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July 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Faris: Mississippi To Sahara

Faris Mississippi To Sahara Reaktion Faris Amine, born to an Ethiopian father and Touareg mother, tries something different, something that elevates him beyond being just another Desert Bluesman. Here, he takes songs from the Delta and drags them through the mud and back through the sands of his time, making Son House’s Death Letter over […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ali Farka Toure, Blues, Desert Blues, Faris, Mississippi To Sahara, Muddy Waters, Ry Cooder, Son House, Talking Timbuktu, Tinariwen, World Music ·

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February 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Mdou Moctar: Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai

Mdou Moctar Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai [Original Soundtrack Recording] Sahel Sounds It’s easy enough – and fair enough – to have a lighthearted chuckled around some of the absurdities of this project – a remake of Prince’s Purple Rain movie in a language with no word for ‘Purple’; crowd-funded and starring the guitarist that penned […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [Original Soundtrack Recording], [OST], Africa, Album, Album Review, Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, Crowd Funding, Desert Blues, Film, Mdou Moctar, Music, Purple Rain, Soundtrack, Tinariwen, Tuareg ·

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August 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #133 – Tinariwen, Wellington, 2012

It was a great gig – a pretty special gig. I had liked a lot of the music by Tinariwen, was first turned onto them by reading MOJO (I think it was). And this was an Arts Festival show; a mini-scandal was the fact that a couple of the members were unable to get visas. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2012, Alhousseini ag Abdoulahi, Arts Festival, Blog On The Tracks, Gig, Interview, Live, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #133 – Tinariwen, Tinariwen, Town Hall, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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August 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Anansy Cisse: Mali Overdrive

Anansy Cisse Mali Overdrive Riverboat/World Music Network I love the distinct blues of Mali – that guitar sound, the type you do not get anywhere else in the world, its weave, its way of threading through the bass and percussion, a line for the voice to follow – here’s the international debut from rising star […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Africa, Album Review, Anansy Cisse, Mali, Mali Overdrive, Riverboat, Tinariwen, World Music Network ·

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February 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Tinariwen: Emmaar

Tinariwen Emmaar Wedge If you’ve heard Tinariwen before then Emmaar is, arguably, business as usual – a wonderful continuation of the sound that starts, so tightly coiled, in the electric guitar and proudly probing bass. It unfurls in jagged shapes, made to sit just so. The voice chanting around the guitar sound, the percussion propulsive, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Emmaar, Tinariwen ·

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December 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Tamikrest: Chatma

Tamikrest Chatma Glitterbeat The third album by Tamikrest shows a band continuing to improve, to evolve – and that’s all the more remarkable when you consider the group is in exile, having fled to Algeria to record this album in dedication to the women – and the role of women – in Tourareg society. That’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged African Music, Album Review, Algeria, Chatma, Mali, Tamikrest, Tinariwen ·

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