add to cart
add to wantlist
email a friend
 
PRICE:
$18.50
IN STOCK
01. Al Bilali Soudan - Khadeïdja
02. Al Bilali Soudan - Addarajat
03. Al Bilali Soudan - Djaba
04. Al Bilali Soudan - Mariama
05. Al Bilali Soudan - Yermakoi
06. Al Bilali Soudan - Hoummaïssa
07. Al Bilali Soudan - Tabaïtara
ARTIST
TITLE
Tombouctou
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
CLE 029LP CLE 029LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/17/2020

LP version. Al Bilali Soudan are Abellaw Yattara, Aboubacrine Yattara, Mohamed Ag Abellaw, and Thialé Ag Aboubacrine. Fathers and sons, uncles and cousins. Forgeron, griot, bards from Tombouctou/Timbuktu, Northern Mali instrumentation is tehardant/ngoni and calabash. Traditional repertoire adapted and improvised. Lightning fast, sometimes looping, sometimes lyrical. This is dance music, this is culture preserved, this is to encourage people who have fled from their homes. This is modern music performed on ancient instruments. Like the polyglot region where they live, their lyrics are in Tamasheq, Songhai, French and English Al Bilali Soudan perform frequently at celebrations and festivals.