The album Mawja by Aziza Brahim has claimed the number one position on Transglobal World Music Chart for the month of March 2024. Aziza was…
Aziza Brahim – Mawja (Glitterbeat, 2024) Aziza Brahim‘s fifth album, Mawja, set for release on February 23rd, 2024, features her signature mix of Saharan and…
Saïd Chalaban – Jarama (Argana Records, 2023) Saïd Chalaban presents the Jarama EP connected to the 2018 documentary film “Échos du Sahara.” The making of…
The album Sahari by Saharawi vocalist Aziza Brahim is the top album in the December 2019 Transglobal World Music Chart. Aziza worked with the renowned…
In Baba Salama Said’s passport it said he was born in Oran on January 14 of 1969. It was an Algerian passport of convenience, recognized…
Mariem Hassan was born in May 1958 in Ued Tazua, in the former Spanish Sahara in northwestern Africa. She expressed herself naturally in Hassania, the…
The Indomitable Voice is the title of a new book about the late Mariem Hassan, one of the greatest singers from the Western Sahara in…
Being a self-styled traditionalist doesn’t mean my musical tastes are so staunch that I shun any sonic adventurousness that steps over traditional boundaries. Cross the…
Rising Saharawi artist Aziza Brahim and her band will be performing live in London on Tuesday, 26 April 2016, at the Elgar Room (Royal…
Aziza Brahim – Abbar el Hamada (Glitterbeat, 2016) Western Saharan musician and activist Aziza Brahim explains, “I’m not able to separate politics, cultural and personal…