Mustapha Skandrani - Istikhbars and ImprovisationsFormat : LP Label : Em Records Catalog # : EM1096LP2 Genre : World 2024 REPRESS It's back in a shiny new jacket. Essential piano works. Mustapha Skandrani: besides having an excellent name, this man, a luminary of Algerian music, possessed a unique musical sense, able to transcend the borders of musical cultures to create a distinctive fusion of Arabo Andalusian and European styles. Istikhbars And Improvisations, recorded in 1965 in Paris, is a solo

under which name he produced four albums

Standing just 5’7 (6′ with the Afro) Tim Maia was large

Leoni Leoni's music has a powerful attraction and a unique bewitching force

With Ethiopian Chickchika music

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but also a tuning into the surroundings and to each other

from prog to disco

flute-heavy indie-pop

during one of those sessions

the latter of which perhaps explains why he's only made one other CD as a "leader

recording and producing the album in analog like he always did

catchy grooves