Crimi Chi ci talia

Riding over an urgent, North African infected groove, Chi Ci Talia is the latest preview from Crimis forthcoming Luci e Guai LP an eightsong serving stitching together Algerian rai, hard New Orleans funk and Sicilian folk balladry that comes out on French imprint Airfono this April. Formed in 2018, Crimi finds Julien, a musician with over 20 years of experience, collaborating with a brand new trio of players. However, it is the singer sax players past ventures that combine to explain how he hit on this sound specifically his work with Mazalda, from Lyon, who evolved from jazzy pop oddballs into a drumheavy live dance party with their own fiftyspeaker traveling Soundsystem, the Turbo Clap Station. In recent years, they branched out into rai first meeting Algerian singer Cheb Lakhdar and backing him in a series of concerts, and later recording an album, El Ndjoum, with Sofiane Saidi, a star of rais new electrowave whos also featured with Parisian duo Acid Arab. (Mazalda and Sofiane proved