Ahmed Fakroun is a pioneer. Born in Libya, he began shaping his own musical language in the 1970s: where French synth-pop, disco, Arabic poetry, North African rhythms and European art rock converge into a hypnotic sound.
But his career came to an abrupt halt after the US bombing of Libya in 1986. Silenced by the regime and banned from travelling, Fakroun retreated to his home studio, and kept creating. Music as both protest and hope.
In recent years, his catalogue has been rediscovered by DJs and through the reissue label Habibi Funk. Fakroun has been called “Libya’s synth-pop legend”, and rightly so.
