Nassima Discography of CDs

Nassima music CDs Liner Note Authors: Jérôme Samuel Rfi; Nassima. Personnel: Nassima (vocals, chant, mandola); Mohammed Abdennour (guitar, tres, banjo, mandola); Ioannis Vlashos (guitar); Hamid Djouhri (oud); Khadija El Afrit, Hend Zouari (qanoun); Kamel Labbaci (flute); Rabah Khalfa (bongos, bendir, tar, percussion). ...

Nassima discography Translator: Dominique Bach. Personnel: Rachid Brahim Djelloul (vocals, violin). Recording information: Studio "Guimick".

Nassima songs Nassima's Andalusian Music from Algiers is a fascinating trip into Arab-Andalusian music in the form of the san'a tradition, and the performance of an entire nuba sika. It's a vocal and instrumental suite in five sections, the tempo gradually increasing in the last two. The sung poems, or muwashshahat. For the complexity and formality of the form which is quite ancient -- dating back to the Islamic conquest of Spain -- it's easy on the ear, and at times quite beautiful (such as the vocal line of "Ishtikhbar," where singer Nassima shows the huge quality of expression in her voice). The ensemble playing is spectacular, and the mix of instruments -- ranging from oud to lute, mandola, violin, and ney flute -- makes for a real Mediterranean fusion of Europe and the Maghreb. It's fabulous music, if somewhat demanding -- perhaps the closest analogy is light opera, although it's far more rhythmically oriented. Originally a male preserve, Nassima has made san'a her own, helping to preserve a strong oral tradition. ~ Chris Nickson

Nassima CD discography Contrary to what some believe, the concept of multiculturalism is neither a recent nor a uniquely American phenomenon. Six hundred years before the Americas were "discovered" and forever altered by European explorers and armies, a profoundly multicultural society flourished in Moorish Spain. Africans, Arabs, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and Europeans -- in tow with a panoply of beliefs, languages, and traditional arts -- shared the Andalusian Peninsula. By way of this heterogeneous cohabitation, a new multicultural musical genre was born. Known as Arabo-Andalusian music, this genre has a history that began in seventh century Baghdad and flourished in the hands of Persian musician and theorist Ziryab during the ninth century in Cordoba, Spain. Due to the Christian re-conquest of the Muslim occupied peninsula and the subsequent Muslim exodus to the Maghreb beginning in the tenth century and winding up around the 15th century, Arabo-Andalusian music continued to burgeon (to this day) in a number of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian cities. On this particular release, La Nouba Dil, the lauded Algerian vocalist Nassima presents what is considered to be one of the most difficult Arabo-Andalusian nawbat, or poetic-classical suite: the nawba dhil. Originally intended to be experienced between 3 and 4AM, the nawba dhil begins in 4/4 time, moves into a slippery 5 1/2 time, and then winds up into a cyclical 6/8 time. ...