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	Rachid Taha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rachid Taha (born 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is a French-Algerian musician.
		Produced by Steve Hillage, he was given full recognition by his peers thanks to his album Tékitoi in 2004, and in 2005 he has performed with Robert Plant, Patti Smith, Brian Eno.
		Taha moved from Algeria to Alsace and then Vosges, France, where his father had already emigrated, in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachid_Taha (271 words)

	Taha delivers a vivid manifesto with a groove - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Music - A&E
		Rachid Taha, the Algerian-born singer whose music melds North African rai pop and its older brother, chaabi, with funk, rock, and the pulse of techno, is -- to put it mildly -- a character.
		Thursday night at the Paradise, Taha was an apparition of seedy charisma: a crooked, irresistible figure in a garish silk shirt, leather trousers, and orange-tinted sunglasses, grooving incessantly, leering from beneath greased curls, and seducing the crowd with his half-cocked polyglot banter.
		Taha's voice is a somewhat ragged and abused instrument -- he smoked and drank copiously onstage -- but his croaking delivery had a power all its own, roughening his band's slicker workouts with the rasp of experience.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/07/09/taha_delivers_a_vivid_manifesto_with_a_groove (446 words)

	The Windish Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some strange mutation in the Taha gene over forty-six years ago created a phenomenon as rare as as an albino tiger; a musician of Arabic origin with the courage, intelligence and insight to speak the truth as he sees it, loud and direct, without the softening comforts of metaphor, parable or nostalgia.
		Rachid Taha was born in Oran, western Algeria, and spent his first ten years in the Algerian town of Sig, famous for its olives.
		Rachid and Hillage skilful restoration work was rewarded with the ballistic success of 'Ya Rayah', a brilliant 21st century ressurrection of a classic song, which broke into clubland and rode the charts in France and far off places like Lebanon and Colombia.
	www.windishagency.com /bio_rachidtaha.htm (1497 words)

	RFI Musique - - Rachid TAHA
		Rachid Taha was born in Oran, a coastal town in Algeria, in 1958.
		Taha performed tracks from his new album at the "Fiesta des Suds" festival in Marseilles at the end of October and brought the house down when he appeared in Paris at the Elysée-Montmartre on November 8th.
		Taha also included a poignant tribute to Joe Strummer (the late frontman of The Clash), recording his own version of the Clash classic "Rock The Casbah." Following the release of the album, the rebel rock star took to the road, performing a series of concerts across France.
	www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/biographie/biographie_6071.asp (2149 words)

	Rachid Taha: Rock 'n' Rai by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rachid Taha is determined to pluck the rhythm and energy of North African dance music out of the bazaar — and into the rock and pop charts.
		Enter Algerian-born singer/songwriter Rachid Taha — who is determined to pluck the rhythm and energy of North African dance music out of the bazaar and into the rock and pop charts.
		The 44-year-old Taha insists that his music is not rai — but, instead, a fusion of this regional music with harsher sounds of mainstream rock and punk and the energy modern dance music.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2646 (1018 words)

	Review - Rachid Taha: Made In Medina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rachid Taha was influenced heavily by a form of music called Rai, which originated around 1900 in Western Algeria but was really developed in Oran in the 20s.
		I only know that Rai music is a melding of Bedouin folk music and romantic Arabic poetry, and that Taha has taken this form and brought it forward in time and given it a combination of acoustic and electric instruments and made it danceable in the modern sense.
		Taha's voice is usually urgent, his frantic pleas - of whatever it is he's saying - echoing off into the ether as the bass and drums pound it on its way.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-august01/reviews/review_rachid_taha.html (297 words)

	BBC - Awards for World Music 2006 - Rachid Taha
		Taha sees himself as a 'permanent immigrant' in France, which his family moved to when he was ten.
		On stage, Taha is a feral and formidable presence, his small stature contrasting almost comically with the huge gutteral growl he unleashes.
		The godfather of north african rock is Rachid taha.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2006/a4wm_rachid.shtml (577 words)

	BBC - World Review - Rachid Taha, Tekitoi?
		The record, and Taha's whole career, is a marvelous reminder that the Arab world has its own liberal humanists who are excited to engage in a conversation with Western culture in which neither side is presumed to be superior or deficient.
		Rachid Taha is one of the most genuine political musical acts around at the moment.
		Rachid Taha is probably the most exciting performer in the world right now, with his mix of rock, rai, electronica, and club music.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/world/reviews/taha_tekitoi.shtml (2621 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Music Cover : Rachid Taha
		In that respect, Taha is particularly suited to tackle "Rock the Casbah." The song's lyrics specifically target fundamentalist Muslim heavies and their vicious repression of music, rock or otherwise (a nasty tradition going back centuries).
		On the latter note, it should be pointed out that in '98, Taha joined the bill at the famous 1,2,3 Soleil show in Paris, a concert before 15,000 that triangulated the scruffy troublemaker with Khaled and Faudel, the elder statesman and young smoothy of raï, respectively.
		Taha is one of a number of current acts that answer the question Strummer proposed with the turn-of-the-'80s efforts of the Clash.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/022405/cover_music.html (1305 words)

	World Music Central - The Who and What of Rachid Taha
		The title of Rachid Taha's latest album translates as "Who Are You?", though "what are you?" might well be the question listeners would want to ask of Taha.
		When I first listened to Tekitoi, the song that really grabbed me was the makes-perfect-sense version of the Clash's "Rock the Casbah," a fitting nod to a band (and their late frontman Joe Strummer) categorized as punk but having the good sense to make some trailblazing explorations into global sounds.
		Taha is by no means a technically perfect singer, but his growling, urgent style, punctuated by rolled r's and raw phrasing, is perfectly suited to what he does.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20050304023922319 (445 words)

	Amazon.com: Diwan: Music: Rachid Taha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Taha is clearly familiar with ancient Middle Eastern melodies, but he's also comfortable with the dance rhythms of Parisian nightclubs.
		Rachid Taha defies all attempts to pigeon hole him, and I think that is one thing to keep in mind with this album.
		Rachid Taha simply is a superb musician, and you'll be alot more comfortable listening to him than figuring out what he is like.
	www.amazon.com /Diwan-Rachid-Taha/dp/B000007NTS (1238 words)

	Rachid Taha: Tékitoi - PopMatters Music Review
		A European, an Arab, and a Muslim, Taha nevertheless embraces the straightshooting, unabashed political outspokenness of western musicians like, say, the late Joe Strummer, describing himself at one time as "a North American who thinks that the world is one land and that the Promised Land is promised to everyone".
		Taha's solo career began with the release of Barbès (1991), and it's seen a steady ascent in both notoriety (at home) and fame (with fans in much of the world) since then.
		The footage features interviews with Taha and his bandmembers (Hillage is discussed but not featured) and several live snippets, most too brief and/or too poorly recorded, sound-wise, to convey much of a sense for Taha's shows.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/taharachid-tekitoi.shtml (1232 words)

	Amazon.com: Made in Medina: Music: Rachid Taha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rachid Taha is new to me; his style of music, Rai, is not played very much in the U.S. Basically, it's an internationally-evolved music originating with the traditional styles of North Africa (especially Algeria) as transformed by various interbreedings with Western blues, traditional, and folk.
		Rachid also proves he remembers the days of old with a nod to the sheiks of rai from the 1930s with the tender nuances on Ho Cherie Cherie (Oh Dearest Dearest), a beautiful tune coiled around the gorgeous strains of violins.
		Rachid might be Algerian by birth, he's got a French passport but the universal context of his music brings a startling new dimension to the appeal of rock music outside the usual.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000584Y0?v=glance (1741 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Rachid Taha Tekitoi Cd Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The last time Algerian rocker Rachid Taha made waves with a cover song, it was banned on French radio.
		Though Rachid's mix of sounds is one-of-a-kind, it's not surprising given his life path.
		On Tékitoi, Rachid embraces all streams from his past, with the hard-edged punk foundation and everything from a full Egyptian orchestra on the song ³Safi² to the use of oud (Arabic lute) and darbuka (hourglass drum) on every track.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/05rachid.html (663 words)

	Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: RACHID TAHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Taha’s band had been experimenting with mixing different elements of funk and North African sounds and rhythms into punk songs.
		Taha isn’t convinced this is real, either—he’s spent his 47 years grabbing the spirit of rai music and throwing it into a wood chipper to watch the pieces fly.
		These are some of the less dangerous stereotypes Taha faces in a time when most Americans’ exposure to Arab cultures is limited to pissed-off fundamentalists, terrorists in masks or bleary-eyed villagers trying to reconstruct their bombed-out town under the watchful eyes of our Marines.
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/rachid_taha (808 words)

	Taha, Rachid
		Rachid's new album Diwan 2 is released on 16th October.
		That's a struggle that Rachid Taha has been fighting for the past two decades and more, ever since he was a tear-away punk immigrant from Algeria gobbing metaphorically and no doubt literally at the good burghers of Lyon in France.
		Above all Rachid Taha is a great showman, delivering rude-boy witticisms and hilarious insights with sweaty passion whilst his band fire off raucous rock riffs and snakey Arabic melodies.
	www.wrasserecords.com /artists/info/65.html (217 words)

	Medina Modern / French-Algerian singer-songwriter Rachid Taha's immigrant songs
		Taha and his full band will stop in SF at Bimbo's 365 Club Saturday, July 21, during a short tour of the states.
		Taha's blend of Arab, pop and dance music along with his politically and poetically charged lyrics provide an easy entrée to people unfamiliar with classical Arab forms.
		Taha got his first taste of show business after his family moved to France in 1968.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2001/07/16/taha.DTL (861 words)

	Rachid Taha Photo Gallery, High Quality Pictures, Biography & Wallpapers ÕæÑ ÔÈ ÑÔíÏ Øå (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		‘1-2-3 Soleil’, the live recording of Taha’s epoch-making encounter with rai rulers Rachid Taha and Faudel at the Bercy stadium in Paris in 1998, was a million seller which hoisted the name of Rachid Taha overground in one neat strike.
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		Rachid Taha ÔÈ ÑÔíÏ Øå : mobile ãæÈíá
	www.3arabiaphoto.com /singers/rachid_taha.html (1583 words)

	Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rachid Taha a été un des précurseurs de la scène raï française.
		Rachid Taha est né le 18 septembre 1958 à Oran, berceau géographique du raï.
		Rachid Taha est entré en studio pour enregistrer son nouvel album, une tournée est prévue.
	blogs.nofrag.com /bArjo^stoo/2005/jan/19/2742-rachid-taha-rock-el-casbah (540 words)

	Rachid Taha - dublin - music
		Rachid Taha, Algerian world music star, plays Vicar Street on Saturday, the 5th of November.
		Rachid Taha was born in the Gulf of Oran in Algeria and relocated to France with his family as a child.
		Rachid Taha's stance against racism, hypocrisy and nostalgic ghetto complacency, has earned him a fearsome reputation in France, North Africa and the Arabic World.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/F736EA44-681D-455A-AC52BDDDC6FC3207.htm (337 words)

	Rachid Taha : Diwan - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The sophomore release from Algerian singer Rachid Taha.
		The album finishes with a stretch of slightly more serious songs, with a number based on the Algerian war for independence and the torture endured by its prisoners, a political song from a Moroccan group, a basic rai number in French pidgin, and a song from the frustrated youth of Algeria.
		This is something of a North African tour-de-force, as Taha moves from one style to another, always partially based in the rai tradition, but always expanding to other styles in the process.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,345270,00.html (330 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| CD: Rachid Taha, Tekitoi
		Rachid Taha has always argued that North African styles and rock are closely linked, and this is his most convincing evidence to date: a furious, declamatory album that is firmly rooted in his native Algeria but has the sparse vitality of a punk classic.
		Elsewhere, Taha's blend of anger and angst has been distilled into a set of songs that match crunching guitar chords, simple riffs and angry French and Arabic lyrics with subtle, wailing flourishes of North African embellishment.
		Steve Hillage has been Taha's producer for the best part of a decade now, and he, along with Brian Eno, helped write the music for the most powerful, original and direct rock-and-rai fusion album that he has released, ranging from the chugging, insistent H'Asbu-Hum to the pounding and thoughtful title track.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1306003,00.html (177 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Nov. 22, 2004 -- Rock 'n' Roll, Arab Style - 1
		Twenty-two years after the late guitarist and his band, the Clash, released the classic single Rock the Casbah, Franco-Algerian singer Rachid Taha has taken the title literally — with a cover of the 1982 hit that blends ringing electric guitars with Arab woodwinds and strings to give it a distinctively north African flavor.
		Despite some commercial success, Taha's mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation and beats, and his habit of singing in Arabic, has often led critics to classify his records as fusion or world music, a label that confounds him.
		Taha makes lavish use of traditional Arab instruments like the oud lute, and string and wind sections, driven forward by electric bass and guitars, rock backbeats, and even the odd hip-hop influence.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901041122-782077,00.html (884 words)

	NPR : Rachid Taha, Blending Beats and Cultures
		Rachid Taha mixes elements of Algerian rai music with hip-hop and reggae.
		World Cafe, November 30, 2005 · Algerian and French musician Rachid Taha uses sounds from rock, hip-hop, dance and reggae to create unique dance tracks.
		That blend of musical cultures reflects Taha's own multinational background: born in the Gulf of Oran, he moved to France with his family as a child.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5032077 (206 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Rachid Taha, Tékitoi (Wrasse) - Press Release
		Asking ‘who the hell are you’ is part of the healing process.” The second voice is provided by Christian Olivier of popular French band Les Tetes Raides, known for their poetic, intelligent radical music.
		Rachid describes his latest album as having a head, body, and legs.
		Upon first listen, Rachid’s rock instrumentation and electronic beats may appear to be the most Western element of his music.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/199.cfm (727 words)

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