ALECH by CARTHAGO

Carthago: Rare tunisian disco including unreleased instrumentals and eight page booklet - well recommended!!Carthago was founded in the late 1970s as a fusion of Dalton and a second band called Marhaba Band. Both bands frequently played at hotels and night clubs in Tunis and Sousse. They had similar musical influences and despite the fact that they were competition for the most part, they came up with the idea to join forces for a new band. Musically Carthago kept on walking on the musical path of Dalton and Marhaba but incorporated disco music, a new style that was making its way to North Africa from Europe and North America. The band had quite some success on local radio and played a number of big shows with thousands of people showing up. The band�s concerts were a mixture of their own compositions as well as cover versions of the hits of the time from Stevie Wonder to Chicago. At the end of the 70s they went to Paris to record their only, self titled album. For this reissue Habibi picked out two tracks: �Hanen� and the outstanding disco version of the Dalton track �Alech� Photgrapher Hassen Turki started taking photos at a young age and when he was 18 he started going to the gigs of the bands of the time that were playing in the Marhaba Hotel which was managed by his father at the time. He became friends with the bands and ended up being the person to be asked when it came to shooting the photos for the covers of the records. After some research Habibi managed to get in touch with Hassen and met him in his hometown Sousse. Luckily he kept most of the negatives of the photos he took resulting in the feature of some unseen photos