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Rock El Casbah - Rachid Taha


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Rock El Casbah" is just the latest stunt in a career that has been devoted to provocation and musical cross-pollination. Mr. Taha, who has lived in Paris for two decades, is a leader of the current generation of rai musicians, but he is more politically confrontational and sonically adventurous than suave international stars like Khaled and Cheb Mami. To even label Mr. Taha a rai singer is a bit misleading; his fierce blend of rai, arena rock, electronica and agitprop is a genre unto itself - a kind of postmodern North African dance-punk - and his new album is his most ambitious: a suite of songs about the chaos that has enveloped the world since Sept. 11, 2001. "Tékitoi" is among the most eloquent musical responses to that day and its aftermath, certainly the most explicit to emerge from the Arab world. Asked to explain the album's genesis, he said, "I dreamed of singing my nightmares."

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