North Africa groove (algeria)

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(Idir : A vava inouva)
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(Idir : tagrawla)
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(Idir: Aghrib)
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(Idir : Cfigh)
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Idir : Assandu )
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(Idir : mughligh)
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(Idir : zwit rwit )
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(Idir :Azwaw )
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(Idir : mughligh)
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(Idir : tighri )
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(Idir : Arrac Negh)
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(isefra)
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Idir was born in 1949 at A�t Lahc�ne a Berber village in Haute-Kabylia. IDIR's real name is Hamid Cheriet. This farmer's son started studying Geology and was destined for a career in the petroleum industry before his rise to stardom. Idir has been the ambassador of the Kabyle culture, especially the Kabyle music, with only his vocals and acoustic guitar. Idir has always used his status to claim his Berber (Amazigh) identity. His first album "A Vava inouva" came out in 1976, and the song "A Vava inouva" was translated into seven languages. After notable success, Idir wrote and recorded his second album "Ay Arrac Negh" (to our children) in 1979.
Idir restarted his career again with the release of a compilation in 1991 of seventeen songs from his first two albums "A Vava inouva" and "Ay Arrac Negh".
In 1993, a new album "les Chasseurs de lumi�res" (the hunters of lights) appeared on the Blue Silver label. "Les Chasseurs de lumi�res" is about (his) predilection, love, freedom and exile (which he had known since he moved to the Paris region in 1975). The acoustic guitar gives to the songs of this album a touch of modernism. We can also hear the voice of the Breton singer Alan Stivell in the duo "Isaltiyen". Idir performed his songs for the public at the Olympia in Paris on June 26th, 27th and 28th, 1993

Idir, a man of conviction has often participated in many concerts supporting different causes. For example, on June 22nd 1995 more than 6,000 people came to applaud the singer and his friend Khaled, initiators of the association "l'Alg�rie la vie"(Algeria my life) which invited them to a concert for peace freedom and tolerance. Idir also took part in the concert in memory of Matoub Lounes, the Kabyle singer who was assassinated in 1998.
Idir restarted his career once again with "Identities" in 1999, a tribute album which joined numerous artists together from Manu Chao to Dan Ar Braz without forgetting Maxime Le Forestier or Scotswoman Karen Matheson for a "A vava inouva 2", but also Gnawa Diffusion, Zebda, Gilles Servat, Geoffrey Oryema and the Orchestre National de Barb�s.
Idir defended his national identity once again at "Le Z�nith" in Paris in the spring of 2001 at the "21st berber's spring", a celebration of Berber culture. And on July 8th, he organised a special fund-raising concert to support the population in Kabylia when anti-government riots rocked the cradle of Berber culture in the summer of 2001. Idir was joined by a huge list of stars and thousands of Algerian and French fans who turned out to "Le Z�nith" to support the population in Kabylia

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deoui haly

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Gnawa Diffusion � Fermez les stores

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Gnawa diffusion

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Gnawa diffusion : inaal ding dong

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Gnawa diffusion : ouvrez les stores

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awa Diffusion � Charlatown

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small sample, including a live performance from 2005

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Gnawa Diffusion � Live at Sfinks 

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Gnawa Diffusion - Baba Salem

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Gnawa Diffusion � Ombre elle

At first, this algerian band of mixed nationality seems to fall into a common immigrant music nether zone. It's one step removed from the traditional gnawa music played by artists in Morocco -- keyboards and samples figure in along with flowing acoustic gimbri lines -- but equally far from the fully realized electric mix of modern world dance and pop elements that a group like Zebda offers. Lead singer Amaz isn't one of those spiraling Islamic vocal masters, which may account for Gnawa Diffusion aiming for the kind of link between reggae rhythms and gnawa melodies that Sargento Garcia is pursuing with salsa and ragamuffin. "Ouvrez les Stores" may be the clearest example -- it starts with pure rapid-fire dancehall toasting, shifts abruptly to long gimbri lines and Arabic vocals, and then trades back and forth between the two. But marimbas come out to play on "Madanga," "Kabariou" boasts 12-string acoustic slide guitar blues soloing over clattering hand percussion (always more Arabic than Jamaican), and a wah-wah electric slide guitar (?!) is featured down in the reggae rhythm of the title track, which is built around an Arabic keyboard melody. "Chara Allah" and "Gazal au Fond de la Nuit" are traditional Arabic, ska skank guitar meets the marimba on "Daka Barimba," and "Sabrina/Gas Naturel" alternates accordion and gimbri over reggae chop guitar. If this sounds haphazard and all over the map, not yet fully formed may be a better description for Bab el Oued Kingston. There seems to be an underlying method to the ideas in Gnawa Diffusion's music that a bit of judicious editing and focus would throw into sharper relief. ~ Don Snowden, All Music Guide

Cheb Mami & Nina Rocha Miranda � Moonrise
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Parisien Du Nord 
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Azwaw 

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Baida 

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Bent Bareh 

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Bladi El Jazayer 

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Desert Rose 
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Hawalooh 

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Hay Woudi Wa Hay Galbi 
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Ma Ma 

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Le Fet Ghee Mneem 

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Mely Mely 

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Khalouni 
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Le Rai C`est Chic 

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Madanite cheb mami ft wyclif jean
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Ma Vie 2 Fois 

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Ana Oualache 
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Rani Maeak El Yoom 
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Rim Lachoua 
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Tzazae 

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Viens Habibi 
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Ya Hamami 

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Cheb Mami's most notable attribute is his vocal range, often quoted as being three octaves. He sings in both French and Maghribi Arabic.
In 1982, the 16 year old adolescent sang on the "Alhan wa Chabab" radio show, a singing competition organised by Radio T�levision Alg�rienne. He sang "El Marsam" (The Sanctuary) a classic of Oranese music from the 1920�s. The audience was transfixed by the sheer emotion of his performance and by his sinuous vocal intonations which captured perfectly the flavour of the song�s title. The judges, who represented a government which refused to admit even the existence of ra�, gave the first prize to a cover version of a hit by the famous Egyptian diva, Oum Kalthoum, but were forced to acknowledge the standing ovation Mami received by awarding him second prize.
Cheb Mami was spotted by Boualem, the producer of the Oran label, Disco Maghreb, and the cassette waltz began. From 1982 to 1985, Cheb Mami recorded about ten cassettes, whose production varied from 100,000 to 500,000 copies.
Cheb Mami made his first official public appearance at the First Oran Ra� Festival in 1985, which marked the official recognition of the genre by the Algerian authorities.

As well as recording many straight ra� songs, Cheb Mami has achieved crossover success with the hip-hop remix of his track "Parisien du Nord" on his album Meli Meli and also with the backing vocals on Sting's hit "Desert Rose".
When the Sting's album was released in 2000, the pair's duet, "Desert Rose", went rocketing to the top of singles charts around the world, fulfilling Mami's long-held dream of internationalising Ra� sounds.
Perhaps Mami's most successful recording is the album Dellali, produced by former CHIC guitarist Nile Rodgers, which was released soon after his collaboration with Sting. Coincidentally, the album's lead single is entitled "Le Rai C'est CHIC" - although the word is used in the original French sense

Abadou 
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Beda 
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Anti  
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Dis Moi  
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Eray 
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Je Mavoyais Dega 
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Ma Vie  
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Miskeen  
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Nasel Fek 
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Omri  

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Daiman 
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Ach Adani  
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Aiya Aiya 
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Bani Al Insane 
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Bent Sahra 

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El Hamame 
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Enti Rahti 

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Habina  

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Ida 
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Malheureux Toujours  
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Menfi  

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Ya Rayah 
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Rachid Taha � Rock el Casbah
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Ala Jalkroum 

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Barra Barra 

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Medina 

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Nokta 

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Foqt Foqt 
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Hey Enta 
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Enti Rahti 

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Qalantiqa 

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Voila Voila 
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Abdelqader 

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Chebba 

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Didi 
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Omri 
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Daiman 
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Ya Rayeh 
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Rachid Taha (born 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is an Algerian and French musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as ra�, techno, rock and punk. Based in Paris, France where he began his solo career after his beginnings as the leader of the French rock band "Carte de S�jour", he is the only rocker singing in Arabic. Politically-engaged, he has always stood up to defend democracy, tolerance and altruism against racism, communitarism and discrimination. Produced by Steve Hillage, he was given full recognition by his peers thanks to his album T�kitoi in 2004, and in 2005 he has performed with Robert Plant, Patti Smith, Brian Eno.
Taha moved from Algeria to Alsace, France, where his father had already emigrated, in 1968. In 1981, while living in Lyon, France, Taha met Mohammed and Moktar Amini. The two of them, Rachid, Djamel Dif and Eric Vaquer would later form the band Carte de s�jour ("residence permit") and record their first maxi single Carte de S�jour in 1983. Their first LP Rhoromanie, came out in 1984. Their second and last LP entitled Deux et Demi was released in 1986 and included their famous and ironic cover of Douce France, originally sung by Charles Trenet. The band dissolved in 1989.

Aisha 
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Detni Essekra 
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weely Elly 

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Lillah 
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Ouelli El Darek 
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Sahra 
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Walou Walou 
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Haya Haya 
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Hey Quedi 
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Trigue Lycee 

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Elharba Win

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Aalach Tloumouni 
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Caest La Nuit 
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Derwiche Tourneur 
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Edir Easseba 
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El Aadyen 
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El Bab 

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Gouloulha Dji 
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Mel Habibti 

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Melha 
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Ya Aachkou 
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Khaled - Ya Rayi 
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Khaled & Cameron Cartio - Henna
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Khaled [����] is an Algerian ra� musician from Oran. He was born Khaled Hadj Brahim in 29 February 1960 in Sidi-El-Houri, Algeria. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for "Young Khaled") and has become probably the most internationally famous Algerian singer. His popularity has earned him the unofficial title "King of Ra�". The type of music he is most closely associated with is ra� (pronounced similarly to "rye"), a supremely danceable style that began in the Algerian city of Oran during the early 20th century and crossed over to wide acclaim in Europe during the 1980s.
At the age of fourteen Khaled formed his first band, "Les Cinq Etoiles" (French for "The Five Stars"), and began playing at wedding parties and local cabarets. He recorded his first solo single, "Trigue Lycee" (Arabic for "The Road to School"), at age fourteen and soon became involved with the early-1980s changes in the ra� sound, incorporating western instruments and studio techniques. Algerian Islamic fundamentalists were violently opposed to ra� because of its sometimes irreverent tone and the fact that ra� singers freely addressed taboo issues like romantic love, drugs, and alcohol. Fundamentalists were infuriated when the Algerian government, in the wake of a hugely popular 1985 ra� festival in Oran, officially declared it to be one of the country's native music styles. In response, fundamentalists sent death threats to some ra� artists and murdered at least one, Cheb Hasni. The danger forced Khaled to move to Paris in 1986 (see 1986 in music). In 1992 (see 1992 in music), after dropping "Cheb" from his name, he released his self titled album Khaled, which established his reputation as a superstar in France and among Algerian emigrants around the world.
His audience has continued to expand throughout the 1990s, and has collaborated with hip hop artists. In spite of his superstar status in France, Algeria and India, his popularity in the US, UK and other countries has been limited to a small but devoted cult following. But his greatest hit song Aicha seems to be known all over the world

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You can watch and listen to Souad at this year's music awards for world music

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