in the mid 80s this was my first encounter with music from arabic speaking countries. a friend of mine had the record; i copied it to cassette. unluckily this tape suffered the same fate as so many of my favourite cassettes back then: it was devoured by a vicious cassette player in my car.

so it took from the late 80s until the 2020s to find it again. i still haven't found the complete disk from back then, but of course i can't remember its name. but i recognized at least its eponymous title:

N'selfik
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#Fadela - Étoile Du Raï LP on #TorsoRecords 1987
https://youtu.be/Q8e4UjoPIlc
https://youtu.be/Hf2VHSwmty4
https://youtu.be/aAEkHPAedXE
https://youtu.be/pPu_i-nQ66s

way back in the eighties this song was my first encounter with arabic language music. a friend had this one record of fadela and i had a copy on tape. this tape stayed with me for more than a decade and eventually got eaten by a vicious tape recorder, like it happend with nearly all my tapes, particularly the precious ones. i then even forgot the name, all i remembered was "it was something with f .. or d .. or so" ... and that it was a kind of new wave rai ...

when the internet came up and youtube popped into existence i developed the idea that i could search for this music online. and after several attempts i finally made it 2 years ago. but what i had found was "just" a lp, and i failed at digitizing it ..

but again youtube came to the rescue and so here is my saturday night music ...

and i still have absolutely no idea what they are singing about, it just sounds as great today as it had back then ...

#musik #music #musique #fadela #rai



Chaba Fadela - N'sel fik
by Oriental Music on YouTube