Mali Music - The Transition Of Mali - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With recordings by anthropologists Betty and W. Gurnee Dyer, Music of Mali presents music from Timbuktu and Sanga, a region inhabited by Mali's Dogon people. The anthropologists were fortunate enough to witness a Dogon funeral, an elaborate ceremony normally restricted to locals, as well as a wedding procession and the music of two Tuareg minstrels in Timbuktu. The liner notes are taken from W. Gurnee Dyer's field notes and provide description of Mali's geography as well as a first-hand account of the Dogon funeral ceremony.

Omara Bombino Moctara, a young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter from Agadez, Niger, was raised during an era of armed struggles for independence and violent suppression by government forces, and the spirit of resistance and rebellion comes through in his mesmerizing music. In Bombino's electrifying jams you can hear echoes of fellow Africans Tinariwen and Ali Farka Touri as well as rock and blues icons Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Page.

2014 from the Saharan Blues band. For Tinariwen, the desert is home; their hypnotic and electrifying guitar Rock reflects the melding of their Tuareg musical heritage with modern urban Blues. Their 2011 album Tassili, recorded in the Algerian desert, won a Grammy Award for Best World Music album. Now, Emmaar returns to their roots, delivering stripped-down dirges and effervescent electric anthems.