Suffers from a dearth of memorable tunes when compared to Diwan 2. For nearly three decades – first with the band Carte de Séjour, and since 1991, as a solo artist – the French-Algerian rocker Rachid Taha has been making music...
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My gaze is glued to one of today's most eccentric rock'n'roll rebels as he stalks the stage in front of the flirtatiously grand Mairie de Paris like a demented scarecrow, a defrocked undertaker, a panto miscreant of the kind...