Rashida [Import]

Rashida [Import]

ASIN: B0000071PO

Track Listings

1. Kuenda

2. Would You Believe in Me

3. Lady Love

4. Luella

5. Shana

6. Satan

7. Rashida

8. War Song

9. Esperanza

10. Love Everlasting

11. Zenzile

Tracks:

Barra Barra
Foqt Foqt
Medina [Album Version] - Hakim Hamadouche, Steve Hillage, Hassan Lachal, , Hossam Ramzy, , Mahmoud Serour, Rachid Taha
Ala Jalkoum
AAA- Abdel Abrit, Steve Hillage, Hassan Lachal, Bob Loveday, Hossam Ramzy, , , Mahmoud Serour, Rachid Taha
Hey Anta - Abdel Abrit, Steve Hillage, Hassan Lachal, Bob Loveday, Hossam Ramzy, , , Mahmoud Serour, Rachid Taha
Qalantiqa - Abdel Abrit, Steve Hillage, Hassan Lachal, Bob Loveday, Hossam Ramzy, , , Mahmoud Serour, Rachid Taha
En Retard - Hakim Hamadouche, Steve Hillage, Hassan Lachal, , Jean-Max Mery, Rachid Taha
Verit
Ho Cherie Cherie
Garab

Amazon.com

After reinterpreting Arab classics on Diwân, Rachid Taha returns with a stunning collection of original compositions that owes as much to rock as to his Algerian rai roots, connecting the dots between Europe and the Maghreb. Here he again teams with producer Steve Hillage (Gong, System 7), whose guitar work and arrangements provide the muscular frameworks for Taha's songs and emotive voice. Rachid's new direction has all the power of rock, as on "Foqt Foqt," which maintains an insistent riff while retaining the delicacy and polyrhythms characterizing North African music. "Ala Jalkoum" offers a duet with Afrobeat superstar Femi Kuti while "Verité" and "Ho Cherie Cherie" could have come from a Peter Gabriel album. Made in Medina is a massive, but still natural, step forward that establishes Taha as the most visionary Algerian singer today. --Chris Nickson

Customer Reviews:

Really amazing.......2007-01-04

I, like many others, bought this cd after hearing Barra Barra on Blackhawn Down. I was pleasingly surprised to find that the rest of the cd is nearly as engaging. Garab is similar, with rhythmic lyrics and rock beats, and ala jalkoum is a ballad equally as entertaining. For people who like world music, particularly world flavour blended with western rhythmic beats and an edgy essence, this is a cd to add to their collection. Best songs: Barra Barra, Ala Jalkoum, En Retard, Garab.

Sit up and take notice!.......2002-10-06

A couple of weeks ago I heard the last cut on this CD--"Garab"-- played on an online radio station. I could scarcely believe what I heard! Rachid Taha is new to me; his style of music, Rai, is not played very much in the U.S. Basically, it's an internationally-evolved music originating with the traditional styles of North Africa (especially Algeria) as transformed by various interbreedings with Western blues, traditional, and folk. It is especially popular in Paris, where there are many expatriate Algerians, and Taha in this album has infused his roots with a stark 'urban punk' influence that can really smoke. It helps that the album is produced by Steve Hillage (formerly associated with groups like Gong, The Orb, and System 7), who knows well where to add a bit of meat to make the mix take off. "Garab", for example, is a long, continually escalating trance piece that starts rather innocently but by its end immerses you in an atmosphere that would frighten the demons of hell. Buy it! You'll like it!

This CD tries too hard.......2002-08-20

I was disapointed with this CD as the artist tries too hard to be do too much in 1 CD. It tries to incorporate too many styles without doing justice any any of them. It isn't a dance, or techno CD and is far too Western to be culturally Arabic. I felt I got nothing of what I was looking for which was contemporary and dancible Rai. This is more atune to Alternative music with foreign lyrics.

My third Taha album.......2002-07-06

My first experience with Taha was when I found Ole Ole while browsing the International section at a CD store. Never heard of him before, but loved the album. I'm always looking for different world beat music.

So then I bought Diwan. Hated it. Too traditional for me, I guess. Never could listen to the whole album. It easily made the first cut when dumping CDs on an unsuspecting music dealer.

Wasn't sure which direction Medina would go, but the comments on the album cover sounded encouraging. Love it. Better than Ole Ole.

...

This one grows on you - Buy it!.......2002-04-08

First, my prejudice: I like RAI music, as well as old stuff like Fairuz, and African musicians like Samba Ngo and Habib Koito. I really liked this album! But not without reservations - here's some minor gripes:

The first song Barra Barra has been heard as background in BlackHawk Down and in a PBS special on the intifadah al jadeeda. Still, Taha et al. dropped the ball - they could have transfigured the theme into something even more interesting in the middle section after it revs up into electric ... but it ends strong.

The song "Made in Medinah" itself is a bit repetitive and too much on the Eurotechno side for my taste.

The fifth song, Aie-Aie-Aie, also disapoints insofar as it could have been improved by avoiding the Aie-Aie-Aie theme which will not play well with English speakers (liable to hear it as the plaintif aye-yay-yay of Yiddish fame). Once I got used to that (yes ana amreekee), however, it became one of my favorites on the album.

Overview: I think this album has the potential to make inroads into the American audience and so my criticisms are pointed at what I think might impede this, presumably desireable (read: money), goal.

Tracks:

Tekitoi? (Who Are You?)
Rock El Casbah
Lli Fat Mat! (Waht Is Past Is Dead And Gone!)
H'asbu-Hum (Ask Them For An Explanation)
Safi (Pure)
Meftuh' (Open)
Winta
Nah'seb (I Count)
Dima (Always)
Mamachi
Shuf (Look)
Stenna (Wait)
Ya Rayah
Viola Viola (Here It Is, Here It Is) (Spanish Version)

Amazon.com

Following up on the excellent Made in Medina, Algerian-born singer Rachid Taha returns with the equally impressive Tekitoi, his fifth album. Taha has long mixed North African rai and chaabi with alternative rock, electronic sounds (Brian Eno co-writes one song), techno rhythms and a smattering of other styles. But instead of turning these diverse sounds into a cacophonic bowl of mush, Taha and longtime collaborator Steve Hillage balance muscular rhythms, a panoramic feeling of space, and Taha's own rock star leanings--never has this fusion been better illustrated than here on "Safi (Pure)." Taha also shows a wicked sense of humor with his ironic and somewhat tongue-in-cheek version of the Clash's "Rock The Casbah," taking some of the funk out while adding strings (by Egyptian Strings Ensemble) that push up the kitsch value. This album and its maker's many fans prove that not everyone of Middle Eastern origin is a conservative or a fundamentalist. For Taha, though, it's simply another boundary breaking effort. --Tad Hendrickson

Customer Reviews:

Rachid Taha is at his best!.......2005-04-11

Rachid Taha is truly innovative. He may not have the same voice qualities as Khaled, the King of Rai, or Cheb Mami, the Prince of Rai. However, he compensates the listener with truly unique music that carries the signature of his wounded voice. All tracks here are great and very consistent. The music is well done. Most lyrics convey a political message and written by Rachid, and also composed by him with the production of Steve Hillage, the Prince of Arabia. Rachid's music is so unique making it impossible to classify as rai, techno, rock, pop, etc. I classify it as Rachidmania. If you get the DVD, it basically documents his 2004 tour in Mexico.

One of the best, if not THE best album of 2004.......2004-12-22

Rachid is a master...this album is fantastic from start to finish. Highlights include the INCREDIBLY funky "Lli fat mat!" and "Nah'seb" as well as the title track and, of course, "Rock el Casbah." Two cool bonus tracks are included, one being "Ya Rayah" which was on his album "Diwan" and the Spanish language version of "Voila voila," which, after viewing the very cool DVD that comes with this album, you will understand its inclusion. This guy is amazing, and belongs in the same league with Bob Dylan and Caetano Veloso. He should be a statesman!! Bravo, Rachid.

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Poetry and music.

Diwan 2
Rachid Taha
Manufacturer: Wrasse Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Ecoute Moi Camarade
Rani
Agatha
Kifache Rah
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Ah Mon Amour
Mataouel Dellil
Maydoum
Ghanni Li Shwaya

Customer Reviews:

Poetry and music........2007-03-10

In contrast to the more in your face "Tekitoi", he has gone for traditional instruments like the gasba (flute) and guellal (percussion) to get the sound he was after.
The stand out track though is not one of the rediscovered classics, as good as they are, it is the anti-racist anthem "Agatha". With its catchy-as-hell chanted lyrics, a rolling bass and distinctively Arabic strings, this tune is one guaranteed to have you singing along irrespective of your level of French.
Assuming your French is as rusty as mine, you'll be pleased to see that the lyrics have been translated and recount a tale of doubted parentage told with a dark and drunken humour.
The album opens with "Ecoute-moi camarade", which Rachid Taha (and this sounds like a Freudian metaphor) apparently discovered while rifling his parents attic. As with "Agatha", there is more feminine treachery afoot as the poor lover tries to talk himself out of being in love with a woman he suspects is cheating on him.
Again we have a crashing chorus to carry the song along and no doubt both these tracks will do the business in France (why oh why can't we ever hear music like this on our most popular radio stations? Do they think we are all fools?)
Before you assume, Rachid Taha is exercising a misogynist tendency, the rest of the tracks deal with epic loves and the experiences of the many caught between cultures and on some tracks he covers off both as in "Gana el Hawa".
The album was recorded in London, Paris and Cairo and sees him back with studio whiz and legend in his own right Steve Hillage.
Rachid Taha is an artist at the top of his game with the people around him to get the job done.
Whether you are a lover of Khaled and fancy something a bit rougher or were blown away by this African soul rebel's last album and want to hear him explore the sounds of his native Algeria further, this is an essential album.

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This stuff is most definitely haram.. naughty naughty naughty.

Tékitoi (Who Are You?)
Rachid Taha
Manufacturer: Wrasse Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00094ARWI
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Tracks:

Tekitoi
Rock el Casbah
Li Fet Met
Hassbouhoum
Safi
Maftouh
Winta
Nahseb
Dima
Mamachi
Shouf

Album Description

The 8th album for Taha, who routinely toes the line between what is considered "world beat" and the rock/punk/country sound of his music. Produced by STEVE HILLAGE.

Customer Reviews:

This stuff is most definitely haram.. naughty naughty naughty........2006-10-27

I've been a huge fan of Rachid since he rocked the sndtrk in Blackhawk Down. His tunes went a long way toward making that film the classic it is. And this album is in every way the equal of the white phosphorus power punk he laid down there.

This guy is unbelievable. Arabic is a truly incredible language, one that has not really been given full reign to flower due to certain -ahem- cultural restraints that have usually bound its speakers, historically. Rachid has shed certain of those constraints like the Hulk erupting through his Hanes. The language snaps like a bullwhip, tears & slashes like a powersaw.

Virtually every song here sneers ferociously, and is guaranteed to crease your knickers. Like the best wedgie you've ever gotten.

Do yourself a favor. Buy this album, slap it in your car stereo and drive to Key West. Or Argentina. Whichever is farther. Driving music for driving. You'll be there before you know it, a crap eating grin on your face.

I'm sure there's a sheik in some inner sanctum of Al-Azhar, windowshades drawn, jamming air guitar to this stuff.

One can only hope.

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Not Rock/Roll but Samba Middle Eastern Style
TAHA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome powerhouse performance
Led Zep meets Rai in a dark Brussels club
Rachid Taha Live

Live
Rachid Taha
Manufacturer: Ark 21
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Release Date: 2002-03-12

Tracks:

Menfi
Nokta
Ida
Ya Rayah
Medina
Bent Sahra
Barra Barra
Foqt Foqt
Ala Jalkoum
Voila Voila
Garab

Amazon.com

Rachid Taha rules the rai music scene with a hip sound that gathers up both the desert rhythms of North African traditional music and the unbridled energy of rock and electronic dance music. A genuine global star, Taha plays to the masses in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and some Americans have been lucky enough to see this galvanizing performer in midsize clubs. In either setting there is a heady atmosphere of a wild Algerian frat party that is barely under control. Recorded during a single show in Brussels while touring behind the excellent Made in Medina (five of the set's 11 songs are from this album), Live features great tunes performed by Taha's working band and a few special guests. Live also captures the essence of the Taha performance. Sometimes bantering good-naturedly with the crowd in French, sometimes whipping them into a cheering frenzy, Taha proves that he is the consummate entertainer. This album is what live music is all about--great music, good times, and hanging out with people. --Tad Hendrickson

Customer Reviews:

Not Rock/Roll but Samba Middle Eastern Style.......2006-10-18

Ya Rayah was the reason I purchased this CD; which has an excellant Samba rythm and the Muslim women yowling in the audiance - best to stick with the Rai Music and not to imitate Rock/Roll. Keep your culture in the music and rythms..not Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix.
Would like to listen to the studio version of Ya Rayah to compare with the Live version. Like Peter Frampton, his live album was great. Very few artist's live versions are worth listening to.

TAHA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-08-01

I usually don't like CD's made from live shows but this one was true quality. Taha's voice carries very well and all the songs were great but BARRA BARRA totally rocks!!!!

awesome powerhouse performance.......2005-08-08

This is one of the best live albums I have ever heard. I usually dislike live albums because of the extraneous noise, but the sheer energy of this performance makes everything else seem pale. Rachid Taha takes essential north African/Arabic rai and folk rhythms and overlays a pounding kicking rock drum/bass/guitar and belts out the songs in Arabic. It is interesting to see the sound morph into techno trance in a live performance. I can never get tired of this album. Go for it!

Led Zep meets Rai in a dark Brussels club.......2003-03-07

Postcard from Rachid Taha's recent world tour. The Led Zep reference is not a joke - he gives them a shout out in "Foqt Foqt" and indeed this music is closer to rock than to rai. Aurally, the sound, featuring Taha's declamatory baritone and the Francois Delfin's hard edged lead guitar, reminds me as nothing so much as late 1970s/early 1980s John Cale, but with derbouka (percussion), lute, and keyboard synths providing the Arabic orchestral string parts. Steve Hillage adds a second guitar on six cuts, and on some cuts ("Medina," "Voila Voila") the band, in effect, plays techno live. Quite a disk.

Rachid Taha Live.......2003-01-28

This is a truly amazing adrenaline packed surge of raw power in a style way above every day "music". Get it if you like the truly unique.
It is dynamite!!!

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The Sexiest Around
Let the desert party begin...
A live recording of ensemble performance
Rai uno!
The Carlos Vives of Rai

Diwan
Rachid Taha
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
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Binding: Audio CD

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Aiya Aiya

Amazon.com

The second collaboration between Taha, an Algerian living in France, and '70s prog rocker Steve Hillage, Diwan carries forward the old/new hybrid of 1996's Ole Ole. Taha is clearly familiar with ancient Middle Eastern melodies, but he's also comfortable with the dance rhythms of Parisian nightclubs. Traditionalists will find the straightforward melodies and instrumentation of "Habina" and "Ach Adani" the most satisfying, but Diwan's most adventurous track, "Bent Sahra," may be its best. Instead of strings, the song leans heavily on an industrial beat and the hypnotic mantra of a guest female vocalist. Though not for purists, it perfectly captures the urban throb of Paris and the intense dislocation felt by every immigrant. --David Bombeck

Customer Reviews:

The Sexiest Around.......2007-06-08

What music is all about. Ecstatic, passionate, infectious, intelligent. Taha's voix joli-laid is one of the sexiest around.

Let the desert party begin..........2004-02-06

"Diwan" is a really rich album - a great way to introduce others to rai music without losing itself to Western studio overproduction. Some other readers' comments seem confusing to me. 6 minutes too long for a song? Obviously that person isn't familiar with traditional Arabic music where songs can go on for what seem like eons. Of course, "Ya Rayah" is the anchor to this album - the one song (if any of Taha's) that anyone would know, but the other's are just as good. I enjoy the change in tempo and intensity of "Habina", and the good times that "Ida" seems to evoke. Rachid's voice is raw and unmodified, which makes the songs all the more genuine. "Diwan" is definitely a keeper, and also is his most consistent album.

A live recording of ensemble performance.......2004-01-14

Diwan is an impressively showcased and very highly recommended collection of music from the Middle East featuring the inspirational works of the group Rabita Andalusa. Their aim is to preserve the Andalusian-Maghrebi musical style while affirming ties of popular culture to Northern Morocco. A live recording of ensemble performance, Diwan offers an enlightened and captivating treasury of sound, tradition, and creativity. The pieces performed in Diwan include: Mashaliya (1:14), Tuishya (3:50), San'a "Kala Li" (3:03), Taqsim 'ud (0:28), Tuishya (0:55), San'a "Ma Kuntu Hadri" (4:51), Inshad (2:33), Tuishya (1:28), San'a "Ya Wahida" (5:57), San'a "Neddemem Wa Nakhda" (5:03), Taqsim qanun (1:20), Mawal (1:19), Taqsim 'ud (0:45), Mawal (1:01), Insiraf Sha'abi (7:31), Bint Bladi (8:32) and Habiba u Jarrahtini (5:50).

Rai uno!.......2003-10-28

I had no idea what to expect when I purchased "Diwan" in cassette format several years ago. It had been highly recommended in the hi-tech mag "Wired", and, being interested in world music, I decided to take a chance.

I've now just about worn it out, having listened to it countless times. With "Diwan" in my pocket I go out for a brisk two-mile walk every evening and this guy rocks! And I rock as I walk, snapping my fingers to the infectious beat. It's fantastic music and I defy anyone to keep still once they hear it!

The Carlos Vives of Rai.......2002-11-30

This cd contains the great Arabic classics of the past but they are done in a very modern way albeit folkloric. Think of this cd like the Carlos Vives of Arabic music.

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the king of rai

Diwan 2

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Album Description

Rachid Taha is a phenomenon in Arabic music. With his band, he brilliantly marries the driving rhythms and elaborate melodies of contemporary Arabic popular music with the forceful sound of post-punk guitar rock.... The raw sweat of his music and a well-known stance against racism and hypocrisy have earned him a high standing throughout Europe, the US and the Middle East.Rachid's music is intrinsically political and topical, and very much the music of the Arab Street. He is a person who feels his role is to make both a cultural and political statement: he doesn't separate the two things. Diwan 2 is a cornucopia of poetry and music - purity and truth - as only Rachid Taha can do.

Customer Reviews:

the king of rai.......2007-02-15

Rachid Taha has always made high quality music in which he incorporates a wide variety of styles. On Diwan2 he returns to the roots of rai but with some interesting additions. Some of the songs are in French and he has included English translations for all the songs. As previously stated, the music is more traditional and has more in common with Diwan than it does with more rock influenced albums like Made in Medina and Tekitoi. This does not take away from the power of the music but gives it a very earthy, almost primal feel. Another thing which Rachid Taha does on all his releases is to assemble great musicians to support his excellent, expressive voice. Rachid Taha fans will appreciate this disc as will anyone interested in some Algerian roots music or for that matter, anyone who enjoys good music in general.

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Definitive Collection

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ASIN: B000NDDUYM
Release Date: 2007-04-10

Album Description

2007 two disc (CD + DVD) pressing of this collection from the Algerian artists. The CD features 15 of his finest including 'Ya Rayah', 'Nokta' and 'Rock El Casbah' while the DVD features a documentary on Taha returning to his homeland of Algeria. Wrasse.

I Will Hold Your Tiny Hand: Evening Songs And Lullabies

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Please bring it back!
Enjoyable for kids and adults; not sugary or annoying
Easy listening songs your child can sing along with
One of my favorites!

I Will Hold Your Tiny Hand: Evening Songs And Lullabies
Steve Rachid
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Customer Reviews:

Please bring it back!.......1999-07-12

I loved this tape and have worn mine out. Please re-release this so I can have the CD!

Enjoyable for kids and adults; not sugary or annoying.......1999-05-27

I saw a review of this CD a couple years ago, borrowed it from the library, and then had to have it right away. Both of my little boys have fallen (and stayed) asleep to it. It's not sugary, annoying, or silly. It is soothing, sweet, and fun. The artist's voice is terrific and very easy to listen to. I recommended it to all my friends with kids.

Easy listening songs your child can sing along with.......1999-02-03

Charming, amusing, soothing songs all four of my children love to sing along with. Great for those times when the kids need to "wind down".

One of my favorites!.......1998-07-21

My daughter always fell asleep to this one, until she figured it out!

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François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres

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