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ラシッド・アズーズが奏でる珠玉の地中海ベルベル音楽

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Rachid Azzouz & Awanès fusion

Rachid Azzouz is a great Amazigh* smile, a contemporary Kabyle voice and a passionate songwriter.

Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Idir have always lived with his guitars.

In 2011 "Tigzirt" released his first album (Izem Prod). Dance, laughter, melancholy, revolt and love are called to it. It was also in 2011 that he introduced the Kabyle song to the Japanese public. He sang in Kyoto for the Festival de la Francophonie, as well as in Kobe, Osaka, Nara and Tokyo.

In 2019 with his new group Awanès Fusion, Rachid Azzouz released the album "Awanès" whose strolls express the joy of living, the lack of the country, the suffering of a people and the pleasure of creating to be free. They are superbly developed and highlighted by the arrangements of Lounès Bouali. It’s Christophe Boucheron who chisels the melodies, as a poet of clarinet and sax; Laurent Bollé reinvents Kabyle rhythms; and Sylvain Henner gives the bass a good base for the songs.

*The Amazigh people (or Berber for the Romans) populated the mountains of North Africa, and Kabyle was spoken from Tenerife to Cairo. Choked by successive invasions, this language has survived thanks to the oral tradition sung in particular. Rachid Azzouz is one of the great passers-by on this millennial heritage.

Lead Vocal, Guitars / Rachid Azzouz
Back vocal, Guitars / Lounes Bouali
Clarinet & Saxophone/ Christophe Boucheron
Bass / Sylvain Henner
Drums / Laurent Bollé

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