Search - Cheb Khaled :: Ya Taleb

Ya Taleb
Cheb Khaled
Ya Taleb
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
  •  Track Listings (10) - Disc #1

French compilation for the controversial world music superstar, the most successful modern exponent of Algerian desert blues known as Rai. Featuring early tracks recorded in 1989 & 1985, when the artist started gain...  more »

     
1

Larger Image

CD Details

All Artists: Cheb Khaled
Title: Ya Taleb
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ark 21
Release Date: 11/26/2002
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: Africa, Middle East
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 618685006325

Synopsis

Album Description
French compilation for the controversial world music superstar, the most successful modern exponent of Algerian desert blues known as Rai. Featuring early tracks recorded in 1989 & 1985, when the artist started gaining international recognition & started recording albums on CD instead of just cassettes. Ten tracks. 2001.

Similarly Requested CDs

 

CD Reviews

Ya Taleb Review
P. Kelley | SC United States | 01/12/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album was produced during Cheb Khaled's final days in Algeria, just prior to his emigration owing to a fatwah pronounced against various rai artists. For those who know Khaled only from his "Kenza" and other recent Western audience-influenced releases, the sound is more raw and the drum rhythms, especially, are less stolidly 4/4, though no less riveting in their exotic funkyness. The result is a much more spontaneous and improvisatory sound, and one wonders in retrospect how much was lost in some of the newer releases. Of particular interest is an earlier, more syncopated version of "Serbi serbi"--one of my favorites, and the opening tune of the album "N'ssi n'ssi." No extended "dance mixes" here or interminable saxaphone solos, just an undiluted and feverish form of eclectic music, the likes of which have not been heard in the West since the demise of the Clash..."