Rai Music, Touareg-Music, Brasilian, Funk, Pop, R&B, Rock, House, Tekkno (to name a few)... if you want to give it a name, call it WORLD MUSIC...
Sounds Like
...it defenetly sounds like HAMID BAROUDI...
He doesn't name it, but the noumerous festivals around the world he plays on or releases on sampler-cds he has, shows that his music is a global sound for people all around the world.
World in Singapore (WOMAD), Spirit of Africa (Real World), World Lounge (Putumayo), Geisha Lounge (Virgin), Bled Remix (Universal), ...
Womad Festivals around the world, Montreal Jazz, Winnipeg Folkfest, Adelaide Arts Fest, Singapore Festival of the Arts, United Nations against Racism - South Africa, lots of concerts in Algeria, all over Europe, ...
"To all the fans who come to all the concerts around the world, who buy my music, to my family and fellow people in Algeria and Germany. Thank you for your support...!" (Hamid Baroudi)
"If all the soldiers around the world would put down their weapons and pick up an instrument, a guitar and start playing music, the world would be a much better place..." (Hamid Baroudi)
I make it difficult for experts to pigeon-hole me - that gives me a real kick. People ask me, "What kind of music do you play? Is that ethno, pop, techno, classic, modern?" To which I can only say, "Sorry, but that's not my problem. It was my problem until I composed it. Now the ball's in your court."
Let us have a closer at this strange man and musician. Hamid Baroudi grew up with music in his home country, Algeria, and aged 13, he made his stage debut. Music is far more than just entertainment in Algeria. Music can be hope against oppression, shared solidarity, spirituality, medicine, trance.
Music also accompanied Baroudi to France, but after a prolonged stay, he moved on and finally settled in Germany to study art in Kassel, home of the Dokumenta Fair. Next came six exciting years as the lead vocalist of the band Dissidenten, an important calling point in his musical career.
Following the worldwide tours and four joint albums, Hamid Baroudi left "Die Dissidenten", with whom he was a pathfinder of global pop, to pursue his solo career. He worked on City*No*Mad for two years. A pop album. Full stop. A political album. Another important point. Grooves lie at the heart of City*No*Mad, the Maghreb's rhythms amalgamated with Anglo-American rock.
Since then this "political animal" has been showered with awards. On the one hand he collected further praise and prizes for his music. Three tours for Peter Gabriel's Womad Festival Organisation took him to England, Spain and Japan, he won cultural grants in his chosen home of Kassel, and conquered the top of the European World Music Charts in August 1994. On the other hand, Baroudi also found time to perform in Bonn with Herbert Grönemeyer and Wolf Maahn in front of an audience of 200,000 at the festival against the Gulf War.
Baroudi has not only taken on the role as musical ambassador for North Africa, but also between the different religions. His performances and commitment as a modern and future-oriented thinking Muslim, is precisely the opposite of the past-fixated Fundamentalists.
In 1996 Hamid Baroudi once again emphasised that his main aim, also music-wise, was to bring together different worlds that do not seem to be compatible. On City*No*Mad it was the brilliant fusion of African and Anglo-American rock and pop music. With the Mad C.T. Mix he pushed his love of experimenting even further. Bar one of the tracks, the songs are all remixes of the previous album's contents. Drum & bass, techno, house, dub - by making use of all of these styles, befriended DJs and producers enhance Hamid Baroudi's classics such as "Caravan to Baghdad" or "Salamba". Not only in Europe, but also in Algeria, the album was enthusiastically received.
That brings us to Hamid Baroudi's second solo album. The album "5" which is an aptly chosen title. It features vocals in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish and the West African language Wolof. Furthermore "5" is a mystical number, especially in the Arabian countries. Five continents, the 5 in physics, the meaning of the number in Indian culture....Have we forgotten anything?
All of the ten songs on the album were recorded in a different city. The album is as varied as the places it was recorded at. "Trance dance" ingeniously combines trance rhythms from the Maghreb with European rave beats. The Spanish elements on "Columbus" musically bridge the gap across the Straits of Gibraltar. "Mama-Tamba" intertwines West African Cora sounds with Arabian vocals. The remixes by DJ Krush and Sakuma mirror Hamid Baroudi's latest Japanese excursions
i am pleased to announce: Dooload.de has published my first EP. Slowhand Staccato is like the soundtrack to a movie of Fellini realized by Tarantino. Spanish-arabian tunes are mixed with tango elements and the broken beats of a marching band. Ben zen Berg bundles melancholy with new elements he finds on the dark side of kitsch. A shellac nostalgia, frozen in technical sterility, will awake in a new life of warm but synthetic sound. In each head this downbeat can find a cinema. You can download Slowhand Staccato at Amazon, Musicload, AOL, Napster, eMusic and iTunes or give it a listen on http://www.myspace.com/benzenberg2
Paz – Inspiración – Salud - Bendiciones y Mucha Musica. Feliz y Prospero Año 2009 - Happy New Year 2009. Viel Glück im Neuen Jahr 2009. .......Never stop the beat....... Alvaro.
THANKS FOR THE ADD YA HAMID, I REALLY LIKE YOUR SINGING STYLE, I AM JUST WONDERING WHERE YOU'VE BEEN BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU SINCE A LONG TIME. BUT YEAH KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, WALLAH YOUR MUSIC IS UNIQUE, AND I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO KEEP GOING WITH THAT.
hello hamid my brother how are you? all is well here. I have not talked to you in a while and sure miss you. hope you are well. everyone sends there greets to you. please give my greets to the family. much love and respect.
Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein gluckliches Neues Jahr Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Inspiracion – Mucha Musica - Bendiciones. .......Never stop the beat....... Alvaro.
hamid im one of your greatest fans,i admire your vision of life and the way U put it in your own style,you realy are an roaming artist searching a road in a holly desert!!!!
SAHA HAMID I WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR THE ADD IM A BIG FAN OF YOU I HOPE YOU KEEP DOING THE GREAT WORK . CHEERS AND RESPECT . PEACE / SALAM
