Jakarta Records/Habibi Funk, the German label that recently introduced us to the work of Moroccan funkateer Fadoul, this time presents 'Musique Originale De Films', an album by Algerian composer Ahmed Malek. Malek was born in Bordj El Kiffan in 1932 and, after a brief stint as a factory worker, enrolled at the Conservatoire d'Alger. Not a bad descission as it turned out, because in addition to earning a whole range of prizes and awards, he would move on to become the conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique De La Radio-Television Algérienne and composed dozens of soundtracks for movies and documentaries. As with Fadoul's 'Al Zman Saib', the reissue (a selection from the original 1978 vinyl double album) of 'Musique Originale De Films' was once again preceded by some serious musical detective work, eventually leading Jannis Stürtz to Ahmed's daughter Henya and a veritable treasure trove of archival material. 'Musique Originale De Films' sounds less Arabic or Oriental than one would perhaps expect, and is reminiscent of the deliciously melancholic soundtracks to movies of the nineteen sixties and seventies.