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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 […]Archive
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. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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, […]Archive
December 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman