{"id":41060,"date":"2020-01-14T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/habibi-funk-to-release-infectious-libyan-reggae-project-by-ahmed-ben-ali\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:19","slug":"habibi-funk-ahmed-ben-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/habibi-funk-ahmed-ben-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Habibi Funk to release infectious Libyan reggae project by Ahmed Ben Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35168 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/74afe6df-ahmed-ben-ali.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Ben Ali\" width=\"725\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/74afe6df-ahmed-ben-ali.jpg 667w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/74afe6df-ahmed-ben-ali-661x453.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/74afe6df-ahmed-ben-ali-465x319.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/74afe6df-ahmed-ben-ali-375x257.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Founder of Habibi Funk Jannis St\u00fcrtz, discovered the existence of Libyan reggae by devoting a release from Ahmed Ben Ali works.<\/h4>\n<p>Ahmed Ben Ali was born in 1971 in Benghazi.\u00a0He went to boarding to school in Canada for 8 years, and returned to Libya. For a couple of years he also worked in the UK.\u00a0While going to school and also living in the UK he was always playing music and playing in bands.\u00a0This culminated in recording his first album, which he released in 2003. Since then he recorded maybe 40 tracks and released two more albums. He also started playing gigs in Libya with his own band.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qInEhiDTC1k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bcTruncateMore\">Contextualizing his own style Ben Ali pointed out that \u201cThe Libyan folkloric rhythm is very similar to the reggae rhythm. So if Libyan people listen to reggae it\u2019s easy for them to relate because it sounds familiar. This is the main reason why reggae became so popular here. [\u2026]We played the reggae Libyan style, it\u2019s not the same as in Jamaica. We added our oriental notes to it and if you mix both it becomes something great.\u201d With a bit of laughter he added: \u201cAnd to me it\u2019s still original reggae, it\u2019s Libyan style, not some bullshit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Habibi Funk 012: Subhana<\/em>\u00a0out February 21st<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0via <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/habibi-funk\/\">Habibi Funk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Discover the album artwork here and pre-order it <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/habibi-funk-012-subhana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35167\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana.jpg\" alt=\"Habibi Funk 012 Subhana\" width=\"679\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1d4fbe4c-habibi-funk-012-subhana-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Habibi Funk Jannis St\u00fcrtz, discovered the existence of Libyan reggae by devoting a release from Ahmed Ben Ali works. Ahmed Ben Ali was born in 1971 in Benghazi.\u00a0He went to boarding to school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5384,5995],"location":[8114],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41060"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41060"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}