Folk songs and folk dance music. Chiefly, Arabic words. Program notes by Peter Throckmorton on container. Performer(s): Performed by Algerian folk musicians. From the heights of our mountains.--The ...

French-Algerian musician Rachid Taha, known for fusing Algerian raï folk music with rock, has died. He was 59. Taha died of a heart attack at his home in the Lilas suburb of Paris, according to a ...

Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that ...

I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

Egypt's city of Ismailia hosts the 25th edition of the Ismaïlia International Festival for Folk Arts, with performances across multiple venues throughout the governorate. The festival runs from 24 to ...

Khaled Louma began his career with the band T34, and later with Icosiums in the 1980s, before establishing himself as a central figure in Algerian rock music, leaving his mark with songs such as ...