Mohamed El Anka - The Great Master Of Algerian Chaabi / (2CD) / MLP Music [New]

Description: | Mohamed El Anka - The Grand Master of Algerian Chaabi | Label: MLP music | The chaâbi genre, comparable to blues, Argentine tango or Portuguese fado, was inaugurated at the beginning of the 20th century by Cheikh Mustapha Nador, who died in 1926, who knew how to capture and build on the heritage of melhoun (magnificent poetry from the Southern Morocco, a sort of Maghreb oral literature). It experienced its true hours of glory at the dawn of the 30s and 40s under the leadership of Aït Ouarab Mohand Ouyidir Halo, nicknamed El-Anka (the phoenix), born May 20, 1970 in the casbah of Algiers, at 4 , rue Timbuktu, within a modest family from Kabylie. El-Hadj, a title bestowed on him after a pilgrimage to Mecca, first “struck the târ (tambourine fitted with small cymbals) within the Nador orchestra before striking out on his own. Endowed with unusual foresight, El-Anka founded his reputation by attacking, as an urbanized Kabyle, this bastion deemed inaccessible that was urban courtesan music, long the preserve of the wealthy classes. El-Anka, conductor of Radio Algiers, at the time of its creation, following the Second World War, and professor at the municipal conservatory of Algiers from 1955, had performed more than 360 so-called qacidate poems, spread over nearly 130 records, including ten 78T records recorded in 1932. He made his last appearance in 1976 during a wedding party given in honor of the grandson of his master Sheikh Nador, as if to complete the circle.The chaâbi genre, comparable to blues, Argentine tango or Portuguese fado, was inaugurated at the beginning of the 20th century by Cheikh Mustapha Nador, who died in 1926, who knew how to capture and build on the heritage of melhoun (magnificent poetry from the Southern Morocco, a sort of Maghreb oral literature). It experienced its true hours of glory at the dawn of the 30s and 40s under the leadership of Aït Ouarab Mohand Ouyidir Halo, nicknamed El-Anka (the phoenix), born May 20, 1970 in the casbah of Algiers, at 4 , rue Timbuktu, within a modest family from Kabylie. El-Hadj, a title bestowed on him after a pilgrimage to Mecca, first “struck the târ (tambourine fitted with small cymbals) within the Nador orchestra before striking out on his own. Endowed with unusual foresight, El-Anka f

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