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a l b u m tΘkitoi?
l a b e l universal/barclay
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r i p d a t e 18-03-2005
s t r e e t d a t e 30-09-2004
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Rachid Taha is often thrown in the same bin as Khaled, his fellow
Algerian and practitioner of Rai, the Algerian dance-pop hybrid that
crosses Western funk with traditional Arabic sounds. But, as Taha's
startling new Tekitoi proves, grouping the pair together is kind of
like saying David Bowie and James Taylor both wrote songs in the
1970s--true, but so what? Taha, an Algerian living in Paris, owes as
much to the late 1970s' punk movement (witness his tongue-in-cheek
Arabic translation of the Clash's "Rock El Casbah") and Western
electro-industrial outfits like Ministry or even Nine Inch Nails as
he does to traditional Algerian music, which means "Tekitoi" snarls
more than most Rai albums. Still, rai and Arabic music purists might
be surprised at how much they like this album. For every crunchy
guitar riff on tunes like "Winta" and "Tekitoi?" ("Who Are You?")
there are touches like the delicate mandolute (a cross between a
guitar and an oud) on Meftuh' or the Egyptian string orchestra that
shows up on nearly every track, making this that rare release that
straddles the line between East and West without compromising to
either.
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What does it say of music when the most spellbinding artist in rock
is a fire breathing Algerian based in France? And what does it say of
the post 9/11 world when most of the world doesn't even know? Their
loss, Tekitoi is the best album of 2005 (even though it came out in
2004). On his cover of The Clash's Rock the Casbah, the casbah rocks
back-- harder that those limeys could have ever imagine, ditching the
former's tentative funk for a devasting body quaking groove--and
that's the worst song on the album! Of all the recent rai records
this is the only one to come close to fulfilling the music's original
rock and roll promise. And how. "Safi" pulls off the impossible:
marrying Missy Elliot to Nirvana, then surpassing both. Indeed
Tekitoi may be 2005's only true punk rock record. Furious with both
Islamic fundamentalism and American paranoia he rages on like Primal
Scream with a purpose. "Ask them Why," he yells to everybody and
nobody in one song. "Who the @#$% are you!" he bellows in another (In
Arabic and French, of course). Who said one has to mellow with age?
And then there's the music. Taha had always flirted with punk, rai,
funk, and techno but here he detonates with all at once. Angry and
Proud, with music to burn, Tekitoi is most visceral music you will
hear all year.
...and remember: s t a y f u f f e n s f o r l i f e
t r a c k l i s t
tΘkitoi 03:08
rock el casbah 04:34
lli fat mat! 05:48
h'asbu-hum 05:07
safi 05:20
meftuh' 05:05
winta 04:39
nah'seb 05:32
dima 05:18
mamachi 04:49
shuf 05:08
stenna 06:04
ya rayah (edit version) 06:15
voila voila (spanish version) 06:02
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