New Release: Areski - Long Courrier

Few loves last a lifetime, and even fewer artistic careers keep the creative flame intact. Areski Belkacem is one of those rare artists for whom the creative impulse remains unaltered. With Long courrier, his third solo album in almost 60 years, he delivers twelve songs like so many love letters, carried by a disarming sincerity.

Far from commercial diktats, Areski follows his own path, faithful to an intimate vision of music. He celebrates love, pleasure, the beauty hidden in everyone, and marginal souls, with tenderness and depth. His gentle voice and compositions combining percussion, chaabi guitar, piano, accordion and electric guitars extend this poetry of the heart - always in echo with his long-time accomplice, Brigitte Fontaine.