“Long haul”, the ultimate hymn to the love of Areski Belkacem

In solo, against a background of a chaabi guitar and a Arab-Andalusian piano, the poet with a voice full of blues sings the love of his life. Consequently, An enchantment.

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“long haul”, ultimate hymn love

En 1980. However, came out Eglantines may be greatfifth album in tire of Areski Belkacem and Brigitte Fontaine. In addition, Born twelve years earlier under the sign of a whimsical theater. a free song, the couple consumed under the contrary suns the washing of anti-communist brains and the cowboys which “Band’que for the bazooka”. This subversive nugget. denied by its authors because of its Jazz-Rock arrangements, then fell into the forgotten, resuscitates today under the name Baraka 80 (1), in an instrumental count more in line with their vocal alchemy. And it’s already a small event.

But the real miracle is the release of Long CourrierAreski Belkacem’s first solo album for fifteen years. the third in his career. The inflated voice of tenderness. a very Kabyle blues, the former pillar of the Saravah label camps the poet man of a single woman there. The last declaration of “long haul”, ultimate hymn love love he sends him also the creative journey of a life. Once upon a time A queen and a kingAreski the enchanter and Brigitte, fountain of eternal youth …

In his melodic bohemian, where chaabi and Arab-Andalou piano pierce, he tells the nights tell the sun and the wind, the braided caresses in his hands, drift after the antics, sacred desire and breathless pleasures. Until convening, to the sound of gnaouas crotals and twilight riffs, the spectrum of disenchantment. “Should we leave?” »»he asks without believing too much. To the final sentences, the troubadour prefers the illusion of a last idyll. Melancholy and luminous reciting on Where A final, he abandons us there, in a last and overwhelming audacity.