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HAROUN RACHID

Haroun Rachid - Nights Of Algeria - U1CD-2018-2
Haroun Rachid - Musique Classique Algerienne - U1CD-2010-2
"Very authentic!" (TIP Magazin, Berlin)
"Essential amphetamine-free medicine for all!" (German Rolling Stone)
"When one hears this CD with its inviting and open sound, one feels as if one is at home in the Mediterranean. Beautiful!" (Jazzthetik)
Andalucian music is the testimony of a multi-cultural society in the Spain of the Middle Ages. Between the 8th and the 15th century the Iberian peninsula was part of the Islamic world and, under the Moor's sway, Oriental and Occidental cultures cross-pollinated. This took place mainly at the music-school of Ziryab in Cordoba, creating an independent Andalucian culture with its basis in Dshahiliyya, the pre-Islamic Arabic music tradition. Europe was not the only territory influenced by these cultural developments - with the retreat of the Moors, these musical developments reached north-west Africa. This musical school gave rise to today's three styles of Andalucian music:

the Flamenco of South Spain, the most popular style of Andalucian music
the Arabic-Andalucian tradition, cultivated today in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
Jewish-Andalucian music, found in all Jewish communities in the Arabic world

Rachid Haroun was born in Algier in 1965. He grew up in the musician's area of "Djenane El Mabrouk". From the age of seven he attended the Belfort-El Harrach music school. At first, he studied the snitra (mandolin) with Rezki Harbit and Hacène Ben Choubène. Later he changed his main instrument to the kamendja (violin). At the same time his singing voice was trained.
His teamwork with the classical musicians of Algiers and his countless concerts in most cities of Algeria made him known all over his country. At the music schools of Essenducia and El Fakhardija, he enlarged his knowledge of the Arabic-Andalucian musical legacy. At Noureddine Saoudi he learned the art of improvisation of noubats.
Today Rachid Haroun lives in Berlin. Here he has won many friends with his live concerts. For his first solo-CD "Musique Classique Algerienne" (U1 2010-2) he recorded songs from the long history of the Arabic-Andalucian music. On his second CD "Nights Of Algeria" you can find contemporary songs written by his brother Moussa as well as traditional songs popular on all coasts of the Mediterrean Sea.

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