Thursday, June 3, 2010

Old music that is new to me

a while ago, when at this bar Zebulon, the Dj's started to play Khaled, an Algerian musician from the 70's. I was very attracted to this sound, so I did a little digging around and found out that Khaled's style of music is called Rai, a form of folk music that originated from Shepherds living in Algeria around the 1930's. You can definitely hear how this Rai was influenced by music coming from Spain and France at the time (which is a given because Algeria was so close to those countries). Here are two of my favorite songs that represent Rai (which translates to Opinion in english)

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