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AL BILALI SOUDAN - proto punk rock takamba - a love song to the beautiful Hamzia - from their recent album BABI.
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- artist:Al Bilali Soudan (Mali)
- featured artist:Abellau Yattara, Aboubacrine Yattara, Mohamed Abellaw, Ibrahim Ag Aboubacrine
- release year:2023
- style(s):Touareg
- country:Mali
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Clermont Music
- label:Clermont Music
- publisher:Clermont Music
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AL BILALI SOUDAN from Timbuktu - proto punk rock takamba - this music blows up any
preconceptions. An extended family of musicians and griots sought after for generations. Torch-
bearers of quintessential Tamasheq music shaped by loops, shouts and the continuous
interweave of tehardent and hand percussion. These masters bring youth and energy with
lightning fast mastery of traditional sounds improvised and adapted into the 21st century.
“The electronic buzz of plugged-in tehardent no longer sounds like the repetition of background music.
Now, it starts a fire, fully energized, and with every member at full volume.” Adriane Pontecorvo - popmatters.com
“From Timbuktu, as we spell it, four or five male blood relatives shout and expostulate their songs in
Tamashek and Songhai … as they thrash and manipulate their ngoni-like tehardents. Whether conjoining
barely coexisting peoples or boosting kind women who are better than they are, both of which they
make sound worthy and neither of which they make sound easy, they will get your attention,
guaranteed. If you like desert music enough to suspect you've heard it before, you haven't--Tinariwen
are showbiz by comparison, Tamikrest urbane, Tartit cute.“ Robert Christgau