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Musician: Abdelkadar Saadoun
Location: London
Instruments: Voice/ Derbouka/ Bendir/ Mandole
Music: Algerian / ¸é²¹Ã¯
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (2.43) to Abdelkader Saadoun (vocals and derbouka) perform "Inchalah" accompanied by Yazid Fentazi (oud)
ÌýÌýListen (2.13) to Abdelkader Saadoun (vocals and derbouka) perform "Abdelkader" accompanied by Yazid Fentazi (oud) and friends
ÌýÌýListen (3.17) to Abdelkader Saadoun talk about his music
 ÌýÌýWatch Abdulkader Saadoun and his band perform at Womad 2002.
Where I Play:
We play at festivals, parties, restaurants, weddings - wherever there is a space and people want to ask me. We were very lucky this summer because we played most of the big festivals in the UK. Most Friday nights we play in a restaurant called 'Moors the Pleasure' in Hampstead, London. I've recorded three CDs so far and I'm working on a new one.
 My main aim is to teach people our culture and music. I think world music is something amazing because behind every song and behind every artist there is a story. You can learn a lot of stuff through the music, you don't actually have to understand the lyrics. It's very important for my world music that I keep the traditional instruments like the derbouka, the bandir and the other hand drums, the mandole (the big version of the mandolin), the flute and violins. Also, I want to take this music to another level. I've travelled a lot and met very interesting artists - talented jazz musicians, Spanish artists, English artists - so I'm trying to create something and combine these cultures using some other rhythms and some other instruments mixed in with traditional instruments. That's my ambition, my project: to give to people something different - Algerian music with some ingredients from Tunisia, from Morocco, from England, from Spain, from Jamaica and wherever, but still Algerian music. Because music is universal everywhere you go.
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