ABDELLI (Algeria)

Abdelli brings world music in the true sense of the word. There are no geographical, cultural or musical boundaries to be found in his music. Lots of different nationalities are represented in Abdelli's band: Armenian, Tunisian, Argentinian, Chilean, Belgian and Moroccan.

His new record “Among Brothers” was born out of the encounter of Abdelli's music and Berber singing with the music of Cape Verde and Azerbaijan, as well as with the music of Burkina Faso and the Maghreb.

A few thousand years ago, before the Arab invasions, the Berber kingdom stretched from Egypt to the Canary Islands, from the Mediterranean Sea to the desert of the Sahel. “Among Brothers” extend the borders of that ancient kingdom, wedding its music to that of Asia and Africa.

The music of “Among Brothers” belongs to the borderlands - not so much the geographical frontiers arbitrarily drawn upon maps, but the regions of creative inspiration that emerge from the encounter of different cultures. The music of Cape Verde is not exclusively African, but tainted with hues of Portuguese, almost Brazilian influence; the music of Azerbaijan is the head of a compass tracing circles across Islam and Slavic Orthodoxy, joining East and West.

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