{"product_id":"multi-artistes_maghreb-k7-club-synth-rai-chaoui-staifi-1985-1997_2020_lad","title":"Maghreb k7 club synth rai, chaoui \u0026 staifi 1985-1997","description":"Les Disques Bongo Joe and Sofa Records present a compilation of music from the Maghreb, recorded and produced in Lyon, France, between 1985 and 1997. It brings together eight tracks (plus an introduction on the vinyl version and three on the CD version) originally released on audio cassette — and offers them for the first time on vinyl! The majority of the musicians featured in this compilation lived in the Rhône-Alpes region and animated its musical life, concentrated in the Guillotière neighborhood in central Lyon. The epicenter of popular Maghrebi music in the region, it was around this square that a genuine, unofficial, alternative, and dynamic scene was driven by a nebula of musicians, publishers, shopkeepers, restaurant owners, and music cafés from across the Maghreb. These songs, grappling with the daily reality of exile and the immigrant experience, speak to us of separation, uprooting, love, social injustices, and political current events, and are freely crafted under the sign of tinkering, experimentation, borrowing, and commercial opportunity.\n\nOn cassettes and in the intimacy of cafés, the musicians of the Lyon raï scene of the 80s tell of exile, sing of love and its disillusions, and chronicle their daily lives as exiles.\n\nIn Lyon, the majority of the musician population consists of men from eastern Algeria. But since the 1950s, the cafés on the slopes of Croix-Rousse or in Guillotière have brought together musicians from across the Maghreb. In the thickness of cigarette smoke, they mingle and come together to play and share everyday experiences. Essential social spaces for immigrants, these cafés played a fundamental role in the popular music of Maghrebis in France. In Lyon, the bar Le But, in the 3rd arrondissement, or those on Rue Sébastien Gryphe, in the 7th, were among them — places also interesting for business: one could get hired there for a wedding, a baptism, a gala... or a recording session. Playing together in Lyon. Because music-making there is transregional: between the different countries of the Maghreb, but also between different regional traditions. Versatile, the musicians also assimilate the influences encountered locally. Music in a situation of immigration is a school of musical cosmopolitanism! One already thinks of the cha-cha-cha or tango embellishments in certain tracks by Cheikh El Hasnaoui, or the jerks and twists of Mohamed Mazouni. Like their elders, the musicians of this compilation wonderfully make raï or staïfi tunes coexist with the aesthetic elements of disco or the rhythmic riffs of funk guitar, as Nordine Staifi does; and Salah El Annabi borrows the theme from Oxygène IV (1976) by Jean-Michel Jarre, a Lyonnais composer and essential figure in French electronic music. \"As we say back home, mixed marriages make handsome kids!\" recounts Abbès Hamou, a musician from Place du Pont. Jacques Castelli, owner of Studio 17 in Villeurbanne (a municipality bordering Lyon) where most of the cassettes of the Lyon scene were recorded, even played bass on some tracks. Continuity with their musical traditions and unbridled inventiveness, the musicians' repertoires naturally integrate the aesthetic codes and technologies of their time.","brand":"Multi-Artistes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57447846543704,"sku":null,"price":20200605.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/7640159731450.jpg?v=1780612340","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/multi-artistes_maghreb-k7-club-synth-rai-chaoui-staifi-1985-1997_2020_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}