Tunisian music underground

The Tunisian music underground refers to the music interpreted by artists Tunisia NS in a style different from that of the traditional current. It is often indicated like an alternative music.

The use of the term “underground” to define an Arab music scene revêt a significance slightly different that generally known in Occident. Since the contemporary music scene in Tunisia gathers a limited number of musical styles, the music underground includes all the artists or groups who sing or compose in a different kind (Electronic music, Rap, Reggae, Rock “roll, metal, etc).

Characteristics

Although still young person, the Tunisian scene underground is in rapid growth. The 5 to 10 last years saw the emergence of a great number of new groups who devote themselves to various musical styles. However, the most active scenes remain indisputably the heavy metal and rep. the majority of the Tunisian groups of heavy metal, Dark metal and gothic sings in English. Certain groups compose their own musics whereas others make recoveries.

Tunisian Rap

Since the whole beginning of the Years 1990, one sees in Tunisia some artists and groups to venture on local scenes (T-Men, Ouled Bled, Brigade Parazit' S, Light Happy, etc) with a success limited to a sphere of initiates, these same artists remaining completely unknown for the large majority of Tunisian youth. This artistic wave developing from generation to generation, one finds rappeurs singing more and more in Tunisian (Arab Dialecte local). This scene rap is very active and productive - with the birth of X-Master Production creates by Brigade Parazit' S - but suffers from the lack of at the same time official support and the local editors.

This lack of support is in particular due to the contents of some titles of rap denouncing the social injustices, the Chômage, the Corruption, etc This scene rap is under monitoring, especially since the appearance of an anonymous artist with a title denouncing clearly violences of the police force. This artist even presents him, in one of his Couplet S, with the denomination “Jdidi since the poor districts”. This same title which does not hesitate to borrow from the Argot Tunisian sound language more believed, circulates amply “under the coat” in the young people who would be identified there in mass.

Tunisian rock'n'roll

Contrary to the rappeurs, the Tunisian Scène rock'n'roll knew how to be played of prohibited for finally leaving the marginality and being offered a glare to the general public: The selection of the group Barzakh to contribute to the price of the best Tunisian group at the time of the 18th edition of the Festival of the Tunisian song in March 2007 was a surprise for all except for the members of the jury of selection of this festival which wanted to crown a group which privileged the texts in Arabic or Tunisian dialect, texts which had a strong poetic tone and Métaphysique in total contrasts with the majority of the other rock groups who were considered to be static to see even regressive by their composition in English and their occidentalized formatting. The selection of Barzakh, even if it were not haloed by the price of the best group in question, was perceived as being the official recognition by its pars musicians, type-setters and other frameworks of the Tunisian art of the local scene rock'n'roll.

Interest of the media

The media interest as for the scene underground in Tunisia is relatively limited and is confined with some sporadic interventions which come to give echoes to the topicality of the Festival S in progress, in particular when a festival would sponsor artists belonging to this kind. A good mention however is precisely reserved for Zanzana , the weekly appointment of the amateurs of rock'n'roll and metal on RTCI. This emission is animated by Karim Ben Amor which with the passing of years seemed a promoter of the culture underground in Tunisia.

As regards the clean terminology, the first appearances of this term in the Tunisian media go back to March 2006 for the media written under the feather of the journalist Kerim Bouzouita. On another side, Jawhara FM, private radio station which emits since Sousse, devoted quite front, as of July 2005, with its organizer Elyes Slim Ghedira (more known by its Pseudonyme of Adonis ) a weekly space, “Oasis, the appointment of the Tunisian underground”, an emission precisely devoted to the Tunisian scene underground.

Some groups

The Tunisian scene underground revealed some groups, in particular based in Europe, among which one can quote Neshez or Zemeken.

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