Algeria

Tassili
09/06/2011 - 22:00
Touareg music’s biggest stars Tinariwen are back with a new album. Tassili is a stripped-back, acoustic gem that echoes their early days. We talk to the band’s bassist Eyadou Ag Leche.    Why did you leave Mali to record t...
05/16/2011 - 22:00
The pioneering Maghrebi band Orchestre National de Barbès play a rare UK show
Ishumar, les Rockers Oublies du Desert
03/27/2007 - 22:00
“Ishumar” is an altered Berber form of the French words “les chomeurs”, or people on the dole. It designates the thousands of Tuareg youth from the Sahara who were forced to abandon their traditional rural activities to find work in mainly Algerian cities...
03/01/2004 - 23:00
The Touareg rebel group Tinariwen is the original and most famous ‘Tishoumaren’ band, the style of music they invented in the early eighties while in exile and fighting for their people’s sovereignty. A unique blend of traditional desert poetry, just as i...
Souad Massi at Angouleme's Musiques Metisses May 2002
05/24/2002 - 22:00
A triumphant return to one of France’s most popular festivals. In 1999 when Massi came for the first time to Angoulême she was totally unknown, three years later she had become one of the true stars from Algeria.
02/29/2000 - 23:00
Rimitti passed away on Monday, May 15th 2005, only two days after performing with Khaled at the Zenith concert hall in Paris (at a concert called “Festival 100% Rai). Right up to her death the great-grandmother displayed astonishing vitality on stage. She...
03/20/1998 - 23:00
The very presence of rai singer Cheb Mami is a symbol that life wins out over all. Mami used to sing about love, about hearts broken by passion, about joy. But after the nightmarish turn of current events in Algeria and elsewhere, he has become a bit more...
03/20/1998 - 23:00
Rokia Traoré is a monument of grace. Her voice is pure and crystalline, her music full of chiselled harmonies... Everything seems to lead the listener to a sublime happiness.Born in Mali in 1974 Rokia Traoré established herself quickly. Thanks to her magn...
03/20/1998 - 23:00
The Orchestre National de Barbès (ONB) is more like a hydra than a musical ensemble, with its protean structure varying according to the availability of its twenty-odd members. One night there might be three guitarists giving the music an African tone and...
03/20/1998 - 23:00
But while he was becoming a star, the clouds of discontent were gathering over the Algerian people. So Khaled abandoned the "Cheb" title and worked even harder to become successful and proudly spread the Algerian culture around the world. The purists crit...
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