I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

As concert venues go, it's not exactly Carnegie Hall. A few dozen folding chairs are set up in a courtyard, in front of a modest elevated stage. A half-dozen musicians are crowded around a table, ...

Toe-tapping and infectious on emotional and intellectual levels, "El Gusto" is Algerian-born Safinez Bousbia's heartwarming tribute to her native country's lost egalitarianism as much as to the ...

Conflict can often inspire great art, but when a country descends into chaos it often takes down its culture with it. Yet despite the fact that Algeria spent most of the 20th century either colonized ...

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Toe-tapping and infectious on emotional and intellectual levels, “El Gusto” is Algerian-born Safinez Bousbia’s heartwarming tribute to her native country’s lost egalitarianism as much as to the ...