oulad miliana ouled miliana

does anyone out there have any recordings of the hadra of the oulad miliana (in morocco) played on the lira?
interesting that they don't even exist on google's radar
do they have an entirely different name in algeria, perhaps, where their founding sheikh is buried?

gnawiyya in a douar

check out the great series of videos by tabouda01 at youtube.com ......great quality recording of both image and sound

algerian music

this is a cd with a 32 minute dvd "extra"....there is one piece here in an "altered pentatonic mode" "plunging the audience into an antique-sounding world" .......available in the u.s.a. as an import

moroccan films on dvd

these five dvds are also available separately in france from alapage.com

the most recent of the two have subtitles in french or english, the other three only in french

wechma (1970) subt. francais

mirage (1979) subt. francais

la priere de l'absent (1995) subt. francais

les casablancais (1999) subt. english & francais

le cheval de vent (2002) subt. english & francais

nouri bouzid dvd

scheduled for release june 10 in the u.s.a. the dvd "making of" by the tunisian film director nouri bouzid

abdelilah hamdouchi

hopefully appearing, inch'Allah, may 15, 2008 the book by moroccan novelist abdelilah hamdouchi called "the last wager" in the u.s.a. and "the final bet" in the u.k.

chaabi downloads at amazon

another company is providing north african cds for download at amazon.com.......type in "amd" and you'll get a choice of 82 cds (as well as 3 cds by a rock group called amd).......unfortunately a lot of them are compilations with brief excerpts less than two minutes long of many songs.....there are however some normal cds: try listening to the "hay delli" cd by bnat acharque or the cd by khalid el awni..........some great numbers.....