Chalaban Band was founded in 1999 in Budapest by the Moroccan musician Saïd Tichiti. The diversity of the group’s sound is defined by the musician’s Afro-Arab roots, with their lively, exuberant Moroccan music enhanced by elements of Carpathian Basin, Roma and Balkan music, all while singing in Arabic.

Being a melting pot of different nationalities, Chalaban aims to act as a vessel of the ancestral musical education Saïd had been acquiring since his childhood. This music goes beyond folk vision to create a merger between instruments and melodies of south and north, east and west. The result is that each Chalaban concert is full of desert spirituality, melancholic melodies, ending with an air of Trance.