Maurice El Médioni

Maurice El Médioni is an interpreter of of Algiers Chaâbi originating in a family of musicians of a Jewish district of Oran in Algérie. It remains one of the most faithful interpreter and representative of the arabo-Andalusian Musique and sépharade and one of the rare artists living who with played with artists like Lili Labassi, Line Monty, Lili Boniche, Samy el Maghribi, or Reinette the Oranian.

Biography

In its birthplace in the Fifties, it starts by gradually working the new sounds of the Raï.

In 1961, Maurice El Médioni leaves Algeria to emigrate in Israel where he will remain some time before settling in France, in Paris then in Marseilles where he saw and always works there.

Amateur of jazz, Maurice El Médioni will also be interested in the Boogie woogy and the Latin Musique and becomes the inventor of the style pianoriental (fusion of Jazz and Rumba transposing with ease the quarter tone of the Arab Oud on the Western keyboard, for the mâtiner of jazz, boogie-woogie and tempos latinos. It regularly is seen accompanying Fouad Didi in concerts by arabo-Andalusian music.

In 2006, in the 78 years age, Maurice el Medioni publishes its fourth album, recorded in New York with the cuban group of Roberto Rodriguez, a cuban percussionnist of New York which says of him: “Maurice El Medioni is a true original. In his music, one hears of all: Jewish liturgy with the Spoke, Spanish lovesongs in Salsa, until the Jitterbug and with the Jazz. The music is as rich and exquisite as that of the large musicians originating in Cuba… By listening to its music, connection between Arabic and Sépharade became very clear; it there with the strong presence of the African rates/rhythms and beautiful and romantic melodies, as in a cuban song. ”

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