El Foukr R’Assembly Live on NYC Radio – Podcast 197 - a podcast by David Ellenbogen, host

n a stunning display of North and West African fusion, El Foukr R’Assembly, a group traveling all the way from Algeria performs live on WKCR.  The musicians from Algeria, Burkina Faso and Ghana come together for two explosive sets of music

A taxi-driver & a farmer, a graphic designer, a sound engineer and an art-major student, Oualid Khelifi as the producer and filmmaker had met them lin 2014 at various parts of Algeria before suggesting a long term project around docfilm and experimental AfroFusion music linking the Maghreb with the rest of Africa.
So far, the project has recorded, documented or produced 18 African musicians from Algeria, Niger, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

Todays show features

Amine Lehchili,
Abdelhak BenMedjbari
Justice Nii Adjiri aka Shikome
Adama Diarra
Labib Benslama
Younes Kati
Nazim Bakour

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