Subcategories
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Sidi Bemol
Surprising by the richness of his music, Sidi Bémol (a.k.a. Hocine Boukella or Cheikh for the fans) is the composer of fusion : between modernity and tradition, between chaabi, gnawa, blues and rock, Berberic and Celtic music. Changing languages over the albums -Arabic, Kabyle, French and English-, his texts are meaningful, successively poetic, nostalgic, critical, humorous. He depicts society with much tenderness and lucidity...
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L'Odyssée de Fulay
L'Odyssée de Fulay, Chants Berbères Antiques is a musical tale. A fantastic tale punctuated by the songs of a troubadour accompanied by two musicians. It's a tale of legends and mythology... where we learn that the Greek gods came to Berberia.
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L'Attirail
L’Attirail was born on the road in the mid-1990s. During a road trip together, Xavier Demerliac (guitar) and Jean-Stéphane Brosse (accordion) defined the aesthetic of their future band: to create imaginary acoustic music, humorously blending borders and geographies.
From their very first album, Musiques des Préfectures Autonomes (1996), L’Attirail won over critics with their style: offbeat, post-traditional music, a mix of cultures and sounds, building bridges between East and West, between purists of tradition and followers of modernity. The atmosphere created by this music, seemingly simple but in reality complex, is perfectly suited to gently dissociating the listener from their foundations and transporting them to familiar yet unknown lands. The addition of soundtracks, gleaned from around the world by Xavier Demerliac, contributes to the originality of these musical road movies.
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Izlan Ibahriyen
Chants Marins Kabyles, "Izlan Ibaḥriyen", is an atypical show that introduces us to the Kabylia of fishermen and sailors. Izlan Ibaḥriyen is also a collection of poems dedicated to the Kabylia of fishermen and sailors. In these songs, the ports of Bejaia, the coves of Tigzirt, the cliffs of Jijel, the beaches of Boumerdés and the bay of Algiers become an astonishing theatre, animated by winds, waves and legends, populated by picturesque and endearing characters who tell their extraordinary stories.
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Iwal
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Elho
Hocine Boukella, author, composer, guitarist, singer under the pseudonym Sidi Bémol, is none other than Elho the cartoonist!
