this song makes me feel overwhelmed am so thankful

who can translate meaning of this beautiful song

Tamikrest is a group of musicians who belong to the Tuareg people. The band was founded in 2006. They mix traditional African music with Western rock, blues and pop influences and sing in Tamashek (Tuareg People Language)

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Some time ago I worked for a Berlin based NGO called MICT while running Jakarta Records. During this time I helped organize a recording session in Tunisia with 9 female singers and musicians from Tunisia, Libya & Egypt together with Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of The Knife. "Nouh Al Hamam" by egyptian singer Maryam Saleh is the first leak of the project. You can pre-order the vinyl here. Below you can find the infos for this project....

http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/sawtuha

A little less then three years ago the political situation in many countries of the Arab world changed dramatically. Uprisings started in rural areas of Tunisia and from there spread to various countries in the region. Millions gathered in the streets united by their demand for more democracy, rights and participation in the political process. In most cases the reaction of the governing dictators were relentless and severe towards every form of protests. Violence in the streets of Cairo, Tunis and Bengasi escalated and resulted in the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia.
A year later a group of female singers and musicians from Tunisia (Nawel Ben Kraiem, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Medusa, Houwaida), Libya (Nada) and Egypt (Donia Massoud, Maryam Saleh, Youssra El Hawary) met in Mohsen Matri Studio in Tunis to sing- against corruption, despotism, patronization and narrow-mindedness. The song with Syrian artist Rasha Rizk was recorded some months later in her political asylum in Cairo. Sudanese/American producer Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of the Swedish pop duo The Knife joined the session, participating in the creation of the musical backdrop as well as the often multi-instrumentalist female singers. For the vinyl edition producers such as Brenk, Blackjoy and Blundetto contributed remix versions of the project.

At the time and still today especially musicians and especially women were and are trapped in a spiral of repression, discrimination and violence. "Sawtuha" (Arabic for "her voice"), the album that is the product of the 2-week session, is a vital encouraging testament of rebellion against the repression of democratic rights, gender inequality, and lack of inclusion. The music is an organic mixture of traditional Arabic music, regional influences and various forms of contemporary Western musical genres. A mixture that may sound contradicting at first but makes total sense once you listen to the music.

The studio session was organized by the Berlin based NGO MICT (Media In Cooperation And Transition) and was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

www.facebook.com/MaryamSaleh.Official
www.jakartarecords.de
www.mict-international.org

Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam (Produced by Oddisee)

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Tonight I'll be Pretty Ft. Mariem Hassan 

Composition by Ravid Kahalani
Lyrics by Mariem Hassan, Zaim Alal & Ravid Kahalani Arranged by Rony Iwryn, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Itamar Borochov, Itamar Doari, Roy Harmon
￼￼￼i will be there with you Laila
i will be there with you all the time
wherever you go you will shine like the sun with your light on me and on humanity
باكون موجود معاكي يا ليلى باكون موجود معاكي في كل وقت
واين مارحتي بتضلي تشرقي كالشمس بضوش عليا وعلى كل البشر

08. Tonight I'll be Pretty ft. Mariem Hassan

malouma - Yarab

Traditional singing of Southern Tunisia.
"Rit Ennejma" means "I saw the star".

Boarding for the stars, and a fire in the wilderness.

Rit Enejma

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Jamal Nouman : Composition, chant
Hicham Benabderrazik : Arrangements, guitares
Mehdi El Kindi : Direction artistique, percussions
Hamza Bennani Smires : Trompette
Amadou Ba : Basse
Le morceau a été enregistré et mixé au studio BTM à Casablanca. Il à été masterisé à Paris par 
Jean Charles Boutin.

malouma - Yarab

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