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Karim Ziad

Karim Ziad has been played on NTS shows including Discostan, with Sandiya first played on 9 May 2019.

Karim Ziad (b. 1966) is an Algerian jazz drummer and percussionist, who also sings and plays guitar and gimbri (a three-stringed plucked lute originating in West Africa, but now traditional in Moroccan adn Algerian music).

Born and brought up in Algeria, Ziad moved to Paris when he was twenty, and quickly became involved with the jazz and "world-music" scene there. He has played with Cheb Mami, the WDR Big Band, the Zawinul Syndicate, and Nguyên Lê, as well as releasing his own albums.

Ziad combines traditional rhythms from…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Sandiya
Karim Ziad
ACT2001
Sandiya
Karim ZiadACT2001
Discogs
Bouyandi
Karim Ziad, Hamid El Kasri
Accords Croisés2010
Bouyandi
Karim Ziad, Hamid El KasriAccords Croisés2010
Discogs