Khaled "Kenza"
Khaled was a proponent of the Rai genre, a kind of Algerian folk
music. He rose in prominence and was given a chance
to record in France and build a career there. Other younger French
Rai artists emerged and the book suggests that Khaled took some
inspiration from them when creating this album.
As far as I'm concerned, he can leave the influence. This album works
best when it's the more straight-ahead Rai sound. As soon as he starts
getting into more glossy 'modern' production it sounds cheesy
and dated.
I was not really a fan of this. The aforementioned 'modern' sounds and
the nearly one and a half hour runtime really drained me. I can
certainly hear some good stuff in here, but not enough to make me ever
really want to revisit this or to seek out more of Khaled's albums.
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