Tag / Algeria

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  • Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi

    What better on a relaxed holiday day than listening to Hachemi Guerouabi, grand master of chaâbi music (people's or folk music) from Algiers?   Chaâbi came from working class areas in Algiers' casbah.  Its singers generally were city people displaced from rural areas.  They took melody from the classical Andalusian music that came to North…
    September 7, 2020
    Algeria, Chaâbi, Colonialism, Music

  • Ecoute-moi, camarade…

    A friend at the Magpie Coffee showed me the Radiooooo app today--and this is what came up. Maybe you know the song from Rachid Taha's cover (on Diwan 2). It's pretty desperate:   oh friend, listen to me forget that girl you hear me she's going to make you sick and you are going to…
    February 2, 2020
    Algeria, Mohamed Mazouni, Music, Paris, Rachid Taha
  • Skull soldier with skulls all around him--painted on the wall with flower pot and flowers below.

    Anarchist Neighborhood

    Belleville is a good place for political art.  Here are a few known ones.  The skull soldier showing that war means death (not career advancement) always has a well taken care of plant just below it, making the tableau complete.  Mad Marx, who I posted last year, seems to have acquired some friends (or did…
    June 2, 2019
    Algeria, Café, Capitalism, Colonialism, France, Gentrification, Paris, Politics