Hamid BAROUDI: "Carvane To Bagdad" (1995)

Hamid Baroudi grew up with music in his home country, Algeria, and aged 13, he made his stage debut. Music is far more than just entertainment in Algeria. Music can be hope against oppression, shared solidarity, spirituality, medicine, trance.

Music also accompanied Baroudi to France, but after a prolonged stay, he moved on and finally settled in Germany to study art in Kassel, home of the Dokumenta Fair. Next came six exciting years as the lead vocalist of the band Dissidenten, an important calling point in his musical career.

Following the worldwide tours and four joint albums, Hamid Baroudi left "Die Dissidenten", with whom he was a pathfinder of global pop, to pursue his solo career. He worked on City*No*Mad for two years. A pop album. Full stop. A political album. Another important point. Grooves lie at the heart of City*No*Mad, the Maghreb's rhythms amalgamated with Anglo-American rock.

Since then this "political animal" has been showered with awards. On the one hand he collected further praise and prizes for his music. Three tours for Peter Gabriel's Womad Festival Organisation took him to England, Spain and Japan, he won cultural grants in his chosen home of Kassel, and conquered the top of the European World Music Charts in August 1994.

On the other hand, Baroudi also found time to perform in Bonn with Herbert Grönemeyer and Wolf Maahn in front of an audience of 200,000 at the festival against the Gulf War.

Baroudi has not only taken on the role as musical ambassador for North Africa, but also between the different religions. His performances and commitment as a modern and future-oriented thinking Muslim, is precisely the opposite of the past-fixated Fundamentalists.



Source: Www.hamid-baroudi.com/bio_en

Mauritania: Flute Neifar

Neifar flute, played by Mohamed ould Mohamed Ellabd in Atar, Mauritania:




A music that inspire the senses and remind us of the tranquility and peace of the desert.

Hindi Music: I'm Crazy About Prem (Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon - 2003)

I'm Crazy About Prem (Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon - 2003)
Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya
Writer: Sooraj R. Barjatya
Release Date: 27 June 2003 (USA)
Genre: Musical - Drama - Romance
Langauges: English and indian with English (Put the video on full screen for better watching)


* Cast:
Abhishek Bachchan ... Prem Kumar
Ruby Bhatia ... Herself (Special appearance)
Tanaaz Currim Irani ... Roopa (as Tanaaz Currim)
Javed Jaffrey ... Himself (Special Appearance) (as Jaaved Jaaffery)
Farida Jalal ... Mrs. Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor ... Sanjana
Pankaj Kapur ... Satyaprakash
Shubha Khote ... Mother Fernandes
Reema Lagoo ... Prem Kumar's mom
Johnny Lever ... Johnny
Hrithik Roshan ... Prem Kishen Mathur
Kusumit Sana ... Shabnam
Himani Shivpuri ... Susheela
Manmeet Singh ... Hrithik's friend - Abhishek's manager
Upasna Singh ... Secretary
Raju Srivastava ... Servant


* Plot :

Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her to see a boy leading to a marriage prospect. Roopa, the eldest daughter shows Sanjana's photos to Prem's mother who instantly approves of her. She eventually meets Prem Kishen (Hrithik Roshan).


At first she cannot stand him but eventually both fall in love with each other. Her parents are happy that Sanjana likes him, but suddenly Sanjana's sister Roopa, e-mails them and tells them that Prem could not make it so they sent someone else.


The confused parents later find out that the boy that is here is not in fact the Prem, the rich N.R.I (non resident Indian) whom Sanjana was meant to meet. He is Prem Kishen, an employee in Prem Kumar's company. It gets even worse when the real Prem (played by Abhishek Bachchan) arrives to meet Sanjana.

Native American Music: "Brother To All Men"

- FRom Video Source:

The video production, "BROTHER TO ALL MEN" is a documentation of a Native American Hunting Dance. Sixty-four year old, Ben Boyd "BROTHER TO THE WOLF" has lived a Traditional Native Subsistence Way of Life in Alaska Indian Villages since 1975. He performed the dance while there was a shortage of caribou meat which was the main source of food for the villagers. The caribou migrated by the village around mid August, but it was getting late, and they had not come.

The spiritual leader of the village ask Boyd to go up on the mountain and dance and pray for caribou to come. Boyd took his Indian cloths and a video camera to the mountain and danced all day while moving the camera on a tripod around to different positions to record the dance. A few days later the caribou came and the village obtained meat.

The dance Boyd did was one that was taught to him by his Indian grandfather. The motions of the dance are not near as important as the mental state of the dancer. While in a state of meditation the dancer prays to summons animals through a form of mental telepathy, as that is how animals communicate.

The dance was not an Alaska Native Dance. The villagers have their own Caribou Dance that they do not do for public viewing.



- Lyrics:

When I was born, right from the start
I was a white man in the blood, but an Indian in my heart
Beat of an Indian drum was the beat of my heart
I was a Lone Wolf among white men

In Alaska he lived in Indian villages and did not Indian dance for many years. While staying in the wilderness alone for three months, a wolf came to him and stared him in the eye. Boyd could clearly see that it was time for him to start Indian dancing again and to not be apart from white people. He no longer felt alone but as though he was a brother to all men. Thus the song lyrics:

The Wolf Spirit, gave a new start
I am brother to all men in my heart
Beat of all men's drum is the beat of my heart
I am brother to the wolf and all men