Rachid Taha : Blood & Chocolate
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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 music is known to be influenced vastly by raï: (literally, Arabic for opinion) folk music that arose in the 1930s amidst the French colonization of Algeria as a vehicle to speak out and express an opinion. raï is believed to have been originated specifically by the Bedouin shepherds from the seaport Oran.reinterpretations of traditional Maghreb (which includes Algeria) and Arab songs comprised Rachid's fifth and breakthrough solo album, Diwan in 1998. he has since released at least six more albums, most of them critically acclaimed, including 2004's Tékitoi, produced by Steve Hillage. prior to his debut album in 1991, he was the leader of the French rock group, Carte de Séjour, which had two albums between them.
Garab is the final track from 2000's Made in Medina, which reunites Rachid and Hillage. it happened to be featured (as my favorite of the lot) in Katja Von Garnier's Blood & Chocolate, which is how i got to posting about Rachid. i had not mentioned in my B&C post that the film is adapted from the darker, more complex if young adult novel, Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause, to a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, who was a Bram Stoker nominee for best screenplay for The Ring.as with teen flicks, dark or light, one recurring theme was running - from your fears, your past, your fate. past the prologue, Garab opens the film to a hesitant loup garou (werewolf), running, literally, the stretch of Bucharest, Romania, wanting to escape from herself. Garab throbs, hammers, raps, and by the second minute, Garab has changed your mind about the big city; it is easier to get lost in the little city.picture that, absorb this:
Rachid Taha is Algerian-French. also, he was born in Algeria and is based in France. he sings in Arabic. his music is known to be influenced vastly by raï: (literally, Arabic for opinion) folk music that arose in the 1930s amidst the French colonization of Algeria as a vehicle to speak out and express an opinion. raï is believed to have been originated specifically by the Bedouin shepherds from the seaport Oran.reinterpretations of traditional Maghreb (which includes Algeria) and Arab songs comprised Rachid's fifth and breakthrough solo album, Diwan in 1998. he has since released at least six more albums, most of them critically acclaimed, including 2004's Tékitoi, produced by Steve Hillage. prior to his debut album in 1991, he was the leader of the French rock group, Carte de Séjour, which had two albums between them.Garab is the final track from 2000's Made in Medina, which reunites Rachid and Hillage. it happened to be featured (as my favorite of the lot) in Katja Von Garnier's Blood & Chocolate, which is how i got to posting about Rachid. i had not mentioned in my B&C post that the film is adapted from the darker, more complex if young adult novel, Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause, to a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, who was a Bram Stoker nominee for best screenplay for The Ring.as with teen flicks, dark or light, one recurring theme was running - from your fears, your past, your fate. past the prologue, Garab opens the film to a hesitant loup garou (werewolf), running, literally, the stretch of Bucharest, Romania, wanting to escape from herself. Garab throbs, hammers, raps, and by the second minute, Garab has changed your mind about the big city; it is easier to get lost in the little city.picture that, absorb this:
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