Isn't the jacket for this 45 rpm amazing?
The song "Amirouche" (listen here), a tribute to Amirouche Aït Hamouda, a hero of the Algerian war of independence. A lieutenant in the Army of National Liberation (ALN) and head of the Third Wilaya, he was killed in battle with the French colonial forces on March 28, 1959. Read more about him here. The record was released on the Algerian label La Voix Du Globe -- I'm not sure in what year.
Noura (1942-2014) was one of Algeria's great female artists, who recorded over 500 sides, in Arabic, Berber (Kabyle/Taqbaylit) and French and in a variety of genres, in both France and Algeria, between the fifties and the eighties. Read more here.
And please check out this Scopitone from Noura, "Ammi Belkacem."
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