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  Watch it here .  This is courtesy the FaceBook page (which I hope you can access) of the Archives Numérique du Cinéma Algérien, who say ab...

I had not known until yesterday that the rai band Raïna Raï had toured the US. (I found this posted on a FaceBook group I belong to.) Acc...

My apologies to whomever I grabbed this from off the web. It was over a year and a half ago and I can't remember where I got it fro...

It's the anniversary of the Paris police massacre of two to three hundred Algerians. Great article in The Funambulist on the event,...

Yesterday I read Maurice El Medioni's book, A Memoir: From Oran to Marseilles (1938-1992 (a terrific resource) and learned this fascina...

Isn't the jacket for this 45 rpm amazing? The song "Amirouche" (listen here ), a tribute to Amirouche Aït Hamouda, a her...

Chris Silver is blogging for Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Here he takes up recordings from the t...

Latest blast from Toukadime, a tribute to Mohamed Mazouni.

This is one of Rimitti's earliest recordings, if not the earliest (and I have the good luck to own this one). One of the tracks, "E...

I looked a bit more at the short Algerian TV documentary on Mahieddine Bentir that I linked to in my previous post. (I realize that it'...

Oh, to have seen this show in November, 1965 in Algiers, just three years after Algeria gained its independence! On the 11th anniversary of ...

Record covers of previously obscure recordings are much more readily available these days, due to various sources: disc...

If you are interested in 'Arab-Andalusian' music and particularly malouf, the variety played in Constantine (and Tunisia), and if y...

A friend recently posted a link to my blog, which prompted me to think that I should put up some new content. Resolution to self: more blog ...

Check out Toukadime's latest broadcast here , which features a track from this Hamani record, also featuring of course, Messaoud Bellemo...

When Gaston Ghrenassia left Algeria for France in 1961, he hoped to continue his musical career by playing the ma'louf repertoire of hi...

I'm in the middle of trying to finish off an article about pop-rai, and hunting for photos of Cheb Khaled and his first band, Les Cinq É...

Isn't this great? First off, in Arabic the cover says al-Cheikh al-Rimitti, that is, the male form, and not Cheikha. And in Latin sc...

I've not yet seen Star Trek Beyond but I plan to. Safia Boutella, who plays the alien scavenger Jaylah, has received quite good reviews...

Back in late May, I reviewed Spain-based Sahrawi singer Aziza Brahim's fourth album, Abbar el Hamada , for RootsWorld . Read it here . A...