for eons, but it's been ...

On his previous disc, La Kahena, San Francisco-based, Algerian-born DJ Cheb i Sabbah explored the sounds of his native North Africa, adding tracks and loops to the material he had recorded there upon ...

DJ Cheb i Sabbah was one of the first DJs to spin records in Paris during the '60s, and fused Asian/Indian sounds with electronic beats during the '80s. Sadly, Sabbah has just been diagnosed with ...

Algerian-born, San Francisco-based global house DJ, producer and musician, Cheb I Sabbah has died, according to numerous reports. Sabbah's omnivorous, globe-spanning traditional beats and sounds… By ...

Global DJ, composer and musician Cheb I Sabbah died last Thursday at the age of 66 after a two-year battle with Stage IV stomach cancer. Gifted with a radiant personality and a joyous spirit, he ...

DJ Cheb i Sabbah’s new album, Krishna Lila (Six Degrees), may well be the first collection of bhajans, or Hindi devotional tunes, constructed in Pro Tools. It was recorded over a two-year period on ...