Akim El Sikameya biography, Akim El Sikameya discography
Akim was born in Oran, Algeria.Arabic music in the West.Cheb Mami, and their irresistible talent.Noa, to name just a few.Thank you for sharing this video!Adding comments has been disabled for this video.Crossing the Mediterranean, he attracted attention on the stage in Marseille.Vertes, Natacha Atlas, Cesaria Evora, Noa....His music is strong, refined and striking : an arabic language which rhtymes the oriental violin with the "cajon" sound and the flamenco guitar.Search for artists and albums Search help.He projects a dignified, stratospheric sound, both in the qualities of his impossibly high voice and his ornamented, bittersweet violin.The Algerian Akim El Sikameya made a significant impression at 2005's WOMAD festival, not least for possessing a voice that, in others, might be the result of helium inhalation.The musical vocabulary has North African roots, but El Sikameya also snatches motifs from flamenco, jazz, West African pop and on one song even manages to combine samba and French chanson.Hi, I heard Akim EL SIKAMEYA's Album, it's a great and wonderful music, i am listening now on his my space wyspace."YA WAADI" in his new album "un chouia d'amour" release in January 08, this title may be it's the hit in next year...........This is a Jewish religious song in an Algerian style known as djiri.But it could have easily been heard in Spain or parts of North Africa in medieval times.The era between 700 and 1400 AD is known as the "convivencia."But it was more than that.That period is the starting point for the music of Algerian singer and violinist Akim el Sikameya.Akim el Sikameya was born in Oran.Oran's got a vibrant cultural past.But its cultural present is dictated to a large degree by Algeria's state agenda.So a lot of contemporary artists feel sidelined, even politically threatened.And they either quit making music, or leave Algeria.Akim: In Oran I listened the pop, i listened the rock music, I listened Madonna, I listened U2, Rolling Stones, I listened music traditional, celtic, flamenco in Oran because you Spain, you have French people, you have Jewish before, and when I come in France, it's the capital of all the world music in Paris, I meet and I listened another music.Akim el Sikameya says his music falls into two categories.Sad melancholy and happy melancholy.Slowly through the lyrics, Oran becomes indistinguishable from a beautiful woman.This is the Oran, and the Algeria, Akim el Sikameya dreams of.Algeria to listen my music and propose another music, but to stay in Algeria now, it's not my priority now.The vote 2008
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