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Karim Ziad

Karim Ziad is credited on 48 releases across 27 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1993–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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48

Pressings credited

27

Albums

4

Decades active

1

In collections

Biography

Karim Ziad (born 1966) is an Algerian musician. A percussionist, drummer, singer and composer, he has been influenced both by other North African musicians and by jazz. Ziad was involved in a hard rock band in his youth in Algiers, before moving to Paris to study biology, where he became a jazz drummer for Cheb Mami, Khaled and Idir, among others.

Bio from Wikipedia

Credited work

48 releases · 27 albums · active 1993–2022

  • Performance · 90
  • Other credits · 23
  • Production · 3

Studios: Studio Davout · Studio Gil Evans · Translab · Studio Louxor

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Idir
  • Bojan Zulfikarpašić
  • Cheikh Sidi Bemol
  • Orchestre National De Barbès
  • Sixun
  • Nguyên Lê
  • Touré-Touré

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