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Buy: https://tamikrest.bandcamp.com/album/chatma

'Chatma' is the new album by Tuareg rockers Tamikrest. The album is a fully persuasive sonic document and is filled with sober reflection, moral indignation, musical experimentation, cultural celebration - and the kick of rock and roll. 'Chatma' translates as "Sisters" and the band have 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."

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Chatma

Tisnant An Chatma

Tamikrest - Tisnant an Chatma

Orphans of the Sahara - Bombino - "Adinat"

IMUHAR

(Omar Moctar)
Matinfa tenassé in mouhague tigrawe tickma
Matinfa tinassé in mouhague tigrawe tickma
Ayitma yofa nikare nigrassidane yalla yicknane
Matinfa tenéssé n’mouhar tigrawe tickma
Imuhar tigrawe tickma n’taguilwene ahische rawane
Matinfa ténéssé n’mouhar tigrawe tickma
What good is calm to the Imuhar(1)
who are living in misery? 
In misfortune? 
My brothers, we must awake and understand that we have
gained nothing
What good is calm to the Imuhar living in misery?
In misfortune? 
The lives of the Imuhar are complicated, it is the way these
times are
What use is calm to the Imuhar living in misery? 
In misfortune?

Imuhar - Bambino

Bombino - Agamgam
Get the album: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/
Release date: April 19th, 2014 (Record Store Day)
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Glitterbeat Records is proud to announce our first ever Record Store Day release. On April 19th we will drop a very special vinyl version of Agamgam 2004, the debut album from Niger’s Tuareg sensation Bombino. The album has previously only been available as a digital download.

By any measurement the last couple of years have been an exhilarating ride for Bombino, culminating in 2013’s album Nomad, which was produced by Dan Auerbach of the arena filling Black Keys and was released to widespread acclaim. Agamgam 2004 is a beautiful contrast to the Nashville recorded Nomad. This is Tuareg music in its most pure and unadulterated form.

In late 2004, Bombino recorded acoustic versions of nine songs in the Ténéré desert, which became this, his first real album. He sings and plays several of his own compositions and also pays tribute to other Tuareg artists (Abdallah Oumbadougou, Hasso, Kedou). Recorded mostly around the campfire, his assembled friends join in on handclaps and undulations.

Bombino himself picks up the story:

I worked as a guide or cook’s helper and once the season ended, I bought a guitar and strings. I did that for some years, working wherever I could. In 2004, a Spanish team came to make a documentary film and organized a gathering in the Ténéré desert to the north of Agadez (Niger). I was there as a cook’s assistant and in the evening would play guitar in the camp. They decided to record what we were playing in the desert, in the place that’s called Agamgam. Since that’s where the recording came from, I wanted it to have the name of the place where it was made. It was completed in two days.

The rush of the desert wind, snippets of between song conversation and the sound of grazing animals in the distance are essential elements of the album’s deep atmosphere. Agamgam 2004 is not only an intimate, privileged view of Bombino's roots; it is also one of the most authentic documents of modern Tuareg music ever released.

The Agamgam 2004 LP is beautifully re-mastered from the original recordings, housed in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. A download code is also included. The album is being released in conjunction with the French label Reaktion and has been directly licensed from Bombino.

Tracklisting:

Side one:
01 Tenere Tenere
02 Imuhar
03 Amidinin
04 Intidgagen
05 Azaman

Side two:
01 Illilagh ténéré
02 Adounia adounia
03 Tazidert halal
04 Akh al zaman

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Bombino - Ténéré

Tinariwen-Wallahi la ar tasninam

LE TITRE ''AMIDININE'' DE FEU INTAYADEN REPRIS PAR ABDALLAH AG AHMED DE TERAKAFT!!!!

AMIDININE BY ABDALLAH AG AHMED!!!!!!!!!!!!

This year I was a lot into Malian, Tuareg, Saharan music. I hope you enjoy these selections as much as I have enjoyed them.

01 Gambian - Tunde Jegede & Sona Jobarteh -Iniche

Bombino Live - USA tour 2014- All credits go to youtube user 
GondolaSessions.  Inar tissanad oulhi ghour adh illa -- "If you knew your heart is with me"

Bombino-Live-Inar Tissanad - USA tour 2014

Khamid Ekawel- Khoumaissa (Takamba rythme)

Desert Rebel  - Musique Touarg

A lively set of tunes composed after an embarrassing moment involving our Bodhran player and a water park in the USA. 

The Burst Togs

A love song composed by our friend Finbar Magee. Featuring guest vocals from David Curley. 

My Belfast Love

Aima Ymaima - Terakaft

A collection of Lúnasa's best known tunes.

Morning Nightcap (McLeod's Farewell, Morning Nightcap, The Malbay Shuffle)

The Dingle Berries (The Hop Slide, Padraig O'Keefe's, Nessa The Mover, Trip To Dingle)

Amedrane

The title track from the album "Transformed" composed by our wonderful Áine Mc Geeney. 
Tune names:
Henry's Welcome - Áine Mc Geeney
Transformed - Áine Mc Geeney/Colm Phelan

Transformed

SOOF - By Gil Ron Shama :

Africa is a mystical land with an innate rhythm and diverse population. The sounds and songs that echo in the heart of the people tell stories of both happiness and despair. Like all continents ravaged by war, Africa too, needs the song of Unity. This strong symbolic word is at the heart of the Soof Project; a project that brings people together using the diverse nature of music from across the continent. 

The SOOF project is a multidimensional creation, with both an artistic and an educational approach, offering musical masterpieces, a photography art exhibition, video-art , educational children's books and more. 

Wandering through Mali, Senegal, Morocco and the Sahara Desert, the Soof team visited remote areas and big cities (Bamako, Timbuktu, Dakar) recording the sounds and sites of the people and environment they encountered. Bringing the message of peace and unity to the people of the land. 

Touareg

Tamikrest-Adagh

Faris feat Terakaft-j'ai dû partir

Bombino-salam felawen(acoustique)

Bombino-Intidgagen

Bakrin(du groupe Tissilawen)-Tamiditin

Issa Imarhan

Abdallah ag Elhousseini"tinariwen"-el ghalem mas assossam

Bombino - Tazidert

Ezza-Tedene

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Ezza-Tedene

Houda Amel