Algeria music reviews

This is nice belly dance and Arabian groove.

This music gives a warm wlecome in the not so known world of sufi. A beautiful voice and surprising melodies.

Margo, the reason why some of the tracks on this newly released album are mis-mastered is because these tracks were copied directly off of Khaled's way too old tracks that were recorded in his home studeo in cassettes back in Algeria in the early 80s. They are not professional, state-of-the-art productions or recordings. But back in the days they were like top notch. Remeber, studeo productions in Arab countries in the early 80s was extremely poor. However, there has been some drastic imporvements. Why Khaled to decided to re-produce his junky old tracks? We really don't know. But may be he wanted to offer his fans an idea about how rough his early days were.

This pertains to the recently released three-CD set, "SpiritofRai." It includes some awesome "Cheb Khaled" songs - and I mean AWESOME! However, a few tracks were mis-mastered; they are either too slow or too fast, and make Khaled's voice sound really bizarre. In fact, it's hard to listen to those tracks. One of them is a live cut of Ya-RAYI; it's just plain bad. Another "nightmare" track that's included - Alech Tomouni. Anyway, Khaled seems to be releasing a number of "cheaply engineered" compilations this year. This one was pressed in Portugal. Let the buyer beware.