ossory
Algiers as an unpaid invoice: two voices trade a grain bill and a fly-whisk swat through the Casbah, Bab El Oued, Belouizdad and the villa hill — a listed roof that still falls in, a metro that hit a Roman city, a monument standing over a shopping centre, every claim in it true.
The Bill For The Wheat
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Style
Fast Algerian chaabi driven into rock at 152 BPM (a 6/8 lilt under a hard 2/4 chorus), with mandole and banjo ostinatos, deep frame drum and darbouka, qanun and violin answering the vocal and walking upright bass, carried by two equal Darja-accented English leads trading in blocks over a crowded street-chorus climax.