a little blues from dessert  with electro sound

Tamasheq

Tinariwen Generation 1

Track 3 from their album Akal Warled, Imarhan Timbuktu perform Amassakoul In Ténéré / Le voyageur du désert / Desert Voyager’s Farewell
full album available at
http://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/CLERMONT.MUSIC.html
http://www.orkhestra.fr/catalog.php?FAMR=&TYPR=&LABL_ID=&FIND=Imarhan+Timbuktu
http://xangomusic.nl/
and online at digital stores

This is a song of farewell. A voyager about to leave says a last goodbye to his family and friends. The singer speaks about a perpetual search for freedom and the beauty of the desert as he is about to travel out across its increasingly hostile landscape.
At dance clubs and private parties in Northern Mali, IMARHAN TIMBUKTU had provided much of the grooving soundtrack to life there over the past 10 years. Grounded in traditional Saharan repertoire, IMARHAN TIMBUKTU developed their unique sound to clearly represent an authentic Tuareg contemporary expression in a music influenced by the sounds of the world.  This is a connected generation.  You’ll find them on facebook, twitter and youtube.  You will find them engaged with local issues as those issues have become world issues.

Imarhan Timbuktu - Amassakoul In Tenere

tarhanam fal hinouyigh al3alam

Tartit - Ansari

Talyat Intoumaste - La femme nomade par Aneslem El Hassen dit Mahmoud du Groupe Imzad
Auteur compositeur: Mahmoud
Arrangements: Moussa melloul
Copyright Association Sauver l'Imzad

Talyat Intoumaste (La femme nomade) par Mahmoud Groupe Imzad

Tinariwen-Tissmiten/La jalousie

Imarhan "Assossamagh" from the upcoming self-titled album 'Imarhan' out on April 29th 2016 via City Slang on LP and CD.

Preorder it on Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ImarhanAmazon
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Imarhan - Assossamagh

Sadam Imarhan - Telaqqim Sinnagh

Omar Moctar aka Bombino - Yamidinine

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Tamikrest means “crossing” in the language of the Kel Tamashek, a traditionally nomadic Saharan people that are commonly referred to as the Tuaregs. It is an apt name for a band that so successfully merges the values of their timeless culture with the sounds and visions they have encountered on a headlong journey to the concert stages and ipods of the world. 

Since the band emerged onto the international scene four years ago with their debut album “Adagh”, they have been in constant motion, moving between the Sahara and Europe as though these places were next-door neighbors. All the while, during this same time period, their homeland has suffered increasingly profound and catastrophic events. Originally hailing from Kidal, in the northeast of Mali, as the result of ongoing war, persecution and political collapse most of the band now lives in exile in Algeria. 

These last years have been intensely vivid for Tamikrest, defined as they have been by both tragic sadness (families and friends turned refugees, the brutal imposition of Sharia law in their hometown) and collective growth (their musical dreams building one upon another). 

Their new album “Chatma”, their third, deftly navigates these experiences and fashions them into a fully persuasive and poetic musical document. The album is filled with sober reflection, moral indignation, musical experimentation, cultural celebration and the kick of rock and roll.

“Chatma” is also Tamikrest’s first album to be wholly written around a defined theme. In Tamashek “Chatma” means “Sisters” and the band has dedicated the album in their own words to: “the courage of the Tuareg women, who have ensured both their children's survival and the morals of their fathers and brothers.” 

The opening track “Tisnant an Chatma (The suffering of my sisters)” is a heartbreaking homage: « Who can estimate the suffering felt by the soul / of one who sees her sisters exhausted from waiting/ of one who sees her sisters exhausted from waiting between countries, in deep distress /and daily oppression? « 

Fittingly for an album so lyrically evocative, “Chatma “ also delivers Tamikrest's most wide-screen and wide-ranging sonic statement to date. The infectious, sing-along rock stylings of "Imanin bas zihoun", the acoustic seduction of “Adounia tabarat”, the Pink Floyd influenced montage "Assikal" and the lush, melancholy ambiance of the albums finale, “Timtar”, all add up to a sustained audio adventure. Echoes of dub, blues, psychedelia, funk and even art-rock are seamlessly weaved by Tamikrest into their increasingly individual take on the Tuareg musical tradition. 

And on an album where the title translates as "Sisters", it makes perfect sense that this time around we hear the full emergence of the haunting voice of female vocalist Wonou Walet Sidati in tandem with lead vocalist Ousmane Ag Mossa. A new guitarist, Paul Salvagnac has also joined the band, bringing with him fresh textures and possibilities.

Contemporary Tuareg music has produced several unforgettable albums in recent years and "Chatma" certainly deserves to be ranked with these. But one also gets the sense, when listening to “Chatma” that there is something uniquely innovative and exploratory about Tamikrest's musical quest and that at last they have stepped into a wide-open space of their own.
 
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