A standing ovation for Outlandish

I first heard the song "Aicha" on a Sky Music channel and I was totally captivated by it. What an intelligent, beautiful and haunting song, I couldn't believe my ears and eyes as I watched and listened for the few minutes it flashed across my TV screen.

I had to find out more about this group "Outlandish" and I went straight online and began to dig around. Most of the internet hits took me to Danish sites of course but I found a few English ones that I could browse through and get more information about the song and its singers. Of course I was delighted that the group had an Album out and I purchased it immediately. I was a bit worried I might not like any of the other songs but I needn't have worried. They were all as intelligent and as well sung as "Aicha" was.

I was also amazed about the group's three young singers who come from such diversely different backgrounds. How were they able to come together and create such amazing lyrics and music?

Perhaps it was their common experience of being strangers in a strange land? "Aicha" is a song/rap about a Muslim girl looking after her family and the life she leads in exile. Perhaps this is a song that goes to the heart of the group itself which is made of up of refugees/asylum seekers?

All the lyrics to all the songs are intelligent and heartfelt and I have only ever heard intelligent rap from people like "Miss Dynamite", Coolio with his song "Gangsta's Paradise" and on occasions the brutally honest Eminem.

This Album certainly deserves to be a bestseller. This is an absolute must for any rap/soul/world music lover who wants something that is a little different but totally addictive.

aicha

This song Aicha is great, but it is a cover of the song Aiysha

by Cheb Khaled. I dislike it that people are giving credit to Outlandish for the song lyrics as they were just translated from french. There is no doubt that Outlandish is a good group, but i think that credit should be given to Khaled for this song.

Aicha - a Homage to Khaled

This album is great, and Aicha is a thoughtful, lovely song. It is not simply a direct translation from Khaled's Aicha (also very moving), which is sung in French, as has been stated by a previous reviewer. The verses are different, but still poetic. it is more an homage and the singers do honor Khaled, in the line, "aicha, ecoutez moi." I'd recommend this album and Khaled's album so you can hear both together.