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Post by Phil on May 18, 2014 16:32:36 GMT 1
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Post by Phil on May 18, 2014 16:37:37 GMT 1
SONG N°1:
 Labess - Au bord de l'eau
Labess is a  Quebecker-Algerian chaabi music band created in 2004.
They earned success with their albums Tout va bien and Identité and became very
popular in North Africa.
Today they are interested by North Vision Song Contest and compete
to represent their home country.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:00:42 GMT 1
I'll make the main part of the announcement today, because I want to start the SFs asap.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:06:38 GMT 1
Song n°2:
flagAlgeria Babylone - Mnam 
The first and only returning artist this edition.
Babylone is an Algerian music-band formed in 2012.
They try to introduce their music in different sounds from different musical styles such as Country, Blues and various other styles ... Their first song Zina, which participated in AR #1, earned a lot of success and got over 20.000.000 views.
They try again to represent their country with a pretty slow Blues ballad.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:10:02 GMT 1
Song n°3:
Cameleon - Rechany
Cameleon is (another) Algerian band.
They are liked for the poesy of their lyrics and melody, even though they are still rather unknown.
They are competing here with a rock raï song.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:15:15 GMT 1
Song n°4: Khaled Habib - Mahroum Khaled Habib is an Algerian singer, very famous in his country.
He tries to create music original and modern at the same time. It's very usual to hear ethnic elements like drums in his songs. He also worked with many ethnic bands in the world, such as Aquarius from  France,  New Phases from South Africa...
Today he's coming with a very beautiful ballad, including a short time with an accordion.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:23:51 GMT 1
Song n°5: Arash & Najim ft. Rebecca - Près de toi (Suddenly) Arash is an   Iranian-Swedish singer. He represented  Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2009, and built a long career in Europe to finally become gold record in 5 countries.
Suddenly, one of his most succesful songs, is sung with the Swedish singer Rebecca. Here is another version of it, translated in French and feating the  French-Algerian raï singer Najim.
NB: Maybe this will be considered as a cover. But I don't think it is, because a cover has by definition a different singer than the original version. I'd take it as a "different" version, but it'll be up to the council to decide.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:27:36 GMT 1
Song n°6: Freeklane - El madani Freeklane is an Algerian band formed in 2008.
They only made one album so far, Lala Mira, which was quite succesful in their country.
El madani is a song taken from this album.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:31:33 GMT 1
Song n°7: Harmonica - Tassili Harmonica is an Algerian band formed in 1997.
They mix Gnawi, Chaabi and Metal in their songs, which is very appreciated in their country.
They present today a song about the Sahara desert to represent Algeria in NVSC.
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Post by Phil on May 21, 2014 9:35:30 GMT 1
Song n°8: El Dey - Maria Here's another very recent band from Algeria.
They created the group in 2009 and published their first album last year. They favour ethnic elements in their songs,
and have many musical influences as well.
Maria Maria is a song from their album, and a very catchy one too.
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