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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

In France and Algeria Sept. 17 was circled on the calendar and engraved on many a mind. That is the day when the U.N. General Assembly gathers again in Manhattan, and last week both sides in the ...

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 ...