It’s an All-Europe team, with players from everywhere — Algeria, Corsica, France, Tunisia, Italy — moving emphatically in unison. Another great French hybrid, even the name Boukakes is a phonetic blend of two common racist insults. But if you’ve got a fever for rock and raï, singer Bachir Mokhtar and his crew will set the night ablaze with a rock-accented North African groove. No fewer than 15 countries fell to their incendiary rhythmic charms on the 2005-06 tour, and we’re next. The globalization of pleasure… and vice-versa!
