This night is devoted to the North African Raï music.
Best of Khaled
Brahim Khaled, is an Algerian singer of popular Rai music, a popular genre in the Maghreb. He is known mainly for his hit ‘Aïcha’ from 1996, which was in the Dutch Top 40 for weeks. Brahim is also known as the ‘King of Raï’.
Cd: Best Of Khaled.
Label: Wrasse Records (2007), code: WRA55 214.
Maghreb,
Terre d’envoutement.
Featuring: Khaled; Cheb Mami; Lounes Matoub; Idir; Lili Boniche…
Two CDs on which some forty artists worked, from the Maghreb,i.e. : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya & Mauritania. The repertoire consists of traditional as well as contemporary compositions.
Cd: Maghreb, Terre d’envoutement .
Label: Wagram music (2000), code: 3056962.
C
heb Nacim.
Following the tradition of the great Raï singers Cheb Hasni, Khaled and others, Cheb Nacim presents an album of passionate Raï songs by the great Raï singers, including his own original compositions. Style and instrumentation vary from a traditional "desert feeling" to hot rumba & dance grooves.
Cd: Algeriaanse Raï by Cheb Nacim.
Label: Arc Music (2006), code: EUCD 2037.
Djamel Laroussi.
He grew up in Algiers, and learned to play the guitar, influced by both the traditional music of his entourage (Chaabi, Rai) as well as that of Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau and The Beatles. In 1998 his first solo album ‘Sapoutaly’ was released, followed by "Étoile filante" in 2003, a concert that was recorded at the Cologne Stadtgarten, with the baladi from Egypt, the melhoun from Morocco and the salsa from Cuba. Cd: Djamel Laroussi ‘Live’. Label: Dadoua Records (2007).
MaRock.
The Dutch province of Noord-Brabant and Moroccon pop are not exactly associated with one another. Still, the Stichting Brabant Pop (Brabant Pop Foundation) started the MaRock project in 1999, which gave seven Moroccan bands the chance to find their place in the world of Dutch pop music.
Cd: Marokkaanse Pop uit Brabant (Moroccan Pop from Brabant) by MaRock. Label: Stichting Brabant Pop (1999), code: BBR009.
Hossam Ramzy.
The Raï originated in Algeria, but this style can be heard in the entire Middle East. The idea behind Egyptian Raï is to use and to feel different kinds of sound, rhythms, songs, all from the Arab world. It is the wish of Hosam Ramzy that anyone who listens to this album looks at the Arab world through a "hawk’s eye" and sees that it is a world of its own.
Cd: Egyptian Raï by Hossam Ramzy. Label: Arc Music (2006), code: EUCD 2025.
Kasba.
Kasba plays a mix of North African and Western styles of music and, in the past decade, has become one of the most prominent groups in the world of non-western music in the Netherlands. Kasba worked together with a lot of artists, varying from Paul de Leeuw to the Metropool orchestra, and from Frank Boeijen to Blof. Also, Kasba had a number 1 hit in Morocco and the band was nominated for many prizes in the Netherlands, such as the "Best Dutch world music act".
Cd: Darna by the Kasba. Label: LC Music (2009), code no.: KA02.
