Tracklist:

1- Najib Elhouch - Ya Aen Daly
2- Aakli Fiha - Cheb Tarik
3- Arzaa' - Hamid el-Shaeri
4- Makarena - Taalat Zein
5- M'hainek ya galbi - Cheb Kader
6- Urgences - Cheb Mami & Khaled
7- Rai nb Fever - Sidi Habibi
8- Dary Demoaak - Hamid el-Shaeri
9- Umlil (Ajdig) - Argan

An Arab Funk Mix for Nooryiah's 'Arabic Spice Blend' on NTS Radio

Killer track by Libyan artist Ahmed Fakroun, produced by Tommy Vance in London in 1974. Check out my other tracks by this great artist and more info and links over at 

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Ahmed Fakroun  - Njoom al lyel

Allegria Banon, puis Malika et enfin Tina. 

Malika - Ya ya twist

Al-Khawarizmi

Arab https://soundcloud.com/jack-hicham/sets/arabic-groove-podcast
حلوة الصورة أو أغنية "الفلاح" للفنان الليبي أحمد فكرون صدرت في العام 1977 وتضمنها البوم أوعدني فيما بعد، من كلمات الشاعر فرج المذبل ومن الحان وتوزيع موسيقي أحمد فكرون.
Ahmed Fakroun (Arabic: أحمد فكرون‎; born 1953) is a singer and songwriter from Benghazi, Libya. He is a pioneer of modern Arabic World Music.[citation needed]

John Storm Roberts, of Original Music, AllMusic, wrote that among raï singers, the pop-oriented Ahmed Fakroun stands out on two grounds. First, he is influenced by Europop and French art rock, not just the generalized rock of the others. Second, he's a multi-instrumentalist in both traditions as well as a singer. He plays bouzouki-like saz, mandol and darbouka drum, as well as guitar, bass guitar and keyboards. Sometimes he seems overly crossover-oriented: but on form, his crossover deepens into telling biculturalism 


Ahmed Fakroun — La ya hob (1977)

Taken from: Targ (CD/LP/DL)
Release Date: 17.02.2017
Glitterbeat Records

It’s the forgotten place. Lying between the mountains of northwest Tunisia and the Algerian border, the Bargou valley and the village named after it lie isolated, away from the world. It’s poor, barren country, but standing apart, Bargou has developed its own culture that had never been documented until Nidhal Yahyaoui began the task. Born in the valley, he grew up hearing his parents and family sing the songs that belong to the region, and he was determined that the music and traditions shouldn’t slip away into obscurity. With Targ, the album he’s made with his band Bargou 08, Yahyaoui has perfectly fused the past and the present to place Bargou on the map.

“Nidhal began collecting songs from all over the valley more than ten years ago,” explains producer and keyboard player Sofyann Ben Youssef, who’s known Yahyaoui since they were both ten years old. “No one had ever done that before. He listened to the women, to the village elders, and he learned all the variations on the songs. This is his passion, and he asked me to join him.”

Together, they assembled a collective of both local and European musicians who spent three weeks playing in the Yahyaoui family home in Bargou village. They worked on the material, shaping a sound that harnessed the power of the tradition and connected it to something the young would understand.

“It was important for us to record there and to use some local musicians on the record. But we also wanted the young people in the village to see that something could be created right there and that they didn’t need a lot of money to do it, to inspire them.’

At the heart are the songs themselves, and the insights they offer into the life of the Bargou valley through time. “We didn’t choose the material on Targ,” Ben Yousef says. “The songs chose us. The place made the selection for us. They brought it all alive"

With Targ, Bargou 08 make sure that the valley and its people will never be forgotten.

Targ

Mamchout

Bargou 08 - Mamchout

Arabic Rock & Oriental Groove

From cassette SYNTHE SUTIO SSP1002 (Ermont, 95,  France)

Faraji - Soura

From "Taksim Analog"
Out on November 23 2018
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Tribute to Georgette Sayegh's "Ya Nassini" (1973) ; the infamous might represent the very birth of Arabic pop compositions that include repeated choruses, a hook and a catchy melodic tune.
Originally composed by the excellent Elias Rahbani

Taksim Analog

PURCHASE ALBUM

Georgette

On croyait le grand raï mort avec le ­déclin de Khaled, Cheb Mami et con­sorts, dans le meilleur des cas réduit à quelques performances vocodées dans les boîtes à chicha des périphéries urbaines. Et voilà qu’il renaît par la voix rauque et enfumée d’un quadragénaire parisien originaire de Sidi Bel Abbès, en Algérie. Trois ans après El Mordjane, disque déjà prometteur, Sofiane Saidi est de retour, accompagné cette fois par Mazalda, un groupe de musiciens lyonnais avec lequel il a déjà électrisé les scènes françaises. En studio, guitares rock et synthés analogiques aux tournures mélismatiques invitent à tournoyer sous les étoiles (el ndjoum en arabe), sur un groove vintage mouillé d’une réverbe intimiste et chaleureuse, qui rappelle moins le raï des années 1990 que celui de la décennie précédente. Car, au-delà de la fête, plus cosmique que stroboscopique, Sofiane Saidi renoue surtout avec l’âpreté des origines, mélangeant batterie et derboukas, flûte électronique et flûte de roseau traditionnelle. Adaptées de vieux morceaux raï, ses chansons suintent le blues, celui que les bergers noyaient autrefois dans la bouteille sous les oliviers. La reprise du Saïda de Cheikha Rimitti qui clôture le disque — un chant de l’exil lancinant — donne des frissons.

| Airfon/Carton Records/L’Autre distribution.

Anne Berthod

Malika - Ya ya twist

Miziqa toukoum