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I apologise if this thread as nothing to do with Egypt, but for those who like modern Arab Music I strongly recommend you to listen to Souad Massi's Music.
She is the genuine artiste, who sings with a natural and original style, her songs are a blend of rock, flamenco, and traditional Arab Music, made up with various instrument such as the ood ,and classic guitar, on Brazilian and north African rhythms.
Here is a web site where you can listen some of her song from one of her most popular album Deb ( heart broken)
Until only a few years ago, a lot of people thought Algeria boiled down to rai, musically speaking of course. No one expected a young female singer songwriter with a style closer to Joni Mitchell than Chaba Fadela to emerge from the burbs of Algiers and take the world by storm.
Souad Massi grew up listening to black American soul, flamenco, hard rock and country & western, which she discovered courtesy of films like 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and other westerns. Having endured the privations and tensions of Algeria in the 1990s, a decade when a bitter civil war between an army backed dictatorship and fundamentalist militias claimed over 100,000 lives, Souad came to Paris in 1998 to perform at a festival called 'Femmes d'Alger'. Her show at the Cabaret Sauvage was a revelation for the unexpectant audience and a huge relief for Souad, a loosening of a pressure valve that had remained tightly closed during the last years of her life in Algiers.
She went on to release a widely-acclaimed debut CD, 'Raoui', which showcased her remarkable talent for writing songs that were simultaneously melodic, highly emotional and uncompromisingly relevant. In 2002 Souad followed it up with 'Deb', one of the most successful North African albums ever. Courage, talent, intelligence and beauty are always a seductive mix. Souad Massi has them all.
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