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Artist: Khaled
Rating:
Release Date: 1991 08
Total Time: 48:58
Type: Lyrics are included with the album
Genre: World

Review

Dropping the "Cheb" from his name symbolizes the start of a new phase for Khaled, one that signaled his quest to expand beyond his rai roots or, more accurately, to add rai as another element in the global dancefloor mix. After his big production collaboration with fellow Algerian Safy Boutella on Kutche, he takes the plunge to directly court Western audiences by enlisting Don Was and Michael Brook to split the production duties.

The opening "Didi" sets the tone, with a catchy Arabic synth melody and punchy Algerian percussion rolling underneath a funky groove and a King Curtis/Clarence Clemons-flavored sax solo. "Mauvais Sang" starts with the classic Algerian vocal/keyboard intro and gets more complex as melodic motifs are woven in. But the rhythm is driven by keyboard bass blats and a drum machine, and the instrumental break features sax over thumb-pop funk bass and James Brown scratch-rhythm guitar before the final call and response between David McMurray's throaty R&B sax and Mustapha Kada's Arabic keyboards. To say that's a blueprint of what Khaled wants to accomplish here is true on one level, but ignores the range and variety of the material. Algerian homeboys Kada (keyboards) and Mohsein Chentouf (derbouka) are on every song and Khaled himself plays keyboards, accordion, oud, and bendir on the Brook-produced tracks. Reggae pops into the bubbling rhythm undercurrent on "Ragda"; "Sbabi" works violin against an atmospheric, Robert Fripp-like lead guitar over Khaled's voice and a funky, chunky groove. With its near-flamenco acoustic guitar and accordion, "Wahrane" has a French café feel, but "El Ghatli" and "Harai Harai" take it all the way home to Algerian tradition. "Ne M'en Voulez Pas" is sung in French, with more café accordion set against organ, bass solo, and clattering percussion, and winds up in a near-go-go beat. The song is too busy and never quite makes up its mind what it wants to be, but it's a unique, invigorating ride, which may be the best capsule summary for Khaled. Some artists are born to try this kind of cultural crossover, and in the context of rai, Khaled is both trailblazer and standard-bearer. ~ Don Snowden, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Didi	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(5:02)
El Arbi	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(3:35)
Wahrane	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(4:27)
Ragda	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(3:51)
El Ghatli	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(4:07)
Liah Liah	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(4:21)
Mauvais Sang	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(6:13)
Braya	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Cheb Khaled	(4:46)
Ne M'En Voulez Pas		Khalèd	(4:57)
Sbabi	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(4:05)
Harai Harai	Khaled Hadj Brahim	Khalèd	(3:57)

Credits

Don Was (Keyboards), Don Was (Bass), John Berry, Jr. (Trumpet), David McMurray (Saxophone), James Pinker (Drums), Afid Saidi (Drums), Sir Harry Bowens (Vocals (Background)), Carmen Rizzo (Engineer), Phil Delire (Mixing), Alma de Noche (Guitar), Mustapha Kada (Keyboards), Steve Deutsch (Engineer), Arnould Massart (Organ), DJ Oum (Percussion), David Daoud Coleman (Electric Cello), Lee Manning (Assistant Engineer), Didier Lockwood Group (Engineer), Arnould Massart (Piano), Youssef Chebaan (Violin), David Coleman (Oud), Randy Jacobs (Bass), Randy Jacobs (Guitar), Khalèd (Bendir), Collen Reynolds (Project Coordinator), Mohsein Chentouf (Darbouka), Eric Fernandez (Guitar), Arnold McCuller (Vocals (Background)), Michael Brook (Guitar), Brett Swain (Assistant Engineer), Rik Pekkonen (Mixing Assistant), Greg Smith (Sax (Baritone)), Khalèd (Performer), David Coleman (Cello), Willy N'For (Bass), Don Was (Producer), Michael Brook (Percussion), Doug Sax (Mastering), Sweet Pea Atkinson (Vocals (Background)), Hélene Guétary (Photography), Eric Rudd (Assistant Engineer), Khalèd (Accordion), David Daoud Coleman (Oud), DJ Oum (Engineer), Antoine Leroux-Dhuys (Design), Steve Deutsch (Programming), Michael Brook (Bass), Michael Brook (Mixing), Greg "Frosty" Smith (Sax (Baritone)), Khalèd (Vocals), Abderaseque Hilal (Violin), Khalèd (Keyboards), Rik Pekkonen (Mixing), Marsha Burns (Project Coordinator), Cheb Khaled (Performer), Michael Brook (Producer), Benjamin Muhoberac (Keyboards), Bill Bergman (Sax (Tenor)), Khalèd (Oud)

Mixed Opinions on Khaled's Westernness

To make the album Khaled, Khaled signed with the French record label Barclay Records and sought out American record producer Don Was. Upon meeting with Was, Khaled "asked (him) to incorporate American R&B -- to Americanise the music," a request which Was obliged by combining Khaled's live musicians with loops and beats from his computer (a Macintosh) and a keyboard. ^[1] The result of these sessions in the studio that combined Khaled's rai with Was' R&B, was, according to Was, "pretty wild music." ^[2]

The response from his Arab fans was mixed. Many of the more conservative Arabs stopped buying his records and going to his concerts after Khaled offended them with his liberal Western-influenced words and actions in interviews and on television, not to mention with his deliberate "(selling) out to Western commercialism" through the changes in his music.^[3] However, Khaled's decision to mix his traditional style of Algerian raï with the slick production and Western beat patterns of American R&B stood out to some of his other fans as new, cool, and revolutionary and also made him plenty of new fans. The music from the album, especially "Didi," began to garner play in important places like French nightclubs and on Hip Hip Hourah, and the album began to sell well throughout France. The French rapper Malek Sultan of IAM even goes so far as to call Khaled the "Public Enemy Arabe," which demonstrates the respect that the French hip-hop scene has for the first raï artist to successfully cross over into the French pop market.^[4]

References

^ Paul Tingen. "Khaled Algerian Rai Music." Originally Published in SOS Magazine, October 1997. [1]
^ Paul Tingen. "Khaled Algerian Rai Music." Originally Published in SOS Magazine, October 1997. [2]
^ Gross, Joan, David McMurray, and Ted Swedenburg. "Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities." Diaspora 3:1 (1994): 21. [Reprinted in The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, ed. by Jonathan Xavier and Renato Rosaldo, 1
^ Gross, Joan, David McMurray, and Ted Swedenburg. "Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities." Diaspora 3:1 (1994): 22. [Reprinted in The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, ed. by Jonathan Xavier and Renato Rosaldo, 1

Khaled

Review

Tracks

Credits

Mixed Opinions on Khaled's Westernness

Track listing

References

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