one way i can tell that i love an artist is when my vocabulary takes a belly flop to monosyllabic and dense. case in point: Rachid Taha: a dude who rocks my frocks. i don't know if he is known in America but he ought to be. he is bad-ass, he is killer, he nails it down and brings it home.Rachid Taha is Algerian-French. also, he was born in Algeria and is based in France. he sings in Arabic. his...
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apart from his collaboration with Joe Strummer on "Rock the Casbah". So, to redress the balance, here is the man himself, in 1995, with a song that is the type of tune Bo Diddley and Clifton Chenier might have made if they were both Algerian. If that doesn't persuade you to hit that red button, then I don't know what will
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Rachid Taha adds a bit of Casbah spice to the sound of the westway, with a little help from Joe StrummerTurn it up !!
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I was dismayed to read recently that "Rock the Casbah" was listed as one of the US Neo-Conservative movement's favorite songs. First of all, did they understand anything but "Rock the Casbah" and "Put the bombs between the minarets"? Secondly, aren't these the same Christian fundamentalists that inspired Kevin Bacon to cut loose? It seems like they're exactly the ones being defied when the jet ...
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Rachid Taha live is a subject that, generally speaking, most people are in agreement on. Live he is in his element; it’s just that pretty much every time this spiritual heir to Joe Strummer appears on a London stage it’s in the hallowed halls of seated venues. You could argue that the trade off lies [...]
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I cannot believe I am just learning about this record. If Joe Strummer and Peter Gabriel recorded together, I think it would sound like this. From Taha's Wikipedia entry: "Rachid Taha (born 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is a French-Algerian musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as raï, techno, rock and punk. Based in Paris...he usually sings in Arabic...Politically-engaged, ..
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