Arabic music / Leo Plenckers & Rai musician Cheb Hasni, produced by Cobie Ivens
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Arabic music / Leo Plenckers. (27:40 min)
Arabic music, like Western music, possesses a great richness and variety of musical forms and genres. It provides not only entertainment but also expresses feelings of beauty and emotion. This album offers an overview of the most important forms of classical Arabic music, popular music, and several genres of pop music, such as Egyptian gīl, Algerian raï, and Palestinian hip-hop. Attention is also paid to musical instruments and folk music. All discussed traditions, styles, and forms are illustrated with musical examples, both in notation and in sound.
CD. Arabische muziek – Leo Plenckers.
LABEL: Bulaaq (2013) code: 9789054601630. VIDEO
2– Cheb Hasni. (31:46 min)
Cheb Hasni, also known as Hasni Chakroun, was an Algerian singer and rai musician. Cheb Hasni is regarded as a pioneer of rai music. He is also known as ‘le rossignol du raï’, which literally means ‘the nightingale of rai’. Both women and men sang and listened to the new sound, as raï is inextricably linked to celebrations. In this style, Cheb Hasni, along with Cheb Nasro, embodies a second generation of musicians. With love raï, or sentimental raï, Hasni sings about love, passion, and the setbacks that accompany them. With nearly 150 recorded cassettes, Cheb Hasni remains one of the most prolific and talented raï singers of his generation. In 1994, he was killed in the Gambetta district of Oran, where he had grown up. He was 26 years old.
CD. Hasni 3 – Cheb Hasni. LABEL: Outre National (2022) code: ON05CD. VIDEO
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