Definitely without any doubt GREAT SUDANESE ARTIST (RIP WARDI)

A soundtrack of Sudan's revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture.

Electric soul, blues, jazz, rock, surf, even hints of country, speak fluently to styles and chords that could be Tuareg, Ethiopian, Peruvian or Thai—all grounded by hypnotic Sudanese grooves, Naji's impeccable, airy tenor sax, and of course, Noori's tambo-guitar, a self-made unique hybrid of an electric guitar and an electric tambour, a four-string instrument found across East Africa.

A truly ancient community, Beja trace their ancestry back millennia. Some say they are among the living descendants of Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush. Beja melodies—nostalgic, hopeful and sweet, ambiguous and honest—are thousands of years old.

The Beja community has been on the forefront of political change in Sudan for decades because successive Sudanese governments have turned a blind eye to their calls for recognition and access to the gold wealth of their own soil. Noori believes an unleashing of Beja music would form the most potent act of resistance in their quest for equity and justice.

BEJA POWER! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast

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Saagama

Noori & His Dorpa Band perform live at Le Guess Who? 2022, presented in collaboration with Ostinato Records.

About:
Noori's musical journey began far before Ostinato Records scouted his mysterious band in late 2021. In the nineties, the then eighteen-year-old came across a guitar neck in Port Sudan. Forging it with the vintage tambour his father had gifted him, he created the electrified tambo-guitar. Ever since, Noori has used his creation to uplift the ever-resilient Beja community, whose long history is rife with oppression from the Sudanese government. Their album 'Beja Power!' is the Beja people's first international musical encounter, and, with Ostinato Records, Noori & His Dorpa Band have created a moving, necessary archive of the radiance in resistance. 

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal on Thursday, 10 November 2022.

Recording and mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Noori & His Dorpa Band - Saagama

Imarhan Timbuktu in one of their most inventive fusions of tradition and electric guitars.  Mohamed Issa Ag Oumar, Ousmane Ag Oumar, Fatimata Walet Oumar, Zeinabou Walet Oumar.  Yes they are all brothers and sisters!
available at http://www.forcedexposure.com/Artist/IMARHAN.TIMBUKTU.html 
http://www.orkhestra.fr/catalog.php?FAMR=&TYPR=&LABL_ID=&FIND=Imarhan+Timbuktu
http://xangomusic.nl/
and online
Here are the lyrics:
The women before, we could recognize them because 
They drank cow milk 
Or they ate butter made from cow milk
And their clothes were Indigo
And they slept on large beds
Where have these women from the old days gone
Nowadays, women are like ends of square wood 
Straight, dry and without souls, rolled up in miserable rags
Ah nostalgia, my heart trembles, it cries
Louder than a young goat bloated with acacia leaves


Imarhan Timbuktu perform Ehela Damohele

Mdou Moctar - J'ai pas le choix

Génération Taragalte  1

Nabil Othmani - Djanet

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Kamal Keila - Taban Ahwak (Release coming soon)

"I call Mohammed Wardi "The Last King of Nubia." He is as ancient as civilization, the pharaohs, and the palm trees.

In West Africa, he sang in the stadium of Yaoundé to 60,000 people. They only spoke French, they didn't even speak Arabic, they didn't even know what was he singing. They came to his concert because they loved Wardi.

One time a guy from Mali came to me on foot because he didn't have enough money. He told me that he wanted to see Mohammed Wardi. I said, "Ok, Mohammed Wardi is not here, he's in Egypt, why do you want to meet him?"

He said, "I want to take a picture with him, and I want him to give me a cassette because I want to marry a girl, and the girl's father didn't want me, and he gave me very, very hard conditions: that if I go and meet Mohammed Wardi and bring his signature and his voice and a picture, then I will give you my daughter."

I gave him my father's number in Cairo. He took the train 'til Halfa, then the boat 'til Egypt and he found my father and took a picture with him. My father then gave him a plane ticket, and he went back home and got married. This is a person who doesn't even know Arabic. He came from Mali, traveling for three months on foot. My father was loved in West Africa, East Africa, and the middle of Africa.

In 1997, in exile, he released a cassette called Al Mursal (The Messenger). It was a song that he sang first in 1974. Sudan went crazy. This was the highest selling Sudanese album ever, until now, because he was the singer of the Sudanese people—the left and the right, the educated and the illiterate, the laborer, the farmer, everybody."

-- Abdulwahab Wardi, son of Mohammed Wardi

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Mohammed Wardi - Al Mursal (The Messenger)

Tuareg music
Tuareg people people live the Sahara Desert in North Africa and the desert speaks Tamazight language
This suffered a lot of people marginalized by colonialism and digest rights by governments under which they live
He scattered among several countries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya Mali, Niger, Mauritania

Imarhan N'Tinezraf. Titre  Adounia Idagh - Tuareg music

so they gave me more mics than the sudanease president..

sudanease renaissance

Bombino-salam felawen(acoustique)

Nominated for a Grammy and the German Record Critics Prize. Get BEJA POWER! Now —> https://ostlp.lnk.to/beja

Mohammed Wardi - Al Mursal (The Messenger)

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