Live (Dig) [Live]

Rachid Taha | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Ark 21
• ASIN: B000062Y9H
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #260,239 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > World Music > Africa > Algeria

Track Listings

1. Menfi

2. Nokta

3. Ida

4. Ya Rayah

5. Medina

6. Bent Sahra

7. Barra Barra

8. Foqt Foqt

9. Ala Jalkoum

10. Voila Voila

11. Garab

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Led Zep meets Rai in a dark Brussels club, March 6, 2003

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m_noland "m_noland" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live (Dig) (Audio CD)

Postcard from Rachid Taha's recent world tour. The Led Zep reference is not a joke - he gives them a shout out in "Foqt Foqt" and indeed this music is closer to rock than to rai. Aurally, the sound, featuring Taha's declamatory baritone and the Francois Delfin's hard edged lead guitar, reminds me as nothing so much as late 1970s/early 1980s John Cale, but with derbouka (percussion), lute, and keyboard synths providing the Arabic orchestral string parts. Steve Hillage adds a second guitar on six cuts, and on some cuts ("Medina," "Voila Voila") the band, in effect, plays techno live. Quite a disk.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Try it -- you'll like it, April 4, 2002

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david favrot (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live (Dig) (Audio CD)

Rachid Taha's studio CDs have only hinted at the relentless intensity of his live shows. Even the excellent DVD of his "1, 2, 3 Soleils" concert in Paris with fellow rai stars Khaled and Faudel falls short of what Taha can do with his own band doing his own material (I saw most of last year's big tours -- U2, Tom Petty, Prince, Madonna -- and Taha could have held his own with any of them). "Rachid Taha Live" fills the void with a selection of tunes from his last four CDs (including "Barra Barra," familiar to some from the soundtrack to "Black Hawk Down"), and it rocks the house. Record stores file his releases in the "World Music" ghetto, but this isn't yuppie background music: Taha is a loud, crazy roughneck with great stage moves and a tight band. You need this CD in your life. After you've heard it, you'll also need to email Taha's Mondo Melodia label and say: "Why isn't this guy touring the States?"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome powerhouse performance, August 8, 2005

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Nirmal Ghosh (Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live (Dig) (Audio CD)

This is one of the best live albums I have ever heard. I usually dislike live albums because of the extraneous noise, but the sheer energy of this performance makes everything else seem pale. Rachid Taha takes essential north African/Arabic rai and folk rhythms and overlays a pounding kicking rock drum/bass/guitar and belts out the songs in Arabic. It is interesting to see the sound morph into techno trance in a live performance. I can never get tired of this album. Go for it!