1,2,3 Soleils

1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3
Live album by Rachid Taha, Khaled and Faudel
Released	1999
Recorded	September 26, 1998
Venue	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris
Genre	Raï
Length	96:44
Label	Barclay
Producer	Steve Hillage
Rachid Taha chronology
Khaled chronology
Faudel chronology

1, 2, 3 Soleils (1, 2, 3 Suns) is a live album performed by Algerian artists Rachid Taha, Khaled and Faudel, widely hailed as the three masters of raï music. The concert, a unique event, took place in 1998 in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, and the songs consisted of the most famous from all three artists plus a few Algerian classics. All 23 were divided into two discs, produced and arranged by Steve Hillage, released by Barclay in 1999.

The album has attained 2× gold certification and the DVD video has attained gold certification from Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique.^[1]^[2]

A shortened US one compact disc release of the album was released by Ark 21.

Track listing

Disc One
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Khalliouni Khalliouni"	Instrumental	5:39
2.	"Menfi"	Taha, Khaled, Faudel	5:41
3.	"Eray"	Faudel, Khaled	4:40
4.	"N'ssi N'ssi"	Khaled	5:14
5.	"Ida"	Taha	7:08
6.	"Baida"	Faudel	5:42
7.	"Omri"	Faudel, Taha	5:44
8.	"Voilà Voilà"	Taha, Faudel, Khaled	5:50
9.	"Indie"	Taha, Khaled	5:38
10.	"Chebba"	Khaled, Taha, Faudel	5:30
11.	"Sahra"	Khaled	4:42

Disc Two
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Madeeh"	Khaled	7:24
2.	"Wahrane Wahrane"	Khaled	4:58
3.	"Les Ailes"	Khaled	5:14
4.	"Le Camel"	Khaled, Faudel	5:28
5.	"Abdel Kader"	Khaled, Taha, Faudel	5:12
6.	"Bent Sahra"	Khaled, Taha	7:21
7.	"Aïcha"	Khaled, Faudel	6:51
8.	"Tellement N'Brick"	Faudel	9:10
9.	"Didi"	Khaled, Taha, Faudel	6:08
10.	"Ya Rayah"	Taha, Khaled, Faudel	7:28
11.	"Daiman" (Bonus)	Taha, Khaled, Faudel	4:15
12.	"Comme d'Habitude" (Bonus)	Taha, Khaled, Faudel	4:15

Professional rating

Allmusic rated it 4 out of 5.^[3]

Personnel

Khaled, Faudel and Rachid Taha were supported by:

Zachary Alford -^[4] drums
Aziz Ben Salam - ney flute
Elsa Benabdallah - violin
Mohamed Bendjebour - guitar
Djaffar Bensetti - trumpet
Farhat Bouallagui - arranger, string arrangements, violin
Christophe Briquet - viola
Karen Brunon - leader, string director, violin
Mathieu Chédid - guitar
Mohsein Chentouf - bendir, darbouka, backing vocals
Simon Clarke - baritone saxophone
Khaled Dagher - cello
Gail Ann Dorsey - bass, backing vocals
Adel Eskande - violin
Guillaume Fontanarosa - violin
Steve Hillage - arranger, engineer, mixing, producer, string arrangements
Allen Hoist - alto and tenor saxophone
Hazem Ibrahim - violin
Randy Jacobs - guitar
Nabil Khalidi - banjo, oud, backing vocals
Hassan Lachal - darbouka
Sylvain Le Provost - double bass
Roddy Lorimer - trumpet
Abdel Wahab Mansy - violin
Jean-Max Mery - keyboards
Christophe Morin - cello
Hossam Ramzy - director, orchestra director, percussion
Geoffrey Richardson - string arrangements, viola
Medhat Abdel Samie - violin
Tim Sanders - soprano and tenor saxophone
Mahmoud Serour - string arrangements
Mark London Sims - trombone
Taha Taha - cello
Yasser Taha - cello
Ihab Tutu - violin
Marylene Vinciguerra - viola
Tamer Yassin - violin

Source:^[5]

References

^ "Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique gold certified albums for the year 1999". Archived from the original on 2006-11-23. Retrieved 2006-07-29.
^ "Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique gold certified videos for the year 1999". Archived from the original on 2006-11-18. Retrieved 2006-07-29.
^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r568570
^ Discogs - Zachary Alford - (profile & discography)
^ "1,2,3 Soleils (Credits)". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

External links

1, 2, 3 Soleils album

[1] "Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique gold certified albums for the year 1999". Archived from the original on 2006-11-23. Retrieved 2006-07-29.

[2] "Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique gold certified videos for the year 1999". Archived from the original on 2006-11-18. Retrieved 2006-07-29.

[3] ttps://www.allmusic.com/album/r568570

[4] Discogs - Zachary Alford - (profile & discography)

[alllm-5] "1,2,3 Soleils (Credits)". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

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v t e Khaled
Studio albums	Kutché (1988) Khaled (1992) N'ssi N'ssi (1993) Sahra (1996) Kenza (1999) Ya-Rayi (2004) Liberté (2009) C'est la vie (2012)
Live albums	Hafla (1998) 1,2,3 Soleils (1999)
Compilations	Best of Khaled (2007)
Songs/singles	"Didi" "Serbi Serbi" "Aïcha" "La Poupée qui fait non" "Le Jour Viendra" "Abdel Kader" "Comme d'habitude" "C'est la nuit" "El harba wine" "Même pas fatigué !!!" "C'est la vie"

v t e Rachid Taha
Studio albums	Barbès (1991) Rachid Taha (1993) Olé, Olé (1995) Diwân (1998) Made in Medina (2000) Tékitoi (2004) Diwan 2 (2006) Bonjour (2009) Zoom (2013)
Compilation albums	Carte Blanche (1997) The Definitive Collection (2007) Rock N Raï (2008)
Live albums	1,2,3 Soleils (1999) Rachid Taha Live (2001)
Related topics	Carte de Séjour