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San Francisco Weekly, Concert Preview >>
Finally, the Arabic-language reclamation of "Rock the Casbah" we've been waiting for all these years! Sounding a little bit like the old French group Les Negresses Vertes, the upbeat, accordion-laced rai-rock of Rachid Taha takes the classic Clash tune and recasts it as a glorious anthem blasting allegorically from inside the ancient city instead of bombarding it, however stylishly, from outside. Taha is famous for this kind of thing; when asked if "melting-pot rock" originated in France (only a French reviewer could ask this, yes?), he hit the nail on the head in a most eloquent way: "If Bo Diddley had been born in Morocco, he'd have ended up playing gnawa music!" 06/22/05 >> go there
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