In June 2010, Terrakota celebrated its 10th birthday with the avant-première of the documentary ‘On top of the world – Roadmovie of Terrakota in the Himalayas’ about the band’s adventures in India and with a big, three-hour long concert in Lisbon with a battery of guests. That same month, the bands first single of it’s upcoming fourth album came out, ‘World Massala’, a first product of the band’s trip to India. The single is a groundbreaking musical fusion that might never have been done before: Punjabi afro-reggae. Bridging the gap between India and Jamaica, but also between Rajasthani folk and classical India. While the gypsy musicians of Rajasthan Roots take care of the

rhythm and give the song some authentic gypsy guts, the carnatic singers Mahesh Vinyakram and Bollywood-star Vasundhara Das take the song to new mystical heights.

The single announced the arrival of the fourth studio album, “WORLD MASSALA” (2010), recorded and produced and released in October 2010 by Ojo Música/Galileo Music Communication. On this new work, Terrakota keeps on mashing up frontiers to bring together music and people from around the world, expanding their musical horizons to Rajasthan, Angola, classical India, urban Cuba, and beyond. Terrakota’s Afro/world mestizo explosion now also has a proper term: world massala! World standing for world music and massala for the fusion, as massala is a mixture of species used a lot in

Indian cuisine. The recipe? Bringing new innovative musical fusions without any fear of experiment, just jamming until you find a formula where ancient musical traditions embrace the 21st century.

Other than the Indian guests, the album includes recordings with the Angolan singer-songwriter Paulo Flores, the Cuban rapper Kumar and keyboard, bass and brass from the Lisbon-based funkband Cool Hipnoise. That song with brass is a powerful afrobeat, born in the wake of the band’s side-project, the KotaCool Afrobeat Orchestra, that has done some powerful gigs around Lisbon since 2009.

[b]01. World Massala

02. Kay Kay

03. Ilegal

04. I am

05. Slow Food

06. Né Djarabi

07. Pé na Tchon

08. Chelo Habibi

09. Gripe Económica

10. Ualelepo

11. Raíz[/b]

Souad Massi is the artist guiding the new generation of Algerian musicians. With her sweet voice, she sings in Arabic music that is close to folk-rock, a delicate Algerian folk-rock rich in soft harmonies, which she reinforces with human and sensitive lyrics. Born in Alger in 1972 into a family of artists, at the age of 17 she Souad she was already running on the stages of her country, guitar on her shoulder, performing solo. In his training he has drawn from many musical sources: folk, country, classical music, Arabic-Andalusian, Algerian chaâbi, raï... His music is influenced by the three cultures that coexist in his native Algeria: the Amazigh culture of Kabylia (Berber), Arabic and French.

She publishes her first work in 1997 and breaks sales records. She begins to have difficulties in her country (for which she represented the free expression of a woman) and that is when she receives an invitation to participate in the "Women of Algeria" festival. Paris discovers Souad Massi and is impressed by her presence, overcoming language barriers. After the concert, she signed with the Island-Mercury label the publication of Raoui in 2001, with a reception that exceeded all her forecasts. She also had the support of some of her countrymen such as Idir, the Orchester National de Barbès and other musicians with whom she shared the stage; later he recorded some duets with recognized artists, of which "Noir et blanc" stood out, recorded with Ismael Lô, a song that arises as a reaction to the xenophobic wave that travels the world after the events of September 11 in New York and that is included as bonus track on a later edition of the disc.

Tracks list:

01. Raoui

02. Bladi

03. Amessa

04. Tant pis pour moi

05. Noir et blanc (duo con Ismael Lô)

06. Hayati

07. Nekreh el Kelb

08. Denya

09. Khsara Aalik

10. Rani Rayha

11. J'ai pas de temps

12. Awham

13. Lamen

14. Enta Dari

15. Matebkiche

16. Paris (duo con Marc Lavoine)

17. Tant pis pour moi (versión single)

Sitio web oficial: Souad Massi