Les Abranis – Album No. 1 (WeWantSounds, 2025) WeWantSounds has reissued Les Abranis’ sought-after 1983 LP Album No. 1, also known as Id Ed Was,…
Les Abranis’ Coveted 1983 ‘Album No. 1’ Returns
Tag: Kabyl
Algeria’s Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983
Les Abranis – Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983 (Bongo Joe Records, 2023) Bongo Joe Records delves once again into the realm of Kabyl rock with Les…
Legendary Algerian Berber Singer Idir Dies at 70
Idir, one of the greatest voices of Algerian Kabyl (Berber) music died May 3, 20230 in Paris from pulmonary disease. The passing was confirmed on…
Artist Profiles: Idir
Author of one of the first world music hits, Idir was an ambassador of the Kabyl culture (Berber people inhabiting Northern Algeria) since the 1970s.…
Artist Profiles: Moh Alileche
Mohand Alileche, known as Moh in the United States of America, was born in Kabylia, a mountainous region of Algeria, in 1959. At that time…
Artist Profiles: Abdelli
Abdelli Abderrahmane is a Kabyl Berber, born on the 2nd of April 1958 at Behalil in the Great Kabyl (Algeria). Author, composer and performer, he…