Kutché is a studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 from Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

n artists Cheb Khaled

Khaled (musician)

Khaled Hadj Ibrahim , better known as Khaled, is a raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Sidi El Houari in Oran Province of Algeria...

 and Safy Boutella

Safy Boutella

Safy Boutella is an Algerian jazz musician, who plays both bass guitar and synthesizer.He is the father of famous dancer Sofia Boutella.- Discography :Studio albums*Kutché - with Khaled...

. It is the only collaboration between the two artists. Khaled would later rise to be one of the most famous raï

Raï

Raï is a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s....

 artists outside Algeria, while Safy Boutella would continue his career as a jazzman in Europe.

The album was re-released by Stern's Music and Intuition Music.

Track listing

1. "La Camel" – 5:33
2. "Kutché" – 5:59
3. "El Lela" – 5:02
4. "Baroud" – 3:58
5. "Chebba" – 5:48
6. "Hana-Hana" – 5:26
7. "Chab Rassi" – 5:04
8. "Minuit" – 5:51

Miscellanea

The main title of the album Kutché is the adaptation of a popular Moroccan

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 song "mul al Kutché", meaning "owner of the Kutché", which is a kind of barouche

Barouche

A barouche was a fashionable type of horse-drawn carriage in the 19th century. Developed from the calash of the 18th century, it was a four-wheeled, shallow vehicle with two double seats inside, arranged vis-à-vis, so that the sitters on the front seat faced those on the back seat...

 used to transport people in some Moroccan towns (mainly tourists nowadays) like Marrakesh or Meknes

Meknes

Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located from the capital Rabat and from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway. Meknes was the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail , before it was relocated to Marrakech. The...

, it originates from the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

coche,this album sold 1 million copies.