Ahmed Malek

Ahmed Malek was an Algerian composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist from Bordj El Kiffan, near Algiers, who died in 2008. He wrote mostly for cinema and television, mixing Algerian music with jazz and funk, and he also made early electronic music. He is best known for his scores for Algerian films of the 1970s, which the label Habibi Funk began reissuing in 2016. Malek studied at the Algiers conservatory and conducted the orchestra of Algerian television.