Sahra-Cheb
Khaled
Raï avec une touche de reggae.
What a
surprise! I may be incult but I only purchased this one for the sake of ‘Aïcha’
which was a hit when I was a kid. And guess what? Hardly ever listen to it
anymore. I stay stuck on ‘Sahra’, ‘Oran Marseille (Oran mix)’, ‘Lillah’, ‘Ouelli
El Darek’, ‘Detni Essekra’, ‘Walou Walou’, ‘Ki Kounti’, ‘Hey Ouedi’ and ‘Sratli’.
You get my gist…Keep an open ear to the sounds and you discover associations of beats you didn’t
even know existed. The album is a proper magnet, almost a pearl save for 4
songs. I was so busy going “huh!” that I actually found myself singing along in
Arabic. Ha!
