Since fleeing the fundamentalism of their native country 20 years ago and making Paris their capital in exile, Khaled, Cheb Mami, and other leading practitioners of rai, the youth pop of Algeria, have ...
On stage, Taha is an erratic performer: some of his gigs are magical invocations in which supercharged rock energy meets the complex rhythms of the Maghreb, and the singer darts around the stage ...
The only time I ever caught Rachid Taha live, at the Lincoln Center Arts Festival in 2002, I told my diary that the French-Algerian singer reminded me of another brazen rock usurper: Pink. An ...
Rachid Taha, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, shook up the global music scene with his inventive and fiery fusion of Algerian styles and rock, techno and punk. An engagingly bohemian-looking ...
On stage, Taha is an erratic performer: some of his gigs are magical invocations in which supercharged rock energy meets the complex rhythms of the Maghreb, and the singer darts around the stage ...
Although rai is undeniably a product of Algeria, for nearly 20 years Paris has been the principal incubator of this evolving strain of propulsive Arab rebel music. In France there are greater ...
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