Originally issued as BERBER SINGING GOES WORLD, this release reflects the retirement of one of the Messaoudi sisters as Iness Mezel pursues a solo career on the World Music scene. WEDFEL retains the original tracks and sequence but adds 2 radio edits to assist broadcast formatters whose interest in Iness Mezel may have grown with the awarding of 2 Kora Africa Music Awards for Best New Artist and Best North AFrican Artist. Additionally, the English translations of the … mehrTamazight (Berber native North African language) lyrics are easier to read in a more handsome aqua-toned booklet.
When thinking of Algeria and North Africa, the American reference points tend to be Arabic and Andalusian, or the French Colonization until the expulsion of the French in 1962 following the Battle of Algiers. A well-kept secret is the Amazigh Culture and People (or as they are known in a somewhat disparaging way, The Berbers, which means Barbarians). Actually, as a listen to Iness Mezel will illustrate, it isn't the Amazigh and Tamazight-speaking Tuareg tribes who are North Africa's barbarians. Rather, as history is written by the victors (unless one is Palestinian) it is the barbarism of the Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Arabs, Spanish Catholics, Ottoman Turks, the French, and post-colonial Middle Eastern Arabs again who were the victors of many historical and brutal conquests that have never quite been able to completely vanquish, enslave, or otherwise co-opt some 40 million speakers of the Amazigh-Berber language in North Africa. weniger

1Wedfel (Radio Edit)
2Ado
3Aya Hedat (Radio Edit)
4Agour
5Ifassen… mehr
6Awah
7Laaven Yissnau (Intro)
8Laaven Yissnau
9Lahvev
10Taiga
11Aya Hedat
12Our Yi Nouu
13Slassen Kan
14Wedfel weniger