La canción de la semana #910

...is Guérison by Amina Cadelli, better known as Flèche Love. This song appears on the Swiss-Algerian artist's new album of the same name.

La canción de la semana #657

...is Allouane by Valencia-based trio NES featuring Nesrine Belmokh (vocals, cello), Matthieu Saglio (cello) and David Gadea (percussion).

La canción de la semana #419

...is Caminaré Por Babylon featuring Bacha Ortiz, from 2012 album Everyday Salama by Algerian musician, songwriter and record producer Sarazino.

La canción de la semana #248

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

This week's song is Malika by Maurice El Médioni, from his 2006 album Descarga Oriental.

On first thought, one might be hard-pressed to find a common ground between Algerian raï music and Latin jazz. But for the pianist Maurice el Medioni, an Algerian-born Jew who left his home for France decades ago as an exile, and the Cuban-born, New York-based percussionist Roberto Rodriguez, the link connecting North Africa and Cuba is a direct one — by way of Spanish Andalusia.

La canción de la semana #168

This week, I chose a flamenco song, even though sung mostly in Arabic: Ech Edani by Algerian singer, songwriter and guitarist Souad Massi, from her second album Deb ("Heartbroken").

La canción de la semana #152

For me, discovery of this year was Algerian-French singer-songwriter Soha. Her debut album D'ici et d'ailleurs (actually recorded in 2007) is sung mostly in French. However, the opening song, Tourbillon (Serre-moi fort si tu m'aimes) (audio | video | lyrics), is a beautiful mix of French and Spanish.

Dime el amor, dime el cielo dis moi la vie et comment vont les gens dime el sol, dime el verano dis moi le monde et des droles d'habitants dis moi le jour, le depart las cosas que valen esperar dis moi la joie, dis moi l'espoir mais ne dis jamais au revoir...

¡Feliz año nuevo, amig@s!

Kirill