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Souad Massi Album:
DebGenre:
World Fusion
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Released:
2004
| Title | Listen | Buy | |
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| 1. | Ya Kelbi (Oh! My Heart) | ||
| 2. | Ghir Enta (I Only Love You) | ||
| 3. | Ech Edani (I Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With You) | ||
| 4. | Yemma (Mummy, I Lie To You) | ||
| 5. | Yawlidi (My Little Boy) | ||
| 6. | Le Bien et Le Mal (Good and Evil) | ||
| 7. | Houria (Freedom) | ||
| 8. | Deb (Heart Broken) | ||
| 9. | Moudja (The Wave) | ||
| 10. | Passe Le Temps (As Time Goes By) | ||
| 11. | Theghri (I Send An S.O.S.) | ||
| 12. | Bel El Madhi (The Gate Of The Past) | ||
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Review:
Algerian-born singer/songerwriter Souad Massi made her international breakthrough in 2004 with Deb (Heartbroken). The album was a tour-de-force of smart songwriting, deft arrangements and wrenching emotionalism. Massi, who lives in France, mined both her personal life and her homeland's tragic history to create songs where the personal is painfully intertwined with the political—earning her comparisons to everyone from Joan Baez to Tracey Chapman to Lauryn Hill. But Massi is her own woman, and she defies easy comparisons, just as her songs veer away from standard-issue rai and Algerian pop into whole new territories. Deb has a strong Arab-Andalusian flavor, with ouds frequently playing against flamenco guitar flourishes, while Massi's driving arrangements provide a rocking counterpoint to her breathlessly confessional lyrics. This is post-Colonial pop at its finest, and Massi blends the diverse musics of her adopted homeland (a little soukous here, a little chanson there) into a new sound all her own.—Tom Pryor — |
