بمناسبة تطبيع المغرب مع الكيان الصهيوني مقابل موافقة أمريكا على احتلالها للصحراء المغربية ، كس أمهم الثلاثة وكلنا ثوريين ✌🏼 

I don't know the words, but it's groovy and wonderful music. I would like to visit there on a trip.

تيحة لإخواننا فالصحراء المغربية ✌️

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)

Aratane N'Adagh - Tamikrest

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Mariem Hassan - Haiyu

Get the album now: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/

Voiced with deep passion and grace, Aziza Brahim's music adeptly travels the expanse between her Western Saharan roots and Barcelona, the European cosmopolis where she now lives. Aziza is both a contemporary sonic poet and a prominent and eloquent spokesperson for the Saharawi people and their ongoing struggle for recognition and justice.

Born and raised in the Saharawi refugee camps lining the frontier between Algeria and Western Sahara, Aziza’s life has been marked by both daunting hardship and inspired will. Fleeing from these camps and the regime of political oppression that followed Morocco’s 1975 invasion of Western Sahara, as a young teenager Aziza travelled to Cuba for her secondary school studies. There she experienced first hand the deep Cuban economic crisis of the 1990’s and the subsequent denial of her request to pursue a university degree in music.

Music had been Aziza’s passion since she was a small girl and despite this setback she returned to the Saharawi camps in Algeria and began singing and playing in different musical ensembles, a process that continued when she moved to Spain in the year 2000. There she founded the eclectic Saharawi/Spanish band Gulili Mankoo with whom she released two acclaimed self-produced recordings: the EP “Mi Canto” (2008) and an album “Mabruk” (2012) both on Reaktion, a French label specializing in Saharan music. In the last years Aziza has performed extensively appearing at major festivals and venues including WOMAD Cáceres (2012) and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London (2009).

Aziza’s new album Soutak (“Your Voice”), her debut for the Glitterbeat label, is her first recording to predominantly focus on the cadence of her majestic voice and the soulful critique of her lyrics. The album was produced by Chris Eckman (Tamikrest, Ben Zabo, Dirtmusic) and was recorded live and direct in Barcelona in June of 2013.

In the liner notes to the album Aziza describes her vision for Soutak: 

“Feeling the need to make an acoustic record, I imagined a somewhat modest musical outline, which would not involve too many instruments and in which the voices would take the expressive emotional lead. I wanted to further explore the range of possibilities found in the Haul, the Saharawi’s traditional rhythmic sources, played on the tabal and a source of inspiration for the Desert Blues.”

The hand picked band she assembled for the album consists of Spaniards Nico Roca (percussion) & Guillem Aguilar (bass), Malian Kalilou Sangare (acoustic lead guitar), Aziza’s sister Badra Abdallahe (backing voice) and in addition to singing, Aziza contributes acoustic rhythm guitar and the tabal, the traditional Saharawi hand-drum.

The music on Soutak is a powerful and nuanced mixture of musical cultures and features Malian, Spanish, Cuban and contemporary Anglo-European motifs all held together by Aziza’s deeply rooted knowledge of traditional Saharawi song and sound.  

Throughout Soutak, the band frames Aziza’s voice with dignified restraint and leaves unvarnished space for her lyrics, lyrics which range from the sharply political “Gdeim Izik” (named after the “Camp of Dignity” crushed by the Moroccan-backed authorities) to the whispered enigmas of “La Palabra/The Word” (“Cradled by the wind it left/ it went around the world and returned/ and there beyond the word was heard”)

The song “Julud,” dedicated to Aziza’s mother, is possibly the most emblematic song on the album combining intimate and stark desert poetry with an unyielding faith in the Saharawi political struggle:

You are like the night and the stars/ Your voice goes beyond the top of the clouds/ 
You are the smiling breeze of today/ You are an example of humanity and of fight.
Resist, immortal, resist.

Though the songs on Soutak can be unsparing in their details of oppression, there is more often than not a “smiling breeze” to be found. Aziza’s essential voice, headstrong commitment and subtly inventive music are that breeze. 

With Soutak Aziza Brahim has delivered an empowered flight to freedom; an alternative world where hope is imminent and dancing is justified.


Aziza Brahim:
Homepage: http://aziza-brahim.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aziza.brahim.official
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AzizaBrahim1

Glitterbeat Records:
Homepage: http://www.glitterbeat.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Glitterbeat
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/glitterbeattv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Glitterbeat_Rec

Aziza Brahim - Julud

Tinariwen.1980 - Hayati... Gharami...- (my life.. my love..)(arabic song)

La chanteuse indienne Kiran Ahluwalia est tombée sous le charme des rythmes et des guitares tamashek puisqu'elle a enregistré 1 titre avec Tinariwen et 2 autres avec Terakaft.

Tinariwen & Kiran Ahluwalia ʚïɞ Mustt Mustt

Seven Before 07

So Much For Summer

"Sastanàqqàm" from the album "Elwan" to be released Feb 10, 2017
Pre-order ELWAN here: http://found.ee/tinariwen_store

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Lyrics

Ténéré sastanàqqàm
Indek tifut n- imidiwàn
Tiled tasnit, tiled achàkwa
Aynayàn wàràn issindjày
Tissanàd tabaràt 
S- àkkoz itran dàgh ichinnawàn
Chorus
Ténéré sastanàqqàm
Indek tifut n-imidiwàn
Tissanàd umàgh i-aman 
Dàgh-idàggàn wàràn anfalàl
Tissanàd asissinkàr 
Dat adu indid inkàr
Chorus
Ténéré sastanàqqàm 
Indek immik was mad nàrti
Nàkk d- kàmm wàr nànmàksàn
Nàkk idjodadàgh nilmàd tekle
Isikilàn djer ikallàn
Ténéré Ténéré 
Ténéré naghehàd-kàmm
Chorus
 
Ténéré, can you tell me 
of anything better
Than to have your friends 
and your mount,
And a brand new goatskin, 
watertight,
To find your way 
by the light
Of the four bright stars 
of heaven,
To know how 
to find water in 
The unlikeliest of places,
And enlist the momentum 
of the wind
To help you move forward. 
 
Tell me, Ténéré, 
how you and I
Can remain united, 
with no hate for each other. 
Ténéré, I can now admit that
I have travelled far through this wide world. 
Ténéré, I give you my oath
That as long as I’m alive,
I will always come back to you.

Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm

Aima Ymaima - Terakaft

Anana Kel Assouf, his guitar and mini portable guitar amp, playing tuareg rock with an amazing improvised band during a soirée guitare outside Niamey-Niger organized by Rissa Ag Wanaghli 6/04/2013 : Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni (Tinariwen), Afel Bocoum and his band, Atri N'Assouf, Nabil Baly Othmani and his band... and all 20 friends participating to "Le Chant des Dunes" event. Recorded by Arnaud Contreras.

Anana Kel Assouf, Tinariwen, Afel Bocoum and friends Soiree guitare Niger 3

The Sahara Sessions was recorded deep in the desert. Sheltered only by an animal-skin tent and the vast canopy of midnight stars, Etran Finatawa played their guitars and sang straight from the heart. Each poignant song and every slap of the calabash drum articulating the deep-set divisions in the Sahel region that are threatening their Nomad way of life.

Read More/Buy Album: www.worldmusic.net/saharasessions

Simmering political troubles and excruciating economic hardship pose a dangerous threat to the nomadic way of life and the rich cultures of Niger. Divining their solution to these issues, Etran Finatawa celebrate their diverse heritage and call for its preservation to be a priority for Nigeriens and listeners the world over.

The Sahara Sessions opens with ‘Matinfa’, a gently rippling introduction peppered with traditional percussion; tendé, calabash and azakalabó (a calabash drum that floats in water) drums are all heard. The song title translates as ‘What Is This For?’ and is the first signifier of the album’s intent to comment on the tumultuous status of the Sahel region today. Although Niger has displayed a firm opposition to separatism that plagued neighbouring country Mali in 2012, the troubles have inevitably caused insecurity in the Sahel region and the threat to the countries rich and varied cultures is a very real concern. Etran Finatawa’s members are of Tuareg and Wodaabe heritages – neighboring tribes that both live as nomads. Water shortages and land disputes have led to deep-set economic issues that cause conflict and misunderstanding across communities. The work Etran Finatawa do to promote unity and understanding is invaluable. 

The album presents a collection of tracks: some fixed compositions developed and created by the band and others spontaneous improvisations that capture the spirit of the tent recordings.  Songs such as ‘An Mataf Germanawen’ (Union) and ‘Issuad’ (Let’s Come Together) patiently call for attention to be paid to the political situation.

Various guests also join then band on the album – arrangements that occurred organically and were spontaneously initiated. One of these, a Tuareg percussionist by the name of Ayouba arrived at the camp one night, revving out of the darkness on his motorbike. Before long Ayouba had set up his calabash drum and was spreading his contagious high-energy vibe like wildfire. His articulations can be heard on the three tracks ‘Matinfa’,  ‘Icheraid Azaman’ and ‘Toumast’. ‘Wa Oyan A Wa Imouss I Bastila’ is an excerpt from an improvisation with Abdourahaman Ag Ibrahim, a well-known local griot (praise-singer and oral historian), who came to visit the tent where Etran Finatawa were recording.

Etran Finatawa are as captivating as the horizon-stretching desert where the pitched their tent to record. Like the desert their music stretches out across the sands of time and culture.


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