- Audio CD (14 Aug 2001)
- Label: Piranha Musik
- ASIN: B00000DFIK
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
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Track Listings
| 1. Bienvenue/Abiadi |
| 2. Taktouk Andalou/Ghazalati |
| 3. Ma Aamlo Biya |
| 4. Rai Rock Rumba |
| 5. Ya Ghbina |
| 6. Ma Testahalchi |
| 7. Ya Maalem/Kelbi Razahi |
| 8. Meklassates 1 & 2 |
| 9. Ahla Oussala |
| 10. Moel' Medio |
| 11. Cocktail Andalou |
Product Description
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This veteran Jewish pianist started playing at the age of nine, gigging around the American bars in Oran shortly after the Allied liberation in 1942. Here, he picked up on boogie woogie, Cuban son and early Algerian rai, mulching all these diverse elements into one highly individual, romantically frilled flow. By the late-50s, he had moved to France, adding Parisian pop songs to the armoury. El Medioni's impressive PianOriental line-up includes a pair of old Klezmatics (clarinettist David Krakauer and trumpeter Frank London) and a 3 Mustapha 3'er (bassist Sabah Habas Mustapha). It also includes an extra-tricky rhythm team in the shape of drummer Marco Maimaran (equally versed in jazz and Arabic music) and rattling Nubian percussionist Mahmoud Fadl (who also leads his own Salamat group). Moroccan singer Michel Rebibo contributes soaring lines whenever El Medioni can contain his own eloquent gush, the pair's preference for flamboyant delivery perfectly matched. The tunes are frequently divided into swerving sections, punctuated by scimitar horn parries, rife with dynamic time-changes, drums and percussion chattering with constantly changing accents. --Martin Longley
The World Interview Marco Werman 29-05-2003
Medioni's talent is still awe-inspiring.
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A Talent, but Second Tier
7 May 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fans of North African music and movies conjure up 'Rick's Place' in 'Casablanca' and hope for North African-International music that might fit that era. Maurice El Medioni may have come from there but he does not deliver what contemporary North African music lovers might hope for or what 'Colonialists' might wish to remember. This CD also features 'The Klezmatics'--a modernized reference to klezmer music traditions typified, for me, by Giora Fiedman. They and their tradition don't get much of an outing here. I wanted to see these two 'grooves' come together! For my taste, Maurice El Medioni delivers piano music that features changes in rhythms, percussive effects and wonderful tonalities but he does not captivate. Many of his compositions draw too much from the same well and feature the same sonic effects. For me, this outing of his is a bit like a third-world lounge act.
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