Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

♬ Sidi Rabi

Boussoir Maghnaoui (also seen as Boussouar el Maghnaoui) was from… Hmm. Here’s where things get a little fuzzy. Most sources that say he was from Maghnia, Algeria. But I also have other sources that say he was from Oujda, Morocco. Those two cities are roughly 28 kilometers / 17 miles apart.

Unlike most of the Raï / Proto Raï that I have heard, the organ is very prominent on this track. The song starts off with a “stwanat” – where the artist announces the record label his name as well as the name of the performers. That is followed a sort of poem – or mawwal – that doesn’t have anything to do with the usual intros and tributes to other artists or football players or cities. This song features Messaoud Bellemou – known as “The Father of Raï” – on trumpet.

Thanks to Hicham Chadly, Jonathon Ward and Loïc Guillaume for input on this post.

Catalog number N· 496 on Sawt-Hilali of Algeria. No release date listed.

Hello i just wanna say that there’s no fuzz about where’s he from, he’s algerian from maghnia and he took the name of his city bousouar el maghnaoui, so that’s very simple and clear.

by the way great job u have been doing throught the years.Thnxx

Comment by Anonymous August 12, 2024 @ 11:18 am