Cheikha Rimitti s’est éteinte d’un arrêt cardiaque à son domicile, à 83 ans chihka 15 maideux jours après son concert au Zénith Paris où la diva chantait avec les « chebs », notamment Khaled. Her songs were a potent balm for the sorrows of lonely Algerian men, living in their worker’s hostels and pining for the warmth and sun of the heir homeland. She was 83. She died on May 15, 2006 in Paris, France. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Listen free to Cheikha Rimitti – Nouar (Nouar, Nakhla and more). This name did not match the reality of her early life, however, as she had been orphaned as a child due to violent French occupation and began to live rough, earning a few francs working in the fields and doing other manual jobs. “Tear, lacerate / Rimitti will mend / Let’s caress under the covers / somersault over somersault / I’ll give my love everything he wants / I’m smitten by the wholesale fruit seller / by the one with his turban and his turtledove” went the lyric. Cheikha Rimitti discography and songs: Music profile for Cheikha Rimitti, born 8 May 1923. Rimitti began singing as a means of surviving. concert Ninho, Despite the global popularity of the electrified rai sound, Rimitti’s roots formula of voice, flute and drum remains the most arresting, the most evocative and the most enticing clarion-call of the genre. Get the Cheikha Rimitti Setlist of the concert at Muntplein / Place de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium on July 12, 1996 and other Cheikha Rimitti Setlists for free on setlist.fm! Cheikha Rimitti joins the music pantheon in the sky The Grandmother of Raï dies on 15 May . 10 tracks (59:48). Cheikha Rimitti est morte le 15 mai 2006, deux jours après son concert au Zénith de Paris où elle chantait avec les « chebs », notamment Khaled. Data Top 20 New Albums of on Last. The fact that Rimitti and her team of producers and musicians have managed to modernise it so effectively, first on ‘Nouar’, a modern rai masterpiece produced by Algerian Mohammed Maghni and released in 2000, and now on ‘N’ta Goudami’, is something that all of us should be grateful for. Un article de Wikipédia, l’encyclopédie libre. Printemps De Perouges (01), Montauban En Scenes (82), Les Nuits De Fourviere (69), Festival De Nimes (30), Les Vieilles Charrues (29), Musilac (73), Pause Guitare (81), Garorock (47), Printemps De Bourges (18), Dour Festival (Belgique). "J'ai semé le grain, ils ont récolté le blé." For those with only a passing interest in North African and Arabic music, these lists will be more or less meaningless. De Cheikh Hamada ou Cheikha Rimitti à Cheb Khaled ou Chaba Fadela, des cassettes piratées aux concerts géants, retour sur l’odyssée du raï. In fact, she’s obsessed with it. This name did not match the reality of her early life, however, as she had been orphaned as a child due to violent French occupation and began to live rough, earning a few francs working in the fields and doing other manual jobs. de Cheikha Rimitti. She was famed for dancing with a whole tray of glasses full to the brim balanced on her head, her belly a-blur, without spilling a drop. La grande dame du raï algérien est décédée le 15 Mai 2006 à Paris. Two years later she released ‘Charrag Gatta’, a barely veiled invitation to virgins to do the deed. You can’t blame her. Cheikha Rimitti – Listen on Deezer | Music Streaming. 14530057, citing Cimetière de Ain Beida, Oran, Oran District, Oran, Algeria ; Maintained by Find A Grave . Genres: Raï, Traditional Raï, Pop Raï. I to need to earn a crust somehow. The cause was a heart attack, her Web site said. It was the first time that Cheikha Rimitti had been programmed in a proper concert hall, and one that was part of one the most respected cultural centres of the Arabic Diaspora to boot. english.rfi.fr . She was known for mounting horses with rifles in each hand and giving the gnarled old veterans a run for their money, or for diving under galloping hooves. Cheikha Rimitti Rilizania est née près de Sidi Bel Abbes en 1923, elle a connu tous les soubresauts de l'histoire contemporaine de son pays, l'Algérie. Pas envie de voir des annonces? I just looked on, uncomprehending and in awe. Je jouais avec eux du bendir, pour les fêtes religieuses, les mariages. Although extremely popular, no one with the slightest concern for the colour of his own reputation would actually admit to listening to recordings of the cheikhas. I remember a rapturous welcome from the largely North African audience, a welcome that was laced with deranged passion and epic expectations. It ended a thirty-year period of official ostracism and neglect. She was nothing less than la mamie du rai, a legend who was miraculously still alive and still performing with all the provocative panache that had made her famous back in Algeria fifty years before. Ahead of Sarah El Hamed’s talk on Cheikha Rimitti, Steve explained to me how he fell in love with her music. L'origine de son surnom remonte à l'époque coloniale. Vidéos, biographie, concerts. It was only recently that I learned the real significance of that night back in 1994. Elle offrit donc des tournées de boissons en criant à la patronne : “Rimitti”, autrement dit « remettez-en une ». At some point during her teens, Rimitti joined an itinerant troupe of Hamadcha musicians, who lived out their devotion to the Moroccan Sufi saint Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch by touring the countryside and performing healing rituals animated by music during which ‘patients’ would go into a trance and communicate with spirits or djnoun. Avec son humour légendaire, elle disait qu'elle comptait bien les remettre à leur place [réf. There she was recognised and complimented. Cheikha Rimitti. Cheikha Rimitti s’est musjc d’un arrêt cardiaque à son domicile, à 83 ans le 15 maideux jours après son concert au Zénith Paris où la diva chantait avec les « chebs », notamment Khaled. Let’s have another one, and another, and another!!! It’s not hard to imagine the effect of such a discourse on the polite Algerian society of the 1950s. Cheikha Rimitti, a pioneer of the rebellious Algerian pop called raï, died on May 15 in Paris, where she had lived since 1978. “Because I’m fascinated by that period,” I answer. During the ‘60s and ‘70s she maintained her grassroots popularity by performing at hundreds, even thousands of weddings, naming ceremonies and henna feasts. We met in late January amidst the luxuriant Arabian nights décor of a Moorish bar restaurant in Paris’ third arrondissement. Style: Raï. It was a time of terrible hardship in Algeria. concert Dadju, Cheikha Rimitti arrived with her manager and producer Nourredine Gafaiti, an old rai svengali who has managed an impressive stable of A-list Algerian stars in his time including the late lamented Cheb Hasni and the husband and wife duo Sahraoui and Fadela. In the 1970s the North African community in France multiplied a hundred fold, and Rimitti became a favourite in the cafés of the Arab quarters like Barbès in Paris, Place du Pont in Lyons or Cours Belzunce in Marseille. In fact, anonymity was a crucial aspect of the cheikhate phenomenon, and remains so until this day. concert Last Train, Rimitti learned to survive, to sing and to dance. She has an amazing way of talking, which is close to her singing style. Dans les années soixante-dix, elle émigre en France. Country: France Released: 1995 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country. “I was fed up with doing weddings before you were even born,” she declares during our interview. “OK, so let’s talk about the new album then…Haja Rimitti, what were you trying to…”  “It’s just Cheikha Rimitti to you, no Haja if you please!” came the booming riposte. Basically, as far as Rimitti is concerned, the only thing any journalist she meets is really good for is to help her broadcast this grave injustice, this heinous crime of base ingratitude. Rimitti would often perform completely veiled, especially in front of mixed or male only audiences. Cheikha Remitti ou Rimitti, née Saadia El Ghilizania le à Tessala, près de Sidi-Bel-Abbès et morte le à Paris, est une chanteuse populaire algérienne de raï Biographie Cheikha Remitti est née en Algérie à Tessala (ville située près de Sidi Bel-Abbès, en Oranie) le 8 mai 1923|en musique. Sarah El Hamed in conversation with Professor Martin Evans on Cheikha Rimitti and her iconic role in the long history of protest music in Algeria. Rimitti, à cause de l'alcool », se souvient la Cheikha qui voulait simplement dire « remettez une tournée ». concert Izia, Genres: Raï. Issa Bagayogo and Cheikha Rimitti are the headliners. Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Rebel of Algerian Music, Is Dead By JON PARELES Cheikha Rimitti, a pioneer of the rebellious Algerian pop called ra-2006), died on May 15 in Paris, where she had lived since 1978. Oran and its surrounding regions were also ravaged by a plague of typhus, immortalised by Albert Camus in his existentialist masterpiece ‘La Peste’. Since then she has lead a modest and frugal life, split between a hotel room in the Barbès quarter of Paris and a  home in Oran, which she has been visiting regularly during the Ramadan period, when fasting and partying go hand in hand. When passed through the filter of a thick North African accent, ‘e’s tend to mutate into ‘i’s, and so the assembled crowd started to cry out, “It’s Rimitti, it’s the signer Rimitti!”   “There,” she still says, “I became ‘Rimitti’ thanks to alcohol. Cheikha Rimitti s’est éteinte d’un arrêt cardiaque à son domicile, à 83 ans rimittii 15 maideux jours après son concert au Zénith Paris où la diva chantait avec les « chebs », notamment Khaled. These proud independent women must have offered the young Saâdia a powerful role model. concert Nemir, She was given the name ‘Saâdia’, which means the happy or the fortunate one. concert Therapie Taxi, Partenaires : See Tickets Elle avait 83 ans. I’ve always had a lot of respect and a lot of time for Mr Gafaiti. En 2000, dans un "Atelier de Création Radiophonique" produit par Marie-Hélène Bernard, c'est en ces quelques mots que la doyenne du rai algérien résumait sa trajectoire. I saw all and sundry on their feet, dancing, swaying, smiling ecstatically. She took shelter in a canteen run by a local French company. Some of these songs, like ‘El Hmam’, ‘La Camel’ and ‘Mani Mani’ were snapped up by the younger generation of pop-rai chebs, covered on various releases and then registered with the French Society Of Composers, Authors and Arrangers (SACEM) as if they had written them themselves. Cheikha Remitti ou Rimitti , née Saadia El Ghilizania le 8 mai à Tessala , près de Sidi-Bel-Abbès et morte le 15 mai à Paris , est une chanteuse populaire algérienne de raï , Elle était incontestablement la mamie du raï et sa voix féminine par excellence [ 1 ]. Rimitti n’était pas femme à s’endormir. Rimitti supported the independence cause, as did other female signers like Cheikha Kheira Guendil, but she was also a popular act on colonial radio and TV stations, whose programmers valued the non-political nature of her songs and her immense popularity amongst ordinary native citizens, which was precisely the constituency that the French propaganda machine found hardest to reach. Cheikha Rimitti, better known as the Grandmother of Raï, was far more than the veteran First Lady of Raï (a musical style of Bedouin origin) which she did so much to urbanise over the years. Thanks, now we know how to get hold of you if you write anything cheeky or false. I do get a few tantalizing glimpses; a wayward recollection of performing with M’hamed Benzerga, le James Dean du rai, at a restaurant in Oran in 1959 on the night he was killed in a motorbike accident; a strange story about how a lawyer and music entrepreneur called Belhadj once acted as go-between for the famous traditional Oranais singer Cheikh Hamada whilst he was courting a French woman. Cheikha Rimitti has long harboured a deep mistrust of journalists. But she also had an ear for another tradition, a more risqué, more libertine and less time-honoured one than that of the chioukh (plural of ‘cheikh’). The air was charged with that unmistakably thrilling atmosphere that precedes a night that is more of an ‘event’ than just another ‘gig’. Have you got a card? After all I was sitting inches away from one of my all-time heroines, a living breathing and impatiently waiting piece of history. One year, Saâdia was walking through the festival with her retinue, accompanied by Cheikh Hamada and Cheikh Bouras, and was caught in a torrential downpour. It was the first time that Cheikha Rimitti had been programmed in a proper concert hall, and one that was part of one the most respected cultural centres of the Arabic Diaspora to boot. She has had another decade of life, and will hopefully have yet another one, in which to prove to the world that she is one of the greatest female voices in the Arab world and a cultural gem that Algerians from every level of society should protect, value and cherish. Cheikha Rimitti was born in Tessala, a small village in western Algeria in 1923, and named Saadia, meaning joyful. La place Cheikha Rimitti a été attribuée à une emprise du domaine public, située entre la rue de la Goutte d’Or et Polonceau dans le 18e arrondissement de la ville. The troupe no doubt afforded Rimitti a powerful musical education and a kind of ersatz family unit. Depuis les années quarante, elle se produit dans les fêtes populaires, à la radio et enregistre des disques. At around this time Rimitti met the venerable gharbi flute player Cheikh Mohammed Ould Ennems and set up a ménage with him. Remettez Rimitti. Rimitti had returned, and she was telling it like it was. Just the kind I like. Recently, I was told, a French journalist wrote an inaccurate and unkind account of the alleged debaucheries of Rimitti’s past life. Cheikha Rimitti Featuring Robert Fripp And Flea ‎– Cheikha [ Unreleased Tracks From The Sidi Mansour Album ] Label: Absolute Records (4) ‎– ABSOLCD 5 Format: CD, Album, Digipak. Her fate did not fulfil the promise of her name, and when she was still young, both her parents died. OK, so CHEIKHA Rimitti, what were you trying to do with the new album? The song was a big hit and Rimitti’s reputation was assured. It’s that ingratitude that Rimitti still finds deeply hurtful. Algeria was still a part of France, trains still ran on coal and 78rpm shellac was still the only format in town. La papesse du Raï, Cheikha Rimitti, a depuis début novembre le droit à une place qui porte son nom à Paris, dans le 18e arrondissement. Enelle mhsic un terrible accident de voiture en Algérie, trois de ses musiciens sont tués et elle tombe dans le coma [ 11 ]. Everyone had been addressing Cheikha as ‘Haja’ since the moment she arrived, but it seemed that the title conferred on Rimitti following her pilgrimage to Mecca in 1976 was off limits to all but close friends and family. Rimitti also likes lists and takes pleasures in intoning them like a Buddhist boom box. Meanwhile the entrenched apartheid of colonial Algeria heaped misfortune on the native underclass. But it remains resolutely stashed away in the vaults of Rimitti’s memory. Il n'existe pas d'archives pour l'année 2021. Rimitti’s restitution in 1994 came in good time. In the 1990s Algerian raï gained popularity in the west and Cheikha Rimitti performed at concerts around the world, collaborating with international musicians. Born poor, Rimitti sang for food, gradually developing songwriting skills. It ended a thirty-year period of official ostracism and neglect. Her eyebrows shimmied, her shoulders fluttered suggestively in time with the beat. Her grace and daring were incredibly seductive. Format: 2×CD, Year: 2002, Label: Dejavu Retro Gold Collection (R2CD 42-42), Barcode: 076119424228, Length: 1:46:13 Depuis lors, on peut l'écouter dans de nombreux festivals et des salles de concerts “normales” dans lesquelles elle installe une ambiance torride proche de la transe pour qui veut se laisser conquérir par ses rugueuses mélopées. e-ticket | I’d heard Algerian Rai music before of course, but not the raw source, and there’s one thing Cheikha … concerts à Olympia Bruno Coquatrix (75), concerts à Zenith De Lille - Arena (59), concerts à La Cigale A Paris (75), concerts à Palais Des Sports De Paris (75), concerts à Accorhotels Arena - Popb Bercy (75), concerts à Zenith De Nantes Metropole (44), concerts à Arkea Arena - Bordeaux (33), concerts à Casino De Paris (75), concerts à Zenith De Paris La Villette (75), concerts à Zenith De Toulouse (31). Je dormais chez des gens qui m’employaient à l’occasion ; chez un capitaine, un Romitti, chikh Française, j’aidais au ménage, contre un peu de sous, des habits, en endroit où dormir. Her kingdom is the spoken word, and the written opinions of hacks belong to a sphere beyond her ken, her interest and her control. The main square in the Medina Jdida, or Arab quarter of Oran, which was called the Tahtaha, was a favourite place for chioukh and cheikhates to appear. Rimitti n’était pas femme à s’endormir. Une nouvelle version de Last. Cheikha Rimitti was born on May 8, 1923 in Tessala, Algeria. She sang just how the poor rural population of her homeland speak, and to the gathered ex-pat crowd that was a refreshing epiphany of epic proportions. Rimitti doesn’t want to talk about her private life. Toute la discographie de Cheikha Rimitti : albums et chansons en streaming et téléchargement MP3. Someone suggested that she give thanks to her assembled fans by buying them a round of drinks. Cheikha Rimitti… She was a composer, known for DéParts (2010) and Rai Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba Djenet (2004). It was a town that was famed for its vineyards, its watermelon groves, its olive trees and its cheikhas. And it was as a dancer that Rimitti first began to be noticed. She would also entertain male-only audiences with other cheikhas, liberating souls from the straightjacket of respectability, sowing dreams of love, alcohol and oblivion until dawn doused everyone with its sobriety. After enduring three decades of Arabisation, corruption, deception, disappointment, moralising, cultural chastity and linguistic repression, Algeria welcomed la diva du rai back onto an official concert stage (the same welcome still hasn’t been extended by state radio and TV). She invented stuff. Quand il n’y avait plus de surveillance, rimiitti s’enfuyait. C’est le cas pour un concert Place de la République à Paris, notamment [réf. Get the Cheikha Rimitti Setlist of the concert at Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus, Brussels, Belgium on March 24, 2006 and other Cheikha Rimitti Setlists for free on setlist.fm! Other articles where Cheikha Rimitti is discussed: raï: By the early 1940s Cheikha Rimitti el Reliziana had emerged locally as a musical and linguistic luminary in the raï tradition, and she continued to be among the music’s most prominent performers into the 21st century. CHEIKHA RIMITTI en concert : La grande dame du raï algérien est décédée le 15 Mai 2006 à Paris. Discographie sélective. On 11th February 1994 I took my seat in the brute cavernous concert hall of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. CHEIKHA RIMITTI en concert : La grande dame du raï algérien est décédée le 15 Mai 2006 à Paris. What interests me are my rights, my songs and my works. Rimitti n’était pas femme à s’endormir. But 1954 was also the year in which the first salvos of the War of Independence were fired, and life in Algeria began to mutate irrevocably. It takes you straight back to the dusty plains of Oranie, and to the lives of its struggling millions. These tantalising themes were taken up by the new sirens of the age, women singers who had ventured beyond the pale of respectable society, wilfully or by force of some misfortune such as the birth of an illegitimate child, a violent husband, a forbidden love affair or just grinding poverty. Near Relizane, just by a river called Oued Rhiou, there was a shrine dedicated to Sidi Abed, the patron saint of the region. She was 83. Soyez le premier à être avertides prochains concerts De tradition paysanne, Saidia a … The cause was a heart attack, her Web site said. “Why are you asking questions about Cheikh El Khaldi, Hamada, Madani?” Gafaiti translates. Translation: ‘The Wise Landscape of the Face’ by Michel Onfray, Translation: ‘Simonobisick’s Letter’ by Blick Bassy, Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste de Kinshasa. Cheikha Rimitti – Mp3 Ecoute Telecharger music D’origine modeste et paysanne, Saidia vécut dans la culture du chant rural. souhaitée]. 3 (Queen of Rai) by Cheikha Rimitti on Apple Music. With your permission, I’m just going to indulge in a little plain-speaking myself. The Magazine Premium Theme by bavotasan.com. 1 (Algeria), L'étoile du raï, Live European Tour 2000 (feat. A book based on the story of Ibrahim ag Alhabib, founder of Tinariwen and co inventor of the Touareg guitar style, MBONGWANA STAR – Kinshasa’s Afro-junk revolutionaries, KINSHASA SYMPHONY – The art of Haydn and debrouillardise, JUPITER – Kinshasa’s rebel general stands tall, BALOJI (Part 1) – Super sorcerer of Belgo-congolese rap, ‘BENDA BILILI’ – “They never told us it was impossible…”, SOCKLO – The genius guitar maker of Kinshasa. TÉLÉCHARGER MUSIC CHIKHA RIMITTI - C'est le cas pour un concert Place de la République à Paris, notamment . concert Billx, Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Rebel of Algerian Music, Is Dead By JON PARELES Cheikha Rimitti, a pioneer of the rebellious Algerian pop called ra-2006), died on May 15 in Paris, where she had lived since 1978. At the age of 20, Rimitti settled in the agricultural centre of Relizane, sweltering in the middle of the hellishly hot plains of Oranie. Ontours.fr, Mentions Légales | Je dormais chez des gens qui m’employaient à l’occasion ; chez un capitaine, un Français, une Française, j’aidais au chioha, contre un peu de sous, des habits, en endroit où dormir. Cheikha Rimitti, Charrak Gataa‘ I previously posted on this song (usually translated as "Tear, Cut" or "Tear, Lacerate,") recorded in 1954, arguing that the claim that the song was an unambiguous call on young Algerian women to abandon their virginity. Her phrases come out like canon balls, rolling, loud and bass heavy, with little delicate grandmotherly croak trails at the end of each sentence. "I first heard Cheikha Rimitti walking past a music store in Marseilles in the late 1990’s. concert Niska, concert Indochine, Chantant l’ amour , la femme , l’ alcool , les corps emmêlés, la liberté, le féminisme … et présidant des fêtes arrosées, elle a très vite été ignorée par l’Algérie officielle. concerts à Paris (75), concerts à Lyon (69), concerts à Marseille (13), concerts à Nantes (44), concerts à Bordeaux (33), concerts à Toulouse (31), concerts à Lille (59), concerts à Bruxelles (Belgique), concerts à Rennes (35), concerts à Strasbourg (67). There was something going on, a connection, a realisation, a rediscovery, a homecoming that I could not understand or take part in. But her own road to independence was long and hard. Cheikha Rimitti died of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83 on May 15. Infoconcert sur votre site | These titbits are thrown at me like choice morsels of roast meat to a hungry dog. We can speculate what music she must have heard at that age; a mix of the rural Berber folk of her forebears, which had remained largely unchanged for centuries, like the lifestyle it serenaded, and popular poetry known as melhoun, which had been adapted by ‘urbanised’ troubadours who adopted the instruments of rural poor, the rosewood desert flute or gasba and small goblet drum or guellal, and wore the turbans and burnous of the peasantry, to create what became known as folklore Oranais or gharbi, which means music ‘from the west’. Hundreds of white canvas tents were erected and all manner of musical attractions, both extremely famous and less well known were brought in to animate this temporary ‘musical’ city. Le goût de son public a changé, elle est à présent l'une de ces vedettes des bars et clubs maghrébins de la capitale. Cheikha Rimitti (Arabic: شيخة ريميتي‎) (born سعدية الغيزانية Saadia El Ghizania, 8 May 1923 – 15 May 2006) was a popular Algerian raï female singer. Rimitti will not discuss her age or her past. Cheikha Rimitti, Composer: DéParts. Cheikha Rimitti – Mp3 Ecoute Telecharger music . Elle venait d’enregistrer Nrohou nzorou avec le jeune Cheb Najim qui a été programmé dans plusieurs festivals l’été suivant. Cheikha Rimitti helped put raï music on the map–a cool, groovy style that originated in the Algerian port city of Oran in the 1920s, a mix of Bedouin folk music, French, Spanish, African and Arabic music. Toute la discographie de Cheikha Rimitti : albums et chansons en streaming et téléchargement MP3. TÉLÉCHARGER CHEIKHA RIMITTI NOUAR - Cheb Anouar - Saoulouh Prix: Locale Bedoui, Gasba, Reggada Kader Japonais - El 3ichk el mamnou3 Prix: C'est le cas pour un concert Place de la République Listen to La Rimitti, Vol. Rimitti was one of the great cheikhas of modern rai, releasing her first recording in 1952, but it was her 1954 release, "Charrak, Gattaa," that made her renowned, and infamous, throughout Algeria. Elle est imprégnée très jeune par le chant rural [ 3 ]. I you've been enjoying my website, please consider making a donation. She was a performer right to the end; she had just performed in Paris two days before she died. Cheikha Rimitti was one of the most influential singers in the development of the popular Algerian music style known as Rai. It could also bring considerable fame, and some of the favours that accompany it. This style shared the rural sounds of gharbi, but its lyrical content belonged to the same family tree as the zendani, or tavern songs which were paeans to the pleasures and pain of alcohol, carnal love, feasts and all-night revelry, very popular amongst those at the bottom rung of society’s ladder. The story of how Rimitti earned her own stage name is a revealing one, that has been told many many times. I heard middle age women dressed in Parisian chic ululating like Maghrebi banshees. Ethnomusicology is not my predilection.”. It was also at one of these wa’adat that Rimitti was spotted by a talent scout for the Pathé Marconi Company and in 1952 she released her first 78 for them, featuring the classic ‘Errai Errai’, followed by ‘Trig Tmouchent’ and ‘Gasmou Tiaret’. First published in fRoots Magazine, May 2004. Thus began Rimitti’s long fall from official grace and favour. Rimitti began to sing about these terrifying realities, not in a polemic or analytical way, but rather like a mirror coloured with cautionary tales, idioms, double entendres, popular epithets and the rich patois of the region, reflecting the woes, aspirations, trials and tribulations of the ordinary man and woman.