Blonde dans la Casbah
Studio album by Biyouna
Released	2006
Recorded	October 17, 2006 to July 2007
Genre	Pop, Raï, rock, Jazz
Length	46:50
Label	Warner
Producer	Joseph Racaille

Blonde dans la Casbah is Biyouna's second album, released in January 2007. Its most prominent song is single Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah, a song dedicated to Biyouna's mother, which has since gone to number one in several countries.

Contents 1 About the album 2 Publicity, promotion, and singles 3 Track listing 4 Charts 5 References 6 External links

[edit] About the album

In Blonde dans la Casbah, produced by the composer Joseph Racaille, the actress-singer gave us a second album, a cabaret, served by arrangements with delicate inlays piano, violin and brass, guitar and mandolin. Galette sweets outdated Blonde dans la Casbah gives us to discover a Biyouna subscribes to the sixties of his first steps and his dreams still intact. There are duets pleased with Christophe ("La Man"), the diva Afro-English Malia soul-jazz ("Bismilah"), Didier Wampas ("Merci pour tout"), and takeovers warm El Hachemi Guerouabi ("El Barah"), and Kamel Messaoudi ("Echemaa"). Biyouna, who sings her small and large burns with a touch of insolence, it is by turns poignant ("Bismillahi", "La Man"), crazy ("Les Coyotes", "Merci pour tout"), theater ("Demain tu te maries","Merci pour tout"). With special mentions in particular "Ta'ali", a ballad signed Mohamed El-Hamel and Mohamed Iguerbouchène, two major figures of the song Algerian between the two world wars. For "Tomorrow you get married" again, a tube of Patricia Carli in the sixties that Biyouna wished to resume. Special mention also for the spillage "Bismillahi", "La Man" and "Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah," which gave its name to the album, a tribute to the mother and accomplice to the artist disappeared last year to 84 years. Without forgetting "Tsaabli ouetmili" in the form of reverence to Fadela Dzirya and "El Ghafel" concocted by Djamel Laroussi.

[edit] Publicity, promotion, and singles

Born of a sudden heart of Olivier Gluzman - now his agent who went to look for it in Algiers - Blonde dans la Casbah was released October 17 by Naïve. With training grounds which includes poly-instrumentalist virtuoso Henri Agnel (guitars) and Mustapha Mataoui (piano), Biyouna gave the premiere in Paris on stage in a series of concerts at Divan du Monde. Biyouna this with the promotion of his record from January 2007 until this day. The great success that has made the hard Biyouna made presentations at several locations mostly in (Algeria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom). By the year 2008, Biyouna plans to expand its disk presentations to North America, where the songs Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah, Taali and Tsaabli ouetmili have had much success.

[edit] Track listing

(all songs written by Biyouna, Christophe, Kamel Messaoudi)

1. "Taali" – 4:36
2. "Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah" – 3:20
3. "Demain tu te maries" – 4:25 Patricia Carli song
4. "El Ghafel" – 2:55
5. "Les coyotes" – 3:18
6. "Tsaabli ouetmili" – 3:31
7. "Merci pour tout (c'que j'n'ai pas), feat Didier Wampas" – 3:22
8. "Echemaa" – 5:46
9. "Bismilah, feat Malia" – 5:38
10. "El Bareh" – 5:03 Guerouabi song
11. "La man (With the participation of Christophe)" – 4:15

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position[1]
Algeria Album Chart	1
Belgian Flandres Albums Chart	2
Canada Albums Chart	25
France Album Chart	1
Germany Album Chart	28
Hungary Album Chart	16
Mexico Album Chart	27
Morocco Album Chart	1
Netherlands Albums Chart	11
Switzerland Album Chart	2
Billboard Türkiye	7
United Kingdom Album Chart	68
US Billboard 200	121
Arabic Album Chart	7
Europe Album Chart	13

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Biyouna
• Biyouna Fnac