Bombino - Sahel - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After a brief 25 hour delay in Morocco on his way from Niger, Bombino arrived in Woodstock, New York to record his 2016 album at Applehead Studio with Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors). Longstreth proved to be a fantastic match for Bombino as this album's producer. He has a deep respect for the Saharan music tradition and guided their sessions with a gentle but skilled hand. Fans of Bombino and Tuareg music in general will notice a few remarkable innovations on this album. The first is the introduction of a new style that Bombino is pioneering that he affectionally refers to as 'Tuareggae' - a sunny blend of Tuareg blues/rock with reggae one-drop and bounce. Another is the first-ever use of Western vocal harmonies in recorded Tuareg music, (due to Longstreth's influence) which give the songs new depth and color. Finally, the band is tighter and more energetic than ever before. The result is Bombino's best, most well-rounded, and groundbreaking album to date. Album Tracks 1. Akhar Zaman (This Moment) 2. Iwaranagh (We Must) 3. Inar (If You Know the Degree of My Love for You) 4. Tamiditine Tarhanam (My Love, I Tell You) 5. Timtar (Memories) 6. Iyat Ninhay/Jaguar (A Great Desert I Saw) 7. Igmayagh Dum (My Lover) 8. Ashuhada (Martyrs of the First Rebellion) 9. Timidiwa (Friendship) 10. Naqqim Dagh Timshar (We Are Left in This Abandoned Place)

Album Tracks 1. Guns Just Want to Have Fun 2. No Songs No More 3. Kick the Hive 4. Jo-Jo Song 5. Maybe We Re Dead 6. I Fire-Fly 7. A Ghost of Future S Past 8. Hey Kool-Aid 9. Lovely Girl 10. Death to the Alarm 11. News You Don't Hear 12. Playing Pretend 13. The Sky Rains Tango

Tinariwen's breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. The CD comes in a 6 panel digipak, with exclusive photos, and extensive new liner notes. Amassakoul features songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, Touhami Ag Alhassane Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg's ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries - Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar, a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen's music ' a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock'n'roll ' speaks directly to this feeling of longing a sound that critics have called 'desert blues'. Album Tracks 1. Amassakoul'n'ténéré 2. Oualahila Ar Tesninam 3. Chatma 4. Arawan 5. Chet Boghassa 6. Amidinin 7. TÉNÉRÉ Daféo Nikchan 8. Aldhechen Manin 9. Alkhar Dessouf 10. Eh Massina Sintadoben 11. Assoul 12. Taskiwt Tadjat