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♬ Baba Bahri

On my last Tunisian post, I got some emails that there are plenty of musicians from there who released more than one single. And whereas that is true – like K. R. Nagti for example – most of the artists that I am interested in only did release one single. An exception to that rule is Carthago.

Carthago was founded in the late 1970s with Fawzi Chekili (guitar), Ridha Kouhen (bass) and Skander Almi (drums) of the band Dalton and Hechmi Miliani (guitar) and Kamel Sellam (synthesizer) of Marhaba Band. Both bands had similar musical influences, despite the fact that they were competition with each other. Musically, Carthago followed the same path of Dalton and Marhaba but incorporated disco, a relatively new style at that time. At the end of the 70s, Carthago went to Paris to record their self-titled album.

If you have any further information about Marhaba Band, please leave it in the comment section below.

Catalog number MB 01 on Marhaba Band Records of Tunisia. No release date listed.

Whizzy delights!! Great track!!

Comment by The Listening Post Blog April 11, 2022 @ 12:49 pm