I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

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Music from Angelique Kidjo covering Talking Heads, Eddie Daniels’ tribute to Egberto Gismonti, Algerian chaabi music from Koun Tara, a soccer song for Senegal by Sam Mangwana, and other sonic ...

Conflict can often inspire great art, but when a country descends into chaos it often takes down its culture with it. Yet despite the fact that Algeria spent most of the 20th century either colonized ...

Chaabi—a word that literally translates to “popular” in both Arabic and Berber—has come to denote a vibrant music tradition that bridges the ceremonial cadences of the past with the immediacy of ...

Stories of old friends finding each other again aren't all that surprising in the age of Facebook and Twitter. But sometimes, those reunions can lead to the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance ...

Toe-tapping and infectious on emotional and intellectual levels, “El Gusto” is Algerian-born Safinez Bousbia’s heartwarming tribute to her native country’s lost egalitarianism as much as to the ...

A group of Jewish and Muslim musicians who played together in the bars and cafes of Algiers in the 1940s and '50s thought they'd never see each... Reunited After 50 Years, An Algerian Buena Vista ...