Lover's Rai

Editorial Reviews

From The Label
Lovers Rai at its best with the Prince of sentimental love songs. here, Hasni's ability to dance and to love are portrayed in some of his finest moments of commercial release.

Product Description
Algerian Rai Music from the Prince of Rai, Hani Chekroune. This CD collects his greatest tracks from the 1980's - the peak of his career.

Lover's Rai

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Lover's Rai
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Brilliant and deeply moving voice
  • The gentleman of Rai
  • Anything the Prince Did was Gold
  • the inspiration of one women
  • hasni
 Lover's Rai
Cheb Hasni
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000003AL
Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

  1. May God Help Me
  2. That Forlorn Person
  3. You Ask For Seperation
  4. I Know Why You Are Crying
  5. Don't Cry This My Destiny
  6. My Suffering Was Long
  7. I Know You Now
  8. I Want A Beautiful Woman
  9. I Still Have The Souvenir
  10. You The Healer

Album Description

Algerian Rai Music from the Prince of Rai, Hani Chekroune. This CD collects his greatest tracks from the 1980's - the peak of his career.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Brilliant and deeply moving voice.......2005-10-25

Cheb Hasni was to be the torch bearer of rai after Khaled before he was mercilously gunned down in his native Algeria. This event ineluctably has given his music an increased resonance, especially songs such as "Don't cry this my destiny" which contains an out-of-this-world synthesizer motif. "I still have the souvenir" is another outstanding track, and never have I heard a vocal style imitate so vividly the torment of memory and love. The only negatives of the album are its unevenness and the quality of the recording; the latter is, of course, not surprising since Hasni, like many other rai artists, recorded masters directly onto cassette tapes.

5 out of 5 stars The gentleman of Rai.......2003-05-26

I love this cd. It covers some of his best years in the 80's and early 90's. The melancholy, the sad beauty in his voice is chilling but gently so.

5 out of 5 stars Anything the Prince Did was Gold.......2003-04-23

His voice is finer than Khaled's in it's twisting around emotion. The arrangements are complex, highly syncopated - often with a samba feel.
So much more the tragedy of his demise - when religious zealots steal music (the true religion) from our needy souls.
This is a good starting palce to explore Rai, since it's not as pop as some of the bigger names but very danceable.

3 out of 5 stars the inspiration of one women.......2002-11-08

All cheb Hasni`s songs evolve around one woman,some times she`s blond(bayda) and others tanned (zarga).Hasni`s songs come in the forme of rymed lyrics and poemes spiced with love to the extent of crasiness(mousiba)and the end of life .
The love or MOUSIBA has not only inspired hasni`s artistic side but has given him something more sacred,his son ABD ALLAH.
to tell the truth.Hasni`s songs are the lyrics of millions of north maghrebian youth.the fact which makes HAsni not only the spokes man of these youth but the king of RAI.

5 out of 5 stars hasni.......2001-07-23

if just you can understand really you'll see that HASNI was and still forever the BEST , just he hadn't enough time to great celebrity but he is ours ... he is the BEST .

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