The Oriental Cabaret is the music of a time when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together in north Africa, and until recently they did in another paradise lost: Sarajevo. An emotional time whose capital was Argel, where ran a cabaret where others would mourn the sorrows of love.
A few months ago I had the fortune to work closely with Fermin Muguruza in the preparation of a documentary series about music that is known in Arab countries and, field, are much more.
The music scene that we discovered in Algeria left us short of desolate.