do him the justice--and themselves the favour--of listening to Khaled: The Best of the Early Years, because those early years are indubitably the best of him. It's not just that in these 70s tracks you can smell the desert: it's the whole aesthetic that originally propelled him to fame. Born in Oran in 1960, this garage-worker's son first accompanied himself on oil-cans before he explored what he could do with the harmonium, guitar, flute and accordion; by the time he was 14 he had his own band, and earned his bucks at weddings. Elvis Presley was his hero, in acknowledgment of which he took the title "The King of Rai"; like Elvis, he had absolute mastery of his vocal art. But what he also had on these 10 tracks were the services of some first-rate musicians, including a rebab player with whose haunting sound he plays beguiling antiphonal tricks; the saxophonist is just as good. On the wings of the lightest of percussion, Khaled and his friends sail through all the emotions of young love. --Michael Church
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