Rachid "goes back to his roots" Vol II. If the first Diwan was your cup of mint tea then you will delighted by this CD. On the surface a mainly acoustic album (look at all those musicians and their instruments listed below!), but there are also some very sympathetically clever production values at play here as well as Steve enhances and supports those sounds in a way which en-riches the whole listening experience. Faint echoes of the Led Zepped '???' can still be detected on a couple of tracks.

And I must hold my hand up and admit to being a sucker for those Arabic string sounds.

1. Ecoute Moi Camarade (M.Mazouni)
2. Rani M'Hayer (M.Abdillah/B.Houari)
3. Agatha (F.Bebey)
4. Kifache Rah (D.El Harrachi/S.Si Ahmed)
5. Josephine (R.Taha/R.Taha - S.Hillage)
6. Gana El Hawa (M.Hamza/B.Hamdi)
7. Aah Mon Amour (R.Taha/R.Taha - S.Hillage)
8. Mataouel Delil (A.Wahby)
9. Maydoum (D.El Harrachi)
10. Ghanny Li Shwaya (B.Et-Tunsi/A.Zakaria)

• Rachid Taha - Vocals
• Steve Hillage - Programming & acoustic guitar
• Hossam Ramzy - Percussion
• Hakim Hamadouche - Mandolute and backing vocals[1-5,9]
• Magid Sirour - Qanun [4,6,8,9,10]
• Hazem Shahin - Oud [2,6,8,10]
• Mohammed Fouda - Ney [2,6,9,10]
• Idris Badarou - Bass guitar [1-3,5,8]
• Rachid Belgacem - Percussion [1,2,3]
• Kadi Bouguenaya - Gasbar Oranais [5,7]
• Miquette Giraudy - Backing vocals [1]
• Morgan Marchand - Additional programming [1]
• Tariq Saeed M.E. - Oriental keyboard [6]
• Guillaume Rossel - Drums [1]
• Stephane Baudet - Trumpet [1]
• Kemang Kanoute - Kora [3]
• Bruno Maman - Electric guitar [10]
• The Cairo String Ensemble - Strings [1,2,4,6,8,9,10]
• Osama El Khouly, Adel Eskander, Doaa Fawzy, Nashwa Essam - Backing vocals [6,10]