Cheb I Sabbah

Algerian Cheb i Sabbah started spinning world music records in Paris in 1965 and never
looked back. Today he resides in San Francisco and is the namesake behind hugely
successful Indian and Moroccan electronica records on Six Degrees Records. His DJ
sets have been known to send dancers into ecstatic fits of rapture. From a man whose
mind may hold the most expansive catalog of international sounds of anyone, this is hardly
surprising.

 

On January 29, 2008, Cheb i Sabbah releases his new album and returns to the Indian
subcontinent for Devotion, his seventh album on Six Degrees Records. Hundreds of artists
in the world music genre, or for that matter any genre, have come and gone like bottle rockets,
but Cheb i Sabbah’s light keeps burning and it is his bhakti (devotion) to the spiritual essence
of music, and to truth and humanity, that is responsible for his longevity.