Archive for July, 2007
The First Mediterranean Amazigh Festival in Tangier
Izri band
This event was the most successful Amazigh festival in Arif ever. The giant artists of Rif, Kabyle: Khalid Izri, Djur Djura, Walid Mimoun, Thidrin, Imetlaa, and others took part in the successfulness of this big event. Tangier lived special Amazigh mediterranean rhythms.
The stadium of Tangiers was full of the lovers of Amazigh Music and especially the Rifian one. Thidrin showed a great capability of the Rifian music, the same for Imetlaa...
Idir’s Rainbow Nation: Album of rap and R&B duets
Idir
What happens when veteran Kabylian star Idir teams up with the hottest young acts on the French rap and R&B scene to record a collective album? Everyone thinks it’s a clever marketing move, an attempt to cash in on the vogue for duets that has dominated the French record industry in recent years. But Idir’s project is more socially and politically committed than that. La France des couleurs, an album which gives a voice to France’s...
Said Zerouali Releases a New Album
Said Zerouali Releases a New Album
Said Zerwali, a young talented singer from Berkane, has recently emerged in the world of the Amazigh music. He has just released his second album ‘Ruh a Memmi’ (Go! my Son?). This new album is a composition of songs that touch different topics, such as Love, freedom, and social issues. “This second album is a fruit of many years of work” Says Said. ‘Ruh a Memmi’ is expected to be available...
Interview with Abdalah BOUZANDAG from Tafsut band in Agadir
Abdalah BOUZANDAG
Abdalah BOUZANDAG, is a young Amazigh artist, born in the region of the Anti Atlas Mountains, he carried out his primary studies in Tagant (a village close to Guelmim) and secondary studies in Bouizakarn (the same region) and obtained his license in 2005 at the University of Agadir, English Department. He is an ardent defender of the Amazigh identity which has always been subject to exclusion and marginalization.
In 2004 he created...