Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a video of the song "Sastanàqqàm" by the Northern Malian music group Tinariwen (+IO:I). Tinariwen (+IO:I) are protégés of the award winning music group Tinariwen. As is the case with Tinariwen, Tinariwen (+IO:I) is composed of musicians and singers from the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
This post also includes the lyrics to that song as well as selected comments from those videos' discussion threads.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Tinariwen (+IO:I) for their music. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/03/three-music-videos-of-tinariwen-award.html for a pancocojams post that includes information about and three music video of the award winning Mali, West African Tuareg music group Tinariwen.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Tinariwen (+IO:I) - Sastanàqqàm
Tinariwen, Published on Feb 11, 2017
"Sastanàqqàm" from the album 'Elwan,' ...
“A thousand miles from their homeland in northern Mali, across a vast expanse of desert, the music of Tinariwen has found shelter in the hearts of six young musicians from M’hamid el Ghizlane. They were only boys when the desert rockers first visited their home, back in 2006, but they saw an immediate reflection of their own dreams and aspirations in the music they heard. In the years that followed they learned the Tinariwen songbook note for note, word for word, even though they couldn’t speak a word of Tamashek, the language of the Touareg.
When Tinariwen returned to M’hamid in 2016 to record a new album, those young disciples from M’hamid had achieved a remarkable mastery of the desert guitar repertoire. The torch had been passed from hand to hand and heart to heart across the great desert. The young musicians from M’hamid were invited to perform Abdallah’s ‘Sastaqanam’, standing in for their older brothers and playing with uncanny fidelity. But first the members of Tinariwen wrapped new turbans around the heads of their young acolytes, marking not only the passage from boyhood to manhood according to ancient desert custom, but also the transmission of their music across the generations, a transmission that is taking place in the hearts of youth from every corner of the great Sahara.”
SASTANÀQQÀM (I QUESTION YOU)
Ténéré, can you tell me of anything better
Than to have your friends and your mount,
And a brand new goatskin, watertight,
To find your way by the light
Of the four bright stars of heaven,
To know how to find water in
The unlikeliest of places,
And enlist the momentum of the wind
To help you move forward.
Tell me, Ténéré, how you and I
Can remain united, with no hate for each other.
Ténéré, I can now admit that
I have travelled far through this wide world.
Ténéré, I give you my oath
That as long as I’m alive,
I will always come back to you.
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinariwen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinariwen for information about the award winning Northern Mali, West African music group Tinariwen.
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Here are some comments from this video's discussion thread:
Numbers are assigned for referencing purposes only.
1. Soufiane Artwood, 2017
"african pride ♡"
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2. ameno khalm 2017
"proud of my culture, the Best. this song is all about Tenere, it means the desert. tahoul nawan vous faites notre fierté !!"
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3. MtlSidiaissa, 2017
"The group is from Algeria"
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REPLY
4. Slowtta Derrar, 2017
"Actually they're from Northern Mali the band was founded in Algeria"
REPLY
5. Nedjoua Khechai, 2017
"the language is tamatchek , from south of algeria, its typical culture touareg , actually we are trying to preseve and concerve this old and rich culture, existing from long deep time ..."
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REPLY
6. Brahim Timyaoune
"MtlSidiaissa. No. No"
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REPLY
7. khadi kitty, 2017
"Rania Nana you can read their description box, the group said they are from mali !"
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8. Ronaldo Fenomeno, 2017
"MtlSidiaissa from mali but the same culture .. algeria and mali are amazigh"
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REPLY
9. Hejji, 2017
"These are touareg people who roam the Sahara, they've been nomads for ages and now suddenly because they're getting popular you want to put a label on them? Their only identity is Touareg, not mali, not algeria, not morocco, not tsjaad, ... Just Touareg"
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REPLY
10. Khalid Mohamed, 2018
"MtlSidiaissa they are from Mali but they are living in Algeria they said that on radio interview"
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REPLY
11. bloop blooper, 2018
"In fact, they are from Great Afrika.
They are free travelers."
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REPLY
12. zineb s-j, 2018
"no they are not sorry, they are Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed in 1979 in Tamanrasset, Algeria, there is a difference between from and formed :)
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REPLY
13. braz D Blood, 2018
"doesnt matter from morocco till siwa.
down to mauritana north mali en north chad.
are all amazigh we should reunite"
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"Amazigh" is the preferred referent for the population more commonly known as "Berbers". Tuareg are Amazigh people.
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14. moroccanevil, 2018
"On the discription of music they said that they are from mhamid el ghizlane , it's a district next to zagoura and ouarzazate, i don't know if there is place somewhere else called mhamid ghizlane anyway yhey are touareg ppl of the whole desert from libia to morocco"
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15. ameno khal, 2017
"BIZOU BRAZZA they are singing in our native tongue, the tamasheq, a berber language."
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16. ameno khal, 2017
"inesita365 the touareg way of life is a célébration itself :-D this song is actually a tribute to our motherland the desert."
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17. Marcus Henry Weber, 2018
"This video is great, Tinariwen passing on the music to the next generation. Mashallah."
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Three Music Videos Of Tinariwen, The Award Winning Tuareg Music Group From Mali, West Africa)
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases three videos of the Tuareg musical group Tinariwen from Mali, West Africa.
The Addendum to this post presents information about Tinariwen, information about Amazigh people (Berbers) and information about Tuareg people, "a large Berber ethnic confederation."
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Tinariwen for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: Tinariwen (Algérie/Algeria) | Concert d'ouverture de la Coupe du Monde 2010 (Part 1)
lekabyle45, Published on Jun 11, 2010
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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpm6fH4lkM for Part 2 of this performance at the (soccer/football) World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
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There's often considerable back & forth comment exchanges in the Tinariwen YouTube discussion threads about whether the group is from Mali or Algeria. Here are a few comments from the discussion thread for Part 2 of this performance (Google translations from French to English or from Arabic to English are given after the comments)
alger kouba, 2013
"Tinariwen est un groupe malien , mais qui s'est constitué en Algérie en 1979-1980, car ils ont vécu plusieurs années à Tamenraset. C'est pour ça qu'il arborent l'emblème national algérien."
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"Tinariwen is a Malian group, but it was formed in Algeria in 1979-1980 because they lived for several years in Tamenraset. That's why he wears the Algerian national emblem."
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Fatiha Titay, 2015
"والله ما فهمتش واشنو هدا من مالي ماشي من الجزائر نسيثو بلي الشعب الازاوادي وبصفة عامة الشعب الامازيغي كان شعب واحد يجول ويسوج في شمال افريقيا بدون حدود جغرافية لانه لا توجد حدود ثقافيييية تفو على الستعمار الئ وضع الحدودالجغرافية وغرس فينا النزعة الجهوية فرق تسد"
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"And God, what is the meaning of Wacheno, this is from Mali, who walks from Algeria. The people of Azzawadi were humiliated. In general, the Amazigh people were a single people roaming and weaving in North Africa without geographical borders because there are no cultural boundaries that deviate from colonialism. The establishment of geographical borders and the instigation of regionalism."
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mad al, 2017
"Le leader du groupe est né en mali mais a déménagé en algérie à l'age de 4 ans et y'a vécu pendant plus de 30 ans , c'est là où le groupe s'était formé"
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"The leader of the group was born in Mali but moved to Algeria at the age of 4 and lived there for more than 30 years, this is where the group was formed"
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donyamalak lolo, 2017
"mali ou l'algeire nous sommes tous des freres !!let's just enjoy the music"
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mali or l'algeire we are all brothers !! let's just enjoy the music"
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Example #2: Tinariwen - TENERE TAQQIM TOSSAM
antirecords, Published on Jun 9, 2011
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Click https://genius.com/Tinariwen-tenere-taqqim-tossam-jealous-desert-lyrics for an English translation for this song. Here's information about that song from that same website:
"This song expresses Tinariwen’s love and admiration for the desert. It also begins to show a sound that is embodied in the rest of the album as well.
This song also features Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio."
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Example #3: Tinariwen - "Iswegh Attay"
antirecords, Published on Jan 6, 2012
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This video includes English captions for this song's lyrics.
Here are three comments from this video's discussion thread:
Caecilius Of North Africa, 2016
"Greeting from Morocco to all our north african brothers and sisters, one day we shall all be united in Tamzgha."
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REPLY
fronton le sage, 2016
"amazigh united forever"
**
Broken Pieces, 2016
"Azul my brother. One day it will. please pray for us in the north that someday there will be peace and that we can be free men again. Amazigh for life"
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ADDENDUM:
INFORMATION ABOUT TINARIWEN
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinariwen
"Tinariwen (Tamasheq..."deserts", plural of ténéré "desert"[1]) is a Grammy Award-winning group of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed in 1979[2] in Tamanrasset, Algeria, but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s.[3] The group first started to gain a following outside the Sahara region in 2001 with the release of The Radio Tisdas Sessions, and with performances at Festival au Désert in Mali[4] and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.[5] Their popularity rose internationally with the release of the critically acclaimed Aman Iman in 2007. NPR calls the group "music's true rebels,"[6] AllMusic deems the group's music "a grassroots voice of rebellion,"[7] and Slate calls the group "rock 'n' roll rebels whose rebellion, for once, wasn't just metaphorical."[8]
Early years
Tinariwen was founded by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, who at age four witnessed the execution of his father (a Tuareg rebel) during a 1963 uprising in Mali. As a child he saw a western film in which a cowboy played a guitar. Ag Alhabib built his own guitar out of a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He started to play old Tuareg and modern Arabic pop tunes.[citation needed] Ag Alhabib first lived in Algeria in refugee camps near Bordj Badji Mokhtar and in the deserts around the southern city of Tamanrasset, where he received a guitar from a local Arab man.[9] Later, he resided with other Tuareg exiles in Libya and Algeria.
In the late 1970s, Ag Alhabib joined with other musicians in the Tuareg rebel community…. While the group had no official name, people began to call them Kel Tinariwen, which in the Tamashek language translates as "The People of the Deserts" or "The Desert Boys."
[...]
Since 2001 Tinariwen have toured regularly in Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia; often appearing at large world music/alternative festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella, Roskilde, Les Vieilles Charrues, WOMAD, FMM Sines, and Printemps de Bourges. Tinariwen gained more attention overseas in 2004, with their first UK performance at the largest free African music festival in the country, Africa Oye. Their 2004 album Amassakoul ("The Traveller" in Tamashek) and its 2007 follow-up Aman Iman ("Water Is Life" in Tamashek) were released worldwide…. In 2005 Tinariwen received a BBC Award for World Music, and in 2008 they received Germany’s prestigious Praetorius Music Prize.
[...]
Further international success (2010–present)
In 2010, Tinariwen represented Algeria in the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.[12] They completed 24 performances in the United States of America late in the year.[13]
The band released their fifth album Tassili on August 30, 2011.[14…. The album later won the Award for Best World Music Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.
[...]
Musical style
The Tinariwen sound is primarily guitar-driven in the style known as assouf among the Tuareg people. The Tinariwen guitar style has its roots in West African music, specifically that from the "great bend" region along the Niger River, between Timbuktu and Gao. The core elements of Tinariwen's music are traditional Tuareg melodies and rhythms including those played on the shepherd's flute, which is primarily a man's instrument; and those played on a one-string fiddle known as an imzad which is played by women. The primary percussion instrument is the tindé drum which is played by women at festive occasions. Another important traditional influence is the lute known as the teherdent, which is played by the griots of the Gao and Timbuktu regions. In the late 1970s, when the founding members of Tinariwen started playing acoustic guitars, they played a traditional repertoire adapted to the western guitar.
Other regional influences include Berber music from northern Algeria, especially radical Kabyle singers like Ait Menguellet and Ferhat; the pop sounds of electrified rai music of Algeria; pop singers from Algeria like Rabah Driassa;[9] pop groups from Morocco like Nass El Ghiwane and Lemchaheb with their lute and mandol riffs; the classical pop of Egypt; and even Bollywood music. Tinariwen was also influenced by traditional Malian musicians, the most famous of which was Ali Farka Toure. In the early years of the collective's history, the members were also fans of bootlegged albums by western acts that had made their way to the Tuareg people, with favorites including albums by Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Rogers and Don Williams.
While the Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in 2001.
Band members
Tinariwen is a collective of singers, songwriters, and musicians who come together in different combinations to play concerts and to record. This is because of the nomadic lifestyle of the Tuareg people and the difficulties of transportation and communication in the Sahara region. The group has never brought exactly the same line-up on its international tours, though several members tour regularly.
[...]
Origin Tessalit, Mali
Genres Tishoumaren, world, blues, folk, rock
Years active 1979–present"
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INFORMATION ABOUT AMAZIGH
From https://www.britannica.com/topic/Berber
"Berber, self-name Amazigh, plural Imazighen, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauretania. They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to Ancient Egyptian. At the turn of the 21st century, there were perhaps 14 million in Morocco, 9 million in Algeria, and much smaller numbers in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Mauretania; in the Sahara of southern Algeria and of Libya, Mali and Niger, the Berber Tuareg number about 1 million."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT TUAREG PEOPLE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
"The Tuareg people .... spelt Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Kel Tamasheq, Kel Tagelmust[4]) are a large Berber ethnic confederation. They principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.[4] Traditionally nomadic pastoralists, small groups of Tuareg are also found in northern Nigeria.[5]
The Tuareg speak the Tuareg languages (also known as Tamasheq), which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.[6]
... A semi-nomadic Muslim people, they are believed to be descendants of the Berber natives of North Africa.[9] The Tuaregs have been one of the ethnic groups that have been historically influential in the spread of Islam and its legacy in North Africa and the adjacent Sahel region.
[...]
Regions with significant populations [of Tuaregs]
Niger - 2,116,988[1]
Mali - 536,557[2]
Burkina Faso - 370,738[3]
Algeria - 25,000-150,000
Tunisia - 2,000 (nomadic)
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Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
This pancocojams post showcases three videos of the Tuareg musical group Tinariwen from Mali, West Africa.
The Addendum to this post presents information about Tinariwen, information about Amazigh people (Berbers) and information about Tuareg people, "a large Berber ethnic confederation."
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Tinariwen for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
****
SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: Tinariwen (Algérie/Algeria) | Concert d'ouverture de la Coupe du Monde 2010 (Part 1)
lekabyle45, Published on Jun 11, 2010
-snip-
Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpm6fH4lkM for Part 2 of this performance at the (soccer/football) World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
-snip-
There's often considerable back & forth comment exchanges in the Tinariwen YouTube discussion threads about whether the group is from Mali or Algeria. Here are a few comments from the discussion thread for Part 2 of this performance (Google translations from French to English or from Arabic to English are given after the comments)
alger kouba, 2013
"Tinariwen est un groupe malien , mais qui s'est constitué en Algérie en 1979-1980, car ils ont vécu plusieurs années à Tamenraset. C'est pour ça qu'il arborent l'emblème national algérien."
-snip-
"Tinariwen is a Malian group, but it was formed in Algeria in 1979-1980 because they lived for several years in Tamenraset. That's why he wears the Algerian national emblem."
**
Fatiha Titay, 2015
"والله ما فهمتش واشنو هدا من مالي ماشي من الجزائر نسيثو بلي الشعب الازاوادي وبصفة عامة الشعب الامازيغي كان شعب واحد يجول ويسوج في شمال افريقيا بدون حدود جغرافية لانه لا توجد حدود ثقافيييية تفو على الستعمار الئ وضع الحدودالجغرافية وغرس فينا النزعة الجهوية فرق تسد"
-snip-
"And God, what is the meaning of Wacheno, this is from Mali, who walks from Algeria. The people of Azzawadi were humiliated. In general, the Amazigh people were a single people roaming and weaving in North Africa without geographical borders because there are no cultural boundaries that deviate from colonialism. The establishment of geographical borders and the instigation of regionalism."
**
mad al, 2017
"Le leader du groupe est né en mali mais a déménagé en algérie à l'age de 4 ans et y'a vécu pendant plus de 30 ans , c'est là où le groupe s'était formé"
-snip-
"The leader of the group was born in Mali but moved to Algeria at the age of 4 and lived there for more than 30 years, this is where the group was formed"
**
donyamalak lolo, 2017
"mali ou l'algeire nous sommes tous des freres !!let's just enjoy the music"
-snip-
mali or l'algeire we are all brothers !! let's just enjoy the music"
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Example #2: Tinariwen - TENERE TAQQIM TOSSAM
antirecords, Published on Jun 9, 2011
-snip-
Click https://genius.com/Tinariwen-tenere-taqqim-tossam-jealous-desert-lyrics for an English translation for this song. Here's information about that song from that same website:
"This song expresses Tinariwen’s love and admiration for the desert. It also begins to show a sound that is embodied in the rest of the album as well.
This song also features Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio."
****
Example #3: Tinariwen - "Iswegh Attay"
antirecords, Published on Jan 6, 2012
-snip-
This video includes English captions for this song's lyrics.
Here are three comments from this video's discussion thread:
Caecilius Of North Africa, 2016
"Greeting from Morocco to all our north african brothers and sisters, one day we shall all be united in Tamzgha."
**
REPLY
fronton le sage, 2016
"amazigh united forever"
**
Broken Pieces, 2016
"Azul my brother. One day it will. please pray for us in the north that someday there will be peace and that we can be free men again. Amazigh for life"
****
ADDENDUM:
INFORMATION ABOUT TINARIWEN
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinariwen
"Tinariwen (Tamasheq..."deserts", plural of ténéré "desert"[1]) is a Grammy Award-winning group of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed in 1979[2] in Tamanrasset, Algeria, but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s.[3] The group first started to gain a following outside the Sahara region in 2001 with the release of The Radio Tisdas Sessions, and with performances at Festival au Désert in Mali[4] and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.[5] Their popularity rose internationally with the release of the critically acclaimed Aman Iman in 2007. NPR calls the group "music's true rebels,"[6] AllMusic deems the group's music "a grassroots voice of rebellion,"[7] and Slate calls the group "rock 'n' roll rebels whose rebellion, for once, wasn't just metaphorical."[8]
Early years
Tinariwen was founded by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, who at age four witnessed the execution of his father (a Tuareg rebel) during a 1963 uprising in Mali. As a child he saw a western film in which a cowboy played a guitar. Ag Alhabib built his own guitar out of a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He started to play old Tuareg and modern Arabic pop tunes.[citation needed] Ag Alhabib first lived in Algeria in refugee camps near Bordj Badji Mokhtar and in the deserts around the southern city of Tamanrasset, where he received a guitar from a local Arab man.[9] Later, he resided with other Tuareg exiles in Libya and Algeria.
In the late 1970s, Ag Alhabib joined with other musicians in the Tuareg rebel community…. While the group had no official name, people began to call them Kel Tinariwen, which in the Tamashek language translates as "The People of the Deserts" or "The Desert Boys."
[...]
Since 2001 Tinariwen have toured regularly in Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia; often appearing at large world music/alternative festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella, Roskilde, Les Vieilles Charrues, WOMAD, FMM Sines, and Printemps de Bourges. Tinariwen gained more attention overseas in 2004, with their first UK performance at the largest free African music festival in the country, Africa Oye. Their 2004 album Amassakoul ("The Traveller" in Tamashek) and its 2007 follow-up Aman Iman ("Water Is Life" in Tamashek) were released worldwide…. In 2005 Tinariwen received a BBC Award for World Music, and in 2008 they received Germany’s prestigious Praetorius Music Prize.
[...]
Further international success (2010–present)
In 2010, Tinariwen represented Algeria in the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.[12] They completed 24 performances in the United States of America late in the year.[13]
The band released their fifth album Tassili on August 30, 2011.[14…. The album later won the Award for Best World Music Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.
[...]
Musical style
The Tinariwen sound is primarily guitar-driven in the style known as assouf among the Tuareg people. The Tinariwen guitar style has its roots in West African music, specifically that from the "great bend" region along the Niger River, between Timbuktu and Gao. The core elements of Tinariwen's music are traditional Tuareg melodies and rhythms including those played on the shepherd's flute, which is primarily a man's instrument; and those played on a one-string fiddle known as an imzad which is played by women. The primary percussion instrument is the tindé drum which is played by women at festive occasions. Another important traditional influence is the lute known as the teherdent, which is played by the griots of the Gao and Timbuktu regions. In the late 1970s, when the founding members of Tinariwen started playing acoustic guitars, they played a traditional repertoire adapted to the western guitar.
Other regional influences include Berber music from northern Algeria, especially radical Kabyle singers like Ait Menguellet and Ferhat; the pop sounds of electrified rai music of Algeria; pop singers from Algeria like Rabah Driassa;[9] pop groups from Morocco like Nass El Ghiwane and Lemchaheb with their lute and mandol riffs; the classical pop of Egypt; and even Bollywood music. Tinariwen was also influenced by traditional Malian musicians, the most famous of which was Ali Farka Toure. In the early years of the collective's history, the members were also fans of bootlegged albums by western acts that had made their way to the Tuareg people, with favorites including albums by Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Rogers and Don Williams.
While the Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in 2001.
Band members
Tinariwen is a collective of singers, songwriters, and musicians who come together in different combinations to play concerts and to record. This is because of the nomadic lifestyle of the Tuareg people and the difficulties of transportation and communication in the Sahara region. The group has never brought exactly the same line-up on its international tours, though several members tour regularly.
[...]
Origin Tessalit, Mali
Genres Tishoumaren, world, blues, folk, rock
Years active 1979–present"
****
INFORMATION ABOUT AMAZIGH
From https://www.britannica.com/topic/Berber
"Berber, self-name Amazigh, plural Imazighen, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauretania. They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to Ancient Egyptian. At the turn of the 21st century, there were perhaps 14 million in Morocco, 9 million in Algeria, and much smaller numbers in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Mauretania; in the Sahara of southern Algeria and of Libya, Mali and Niger, the Berber Tuareg number about 1 million."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT TUAREG PEOPLE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
"The Tuareg people .... spelt Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Kel Tamasheq, Kel Tagelmust[4]) are a large Berber ethnic confederation. They principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.[4] Traditionally nomadic pastoralists, small groups of Tuareg are also found in northern Nigeria.[5]
The Tuareg speak the Tuareg languages (also known as Tamasheq), which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.[6]
... A semi-nomadic Muslim people, they are believed to be descendants of the Berber natives of North Africa.[9] The Tuaregs have been one of the ethnic groups that have been historically influential in the spread of Islam and its legacy in North Africa and the adjacent Sahel region.
[...]
Regions with significant populations [of Tuaregs]
Niger - 2,116,988[1]
Mali - 536,557[2]
Burkina Faso - 370,738[3]
Algeria - 25,000-150,000
Tunisia - 2,000 (nomadic)
****
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Visitor comments are welcome.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Music Performances From Previous Festivals au Désert (In Mali, West Africa)
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post provides information about the Festival au Désert (Festival in the Desert) in Mali, West Africa and showcases five videos of music performances from previous festivals.
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All copyrights remain with their owners.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL IN THE DESERT (MALI, WEST AFRICA)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_au_D%C3%A9sert
"The Festival au désert ("Festival in the Desert") is an annual concert in Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The first Festival took place in Tin Essako in 2001 and then it moved to Tessalit in 2002 in the Kidal region (North-East Mali). From 2003 until 2009 the festival was held in Essakane 65km from Timbuktu but because of security issues, from 2010 the festival was held on the outskirts of Timbuktu.[1][2]
The Tuareg band Tinariwen first garnered international attention with their performance at the 2001 Festival.
A French-language documentary entitled Le Festival au Désert was filmed at the 2003 festival. Performers include Tartit, Oumou Sangaré, Lo'Jo, Tinariwen, Robert Plant with Justin Adams, Blackfire, Khaira Arby and her band, Django, and Ali Farka Touré.[3] The DVD contains English subtitles, and an audio CD of the concert, Festival in the Desert, was also released.
The documentary Dambé: The Mali Project tells the story of a cross-cultural musical adventure over 3000 miles by two Irish musicians, that features performances from the Festival au désert.[4]
Shortly after the January 2012 festival, the Northern Mali conflict began, resulting in the postponement of the 2013 festival.[5] In July and August 2013, Tartit, Imharhan, and Mamadou Kelly toured throughout North America as the Festival au Desert - Caravan for Peace.[5][6][7] An audio recording of the 2012 edition Festival au Desert Live from Timbuktu was released in 2013 featuring performances by 18 artists with supplemental digital bonus performances.
The Festival has continued to be postponed due to security concerns in the region."...
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From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/malis-festival-au-desert-cancelled-amid-fears-of-extremist-violence Mali cancels return of famous music festival after al-Qaida attack
Fabled Festival au Désert was coming back to Timbuktu after years in exile but officials blocked it at last minute over security fears
Ruth Maclean in Dakar, Monday 30 January 2017
"The fabled Festival au Désert was returning to Timbuktu, but it was a carefully guarded secret.
Musicians had packed their instruments for the journey to northern Mali. Technical teams had already loaded their sound systems into canoes and taken the river route to the ancient city of learning. None of the festival-going public had yet been told, but the organisers were confident they would turn out, possibly in their thousands.
It was a secret because it was a potential target for extremists in Mali’s lawless north. Since 2012, the world-famous festival, which attracted Malian nomads and music fans from all over the world, has been in exile, driven from its home in the first place by Islamic extremists who banned music, and kept out ever since by insecurity.
But this weekend was to mark its triumphant return, and a huge amount of effort had gone into organising it.
When militants took over northern Mali in 2012, they applied Sharia law. Women were whipped for wearing clothes deemed indecent, and thieves had their hands cut off. But the militants also banned music in a culture where griots, praise-singers and story-tellers are of great importance, and where music is considered the lifeblood of society.
Though the militants were driven out by a French-led force nine months after they took over, peace talks have been halting and have resulted in little success.
Two weeks ago, however, suicide bombers attacked a military camp in the city of Gao, killing at least 77 people and wounding more than 100 others.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the attack. Three people have been arrested in connection, according to the Malian minister of security.
The organisers of the Festival in the Desert immediately held meetings to decide what to do, but decided to go ahead with it....
However, at the last minute, Malian officials blocked it.
A music producer who has organised concerts all over Mali in spite of security concerns said that the festival in the desert was about far more than just the music – it was about bringing people together, and reconciling past grievances if need be.
“It wasn’t like going to a concert,” Paul Chandler said. “It became a community for that time. A really open community, and a chance to meet people who were really different from you, and find out that they’re not that different after all. The music was just part of it. The community was the main thing.”...
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Read more about this festival in the summary statement for some of the videos that are found below.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: Mali_10 [2007]
Leandre Busquet, Uploaded on Mar 7, 2007
Festival au desert, Essakane 2007
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Example #2: Improvised jam at the Festival au Desert, Mali January 2010
Valentina Canavesio, Uploaded on Aug 31, 2010
Members of Terakaft and Taliwen jam in the desert.
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Example #3: Experience the Festival in the Desert / Festival au Desert
EssakaneFilm, Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Essakane Film is a feature length documentary about the most remote music festival in the world—the Festival au Désert—and the battle to make it happen. Once a year, just outside of Timbuktu in the sand dunes of the Sahara, a music festival that serves to sustain peace and resolve regional conflict rocks the socks off an audience of thousands for three days straight. From Robert Plant to Jimmy Buffett, musicians from around the world have journeyed through the mystical terrain of the Sahara to jam with Malian, Tuareg, and West African musicians at the Festival au Désert.
As a homegrown approach to sustaining peace, democracy, and for developing tourism in Mali, the festival has brought significant cultural awareness and economic development to the local communities in the region and the tourism sector in Mali. But sadly, over the past few years, security warnings issued by Western governments have increased, affecting the attendance at the festival and threatening its viability. But that will not stop the festival organizers, the community, and the musicians who rock the stage from putting on another great show.
For more info on The Last Song Before the War:
http://www.thelastsongbeforethewar.com
For more info on the Festival in the Desert:
http://www.festival-au-desert.org/
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Example #4: Mali Blues - Le Monde pour la Paix - For Peace in Mali - Vieux Farka, Bassekou, Khaira Arby
Mali Blues Published on May 13, 2012
Le Monde pour la Paix - by JeConte & The Mali Allstars - The featured track off the coming 2012 release 'Mali Blues for Peace' or 'Mali Blues pour la Paix' written by JeConte & Adama Drame form JeConte & The Mali Allstars featuring guests Vieux Farka Touré, Khaira Arby & Bassekou Kouyate.
"We call on our ancestors to come together for peace... for a better World... for hope in Mali. We ask everyone to hold hands for peace and be one people, one Malian culture uniting for peace in Mali and the World." This is what the words say at the beginning of this powerful track, in Tamashek by Khiara Arby and Songhay by Vieux Farka Toure. Along with the beautiful melodic N'goni work of Bassekou Kouyate we are brought into a better World, a World of home...a World of peace.
JeConte & Adama Drame of the band JeConte & The Mali Allstars worked together on this song, crafting it to its full potential during the eruption of the coup in Mali in March 2012. The footage you see here is behind the scenes footage from the sessions at studio Yeelen in Bamako and also footage from the coup d'etat, Bamako, and the Festival in the Desert outside Timbuktu.
You can learn more about this amazing band and their forthcoming album and tour dates at their website http://www.themaliblues.com./
Mali Blues is gonna get you...
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Example #5: Festival in the Desert - Highlighting Tuareg Culture, Tartit & Tinariwen
MaliDesertFest, Published on May 30, 2013
The Festival in the Desert
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The music begins at .047 in this video.
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This pancocojams post provides information about the Festival au Désert (Festival in the Desert) in Mali, West Africa and showcases five videos of music performances from previous festivals.
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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the performers who are showcased in these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of the YouTube videos that are embedded in this post.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL IN THE DESERT (MALI, WEST AFRICA)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_au_D%C3%A9sert
"The Festival au désert ("Festival in the Desert") is an annual concert in Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The first Festival took place in Tin Essako in 2001 and then it moved to Tessalit in 2002 in the Kidal region (North-East Mali). From 2003 until 2009 the festival was held in Essakane 65km from Timbuktu but because of security issues, from 2010 the festival was held on the outskirts of Timbuktu.[1][2]
The Tuareg band Tinariwen first garnered international attention with their performance at the 2001 Festival.
A French-language documentary entitled Le Festival au Désert was filmed at the 2003 festival. Performers include Tartit, Oumou Sangaré, Lo'Jo, Tinariwen, Robert Plant with Justin Adams, Blackfire, Khaira Arby and her band, Django, and Ali Farka Touré.[3] The DVD contains English subtitles, and an audio CD of the concert, Festival in the Desert, was also released.
The documentary Dambé: The Mali Project tells the story of a cross-cultural musical adventure over 3000 miles by two Irish musicians, that features performances from the Festival au désert.[4]
Shortly after the January 2012 festival, the Northern Mali conflict began, resulting in the postponement of the 2013 festival.[5] In July and August 2013, Tartit, Imharhan, and Mamadou Kelly toured throughout North America as the Festival au Desert - Caravan for Peace.[5][6][7] An audio recording of the 2012 edition Festival au Desert Live from Timbuktu was released in 2013 featuring performances by 18 artists with supplemental digital bonus performances.
The Festival has continued to be postponed due to security concerns in the region."...
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From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/malis-festival-au-desert-cancelled-amid-fears-of-extremist-violence Mali cancels return of famous music festival after al-Qaida attack
Fabled Festival au Désert was coming back to Timbuktu after years in exile but officials blocked it at last minute over security fears
Ruth Maclean in Dakar, Monday 30 January 2017
"The fabled Festival au Désert was returning to Timbuktu, but it was a carefully guarded secret.
Musicians had packed their instruments for the journey to northern Mali. Technical teams had already loaded their sound systems into canoes and taken the river route to the ancient city of learning. None of the festival-going public had yet been told, but the organisers were confident they would turn out, possibly in their thousands.
It was a secret because it was a potential target for extremists in Mali’s lawless north. Since 2012, the world-famous festival, which attracted Malian nomads and music fans from all over the world, has been in exile, driven from its home in the first place by Islamic extremists who banned music, and kept out ever since by insecurity.
But this weekend was to mark its triumphant return, and a huge amount of effort had gone into organising it.
When militants took over northern Mali in 2012, they applied Sharia law. Women were whipped for wearing clothes deemed indecent, and thieves had their hands cut off. But the militants also banned music in a culture where griots, praise-singers and story-tellers are of great importance, and where music is considered the lifeblood of society.
Though the militants were driven out by a French-led force nine months after they took over, peace talks have been halting and have resulted in little success.
Two weeks ago, however, suicide bombers attacked a military camp in the city of Gao, killing at least 77 people and wounding more than 100 others.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the attack. Three people have been arrested in connection, according to the Malian minister of security.
The organisers of the Festival in the Desert immediately held meetings to decide what to do, but decided to go ahead with it....
However, at the last minute, Malian officials blocked it.
A music producer who has organised concerts all over Mali in spite of security concerns said that the festival in the desert was about far more than just the music – it was about bringing people together, and reconciling past grievances if need be.
“It wasn’t like going to a concert,” Paul Chandler said. “It became a community for that time. A really open community, and a chance to meet people who were really different from you, and find out that they’re not that different after all. The music was just part of it. The community was the main thing.”...
-snip-
Read more about this festival in the summary statement for some of the videos that are found below.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: Mali_10 [2007]
Leandre Busquet, Uploaded on Mar 7, 2007
Festival au desert, Essakane 2007
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Example #2: Improvised jam at the Festival au Desert, Mali January 2010
Valentina Canavesio, Uploaded on Aug 31, 2010
Members of Terakaft and Taliwen jam in the desert.
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Example #3: Experience the Festival in the Desert / Festival au Desert
EssakaneFilm, Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Essakane Film is a feature length documentary about the most remote music festival in the world—the Festival au Désert—and the battle to make it happen. Once a year, just outside of Timbuktu in the sand dunes of the Sahara, a music festival that serves to sustain peace and resolve regional conflict rocks the socks off an audience of thousands for three days straight. From Robert Plant to Jimmy Buffett, musicians from around the world have journeyed through the mystical terrain of the Sahara to jam with Malian, Tuareg, and West African musicians at the Festival au Désert.
As a homegrown approach to sustaining peace, democracy, and for developing tourism in Mali, the festival has brought significant cultural awareness and economic development to the local communities in the region and the tourism sector in Mali. But sadly, over the past few years, security warnings issued by Western governments have increased, affecting the attendance at the festival and threatening its viability. But that will not stop the festival organizers, the community, and the musicians who rock the stage from putting on another great show.
For more info on The Last Song Before the War:
http://www.thelastsongbeforethewar.com
For more info on the Festival in the Desert:
http://www.festival-au-desert.org/
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Example #4: Mali Blues - Le Monde pour la Paix - For Peace in Mali - Vieux Farka, Bassekou, Khaira Arby
Mali Blues Published on May 13, 2012
Le Monde pour la Paix - by JeConte & The Mali Allstars - The featured track off the coming 2012 release 'Mali Blues for Peace' or 'Mali Blues pour la Paix' written by JeConte & Adama Drame form JeConte & The Mali Allstars featuring guests Vieux Farka Touré, Khaira Arby & Bassekou Kouyate.
"We call on our ancestors to come together for peace... for a better World... for hope in Mali. We ask everyone to hold hands for peace and be one people, one Malian culture uniting for peace in Mali and the World." This is what the words say at the beginning of this powerful track, in Tamashek by Khiara Arby and Songhay by Vieux Farka Toure. Along with the beautiful melodic N'goni work of Bassekou Kouyate we are brought into a better World, a World of home...a World of peace.
JeConte & Adama Drame of the band JeConte & The Mali Allstars worked together on this song, crafting it to its full potential during the eruption of the coup in Mali in March 2012. The footage you see here is behind the scenes footage from the sessions at studio Yeelen in Bamako and also footage from the coup d'etat, Bamako, and the Festival in the Desert outside Timbuktu.
You can learn more about this amazing band and their forthcoming album and tour dates at their website http://www.themaliblues.com./
Mali Blues is gonna get you...
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Example #5: Festival in the Desert - Highlighting Tuareg Culture, Tartit & Tinariwen
MaliDesertFest, Published on May 30, 2013
The Festival in the Desert
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The music begins at .047 in this video.
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