Mohammed Rouane

Mohamed Rouane (born 1968 at Belouizdad, Algiers) is an Algerian musician and recording artist, well known in his own country for his performances of flamenco and "Casbah-style jazz" and especially for his use of the mondol.

Beyond the business of being a musician, he is a creative force in Algeria, and his mondol playing credited with raising Algerian music to "higher spheres" in world music. In a feature article, Aljazeera called him an artist with the ability and mastery to be brilliant, able to render the mondol into a respectable instrument. He calls his style of music Casbah Jazz, and fuses jazz with Algerian musical forms to create something new.

His music has been described as a fusion of chaabi with jazz, performed on an Algerian mandole. He worked at a hotel in Tunisia as an instrumentalist for three years.

Common to all his later music is his use of the mandole as a lead instrument. Much of the music he does are instrumentals. Rouane has said repeatedly that his use of the mandole for his music is a tribute to the Chaabi musician El Anka, the musician who helped develop the instrument as it is used today in Algeria. Although Rouane blends different musical forms with jazz, he draws the "soul" of his works from Chaabi for inspiration.

When his first album came out, He was disappointed to hear it called a work of tourism. During the music festival at Djemila (13th Arab Festival of Djemila) in the summer of 2017, he was reunited on stage with Selma Kouiret, a singer from his trio Méditerranéo. The two also performed together in Algiers in July 2017, her singing and him accompanying with his instrument.

Solo Rêve (Dream), Dounia, 2005 Rayon de soleil (Ray of sunshine), Dounia, 2006 Heureux fans de tristesse (Happy in sadness), Dounia, 2007 Nulle part (Nowhere), Dounia, 2008