Today’s Sunday Matinee which has zero to do with opera features the Algerian artist Ahmed el Salam. COMMANDOpera found Mr. Salam while looking into the Sauti za Busara Music Festival, which is one of the largest music festivals in Africa located on the island of Zanzibar. Ahmed el Salam was born in Oued Souf, in the Algerian Sahara, where he learnt to play the flute. Later the arist moved to Algiers where he discovered the guitar. He now lives in France and his music embraces the sounds of his life, combining a sublime combination of strings (guitar, oud, violin). In Mr. Salam’s music, you can hear a plurality of cultural influences – echoes of chaabi with other music styles of North Africa and the Middle East, alongside Arabo-Andaluasian flamenco, the blues, Santana and Jimi Hendrix.
Sunday Matinee Ahmed el Salam
Today’s Sunday Matinee which has zero to do with opera features the Algerian artist Ahmed el Salam. COMMANDOpera found Mr. Salam while looking into the Sauti za Busara Music Festival, which is one of the largest music festivals in Africa located on the island of Zanzibar. Ahmed el Salam was born in Oued Souf, in the Algerian Sahara, where he learnt to play the flute. Later the arist moved to Algiers where he discovered the guitar. He now lives in France and his music embraces the sounds of his life, combining a sublime combination of strings (guitar, oud, violin). In Mr. Salam’s music, you can hear a plurality of cultural influences – echoes of chaabi with other music styles of North Africa and the Middle East, alongside Arabo-Andaluasian flamenco, the blues, Santana and Jimi Hendrix.
‘Mahgreb’
‘Andalousia’
‘Ben sidi slimene’