fantastic music discovery

[alonewiththemoon]

Poking around on eMusic last night, I found an album called Blonde dans la Casbah by an Algerian singer named Biyouna--I am in love with this woman and her music!  She's like the Algerian Eartha Kitt, with a French Balkan Gypsy tropicalia blues tango band backing her up, singing in both Arabic and French.  I would think she would appeal to fans of Eartha Kitt, Etta James, Jane Birken, Diamanda Galas, the band Beirut, Serge Gainesbourg and French singer-songwriters in general.  I am going to have to look up her movies, I can't imagine the magnificence this woman must have on screen!  (I feel like Camile Paglia raving about Brazilian divas, but there you go)

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