Imarhan - Essam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nYzGz2VGU
Bandcamp: https://imarhan.bandcamp.com/album/essam
When Tuareg Poetry meets Electronic Music.
Imarhan - Essam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nYzGz2VGU
Bandcamp: https://imarhan.bandcamp.com/album/essam
When Tuareg Poetry meets Electronic Music.
Montparnasse Musique – Panter
https://amf.didiermary.fr/montparnasse-musique-panter/
Montparnasse Musique is a balance of two distinct sensibilities: Algerian-French producer Nadjib Ben Bella’s passion for raw organic beats, and South African DJ Aero Manyelo’s love of DIY synthesis in the digital realm. It’s a bold blend of fresh and processed flavours; the acoustic grit of traditional Africa combined with the pulse [...]
Tinariwen – Hoggar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-hoggar/
Released in March 2026, “Hoggar” is Tinariwen’s tenth studio album.
“Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community.”
Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between [...]
Je vous invite au voyage dans ce documentaire qui retrace mon parcours et ma rencontre avec Baly Othmani dans un film-documentaire, ci-dessous dans son intégralité (in French, with English subtitles), “Assikel, de Bali à Baly”.
Découvez le chemin parcouru de Bali, l’île d’Indonésie, à Baly, l’homme bleu…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-bali-baly-documentary/
Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM
https://amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/
“Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM” is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks, released in 2011, taken from rare 78 RPM recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD.
Many African countries appear in this compilation, edited by Jonathan Ward: [...]
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Kore, Cheikha Rimitti - Rimitti Riddim 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buAP0eU5R3I
"Algerian DJ and producer Kore samples the late Algerian raï icon Cheikha Rimitti for Raï'n'B anthem 'Rimitti Riddim 2.' Rimitti was a pioneer of Algerian women singing songs of lust in public."
Abranis – Chenar le blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abranis-chenar-le-blues/
Chenar Le Blues released in 1977 have been a big hit on Algerian national radio. This album marked the band response to the Doors.
Pioneering group of Algerian music, which was the first to fuse Berber and Western sounds, using Rock, Folk or Funk to celebrate its Kabyle heritage. The starting point of this adventure, […]
Les Amazones d’Afrique – Queens Feat. Rokia Koné
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amazones-afrique-queens-rokia-kone/
Queens Feat. Rokia Koné is a song from Amazones Power, the second studio album by West-African female musical collective Les Amazones d’Afrique, on which familiar voices like Mamani Keïta and Rokia Koné appear alongside a younger generation of singers who represent the exciting new sound of modern Africa.
El Gusto, l’orchestre d’Alger
https://amf.didiermary.fr/el-gusto-chaabi-algiers-alger/
El Gusto est le nom de ce groupe fondé dans la casbah d’Alger “il y a très très longtemps.” La guerre, puis l’indépendance dans les années 60, ont séparé les musiciens. Ce documentaire (El Gusto – Casbah Blues), sorti en 2012, montre le cheminement de leurs retrouvailles au nom de la musique Chaâbi. […]
DuOud – When the Oud goes Electro…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oud-electro-midnight-express-duoud/
DuOuD covers Giorgio Moroder‘s The Chase, theme song for the famous movie “Midnight Express”.
DuOud consists of two oud playing: Tunisian born Jean-Pierre Smadja, and Algerian born master oud player Mehdi Haddab.
Sabah Al Kheir Men زووج
https://zouj.bandcamp.com/album/sabah-al-kheir-men-mixtape
The newest wave of Rai — unofficially dubbed “way- way”.
Steve Shehan, de Bali à Baly
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-bali-baly-documentary/
Le percussionniste et compositeur Steve Shehan ( @steveshehan ) vous invite au voyage dans ce documentaire qui retrace son parcours et sa rencontre avec Baly Othmani dans un film-documentaire, ci-dessous dans son intégralité (in French, with English subtitles).
“Assikel, de Bali à Baly” retrace le chemin qu'il a parcouru de Bali, l’île d’Indonésie, à Baly, l’homme bleu… […]
Kader Japonais Feat. Reda Soussia - Rani Maghmoum (I'm depressed / under pressure)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E6wKE9MuvE
Tamikrest – Assikel
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/
The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.
Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ag Alhabib (Tinariwen)
Baly Othmani (R.I.P) – Amin Amin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-baly-othmani-awalin/
Born in 1953 in Djanet, the author, composer and singer Othman Bali (aka Baly Othmani, whose real name was Mbarek Othmani), was the initiator of a musical movement introducing the lute in traditional music and poems learnt from his mother, a reknown Tinde singer, with whom he travelled the world before he passed away in […]
Mehdi Laifaoui – Sidi El Hakem
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mehdi-laifaoui-sid-el-hakem/
Mehdi Laifaoui is an Algerian author, composer and performer. His repertoire includes original compositions and some revisited Rai standards of the 70s and 80s. His music mixes Bedouin and Trab modes, a pentatonic music that gives Algerian Rai music its uniquely African flavour.
Listen to his “Opus & Trab Project,” a repertoire rooted in the […]
Tamikrest – Awnafin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-awnafin/
An iconic Saharan Rock band, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen, and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people. It’s more Desert Rock, than Blues… […]
Tinariwen, Sulafa Elyas - Sagherat Assani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2q8g8U5als
Announcing the upcoming release of their tenth studio album, Hoggar.
https://tinariwen.bandcamp.com/album/hoggar
Acid Arab Feat. Cheb Halim – Halim Guelil
https://amf.didiermary.fr/acid-arab-feat-cheb-halim-halim-guelil/
Acid Arab have been setting fire to clubs and festivals worldwide ever since the release of their debut album “Musique de France” in 2016. From the third Acid Arab album ٣ (3)
The Parisian band unveil its new single Halim Guelil with leading Algerian singer from the 3roubiya traditional music anchored in Algerian rurality. […]
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Saint Levant - Sabah El Ward
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Musique de Fëte
https://amf.didiermary.fr/musique-de-fete/
The “Musique de Fëte” collective was started by Nowadays Records and the producer KasbaH to spotlight the electronic Eastern scene through a series of mixtapes and parties in Europe and the Maghreb.
With Musique de Fëte Vol. 4, a meticulously curated compilation by KasbaH, the artist continues his exploration of Maghreb and Middle Eastern sounds […]