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01. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Urar
02. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Quarrelling With The Gods
03. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - The Arc Of The Draa
04. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Tamawayt
05. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Asnimer Lhnna
06. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Tamawayt Of Amksa
07. Troupe Asnimer & Jh Burch - Izli Lmsaq
ARTIST
TITLE
Troupe Asnimer & JH Burch
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
BS 089LP BS 089LP
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RELEASE DATE
6/6/2025

Multi-instrumentalist and composer J.H. Burch gives new intensity to a neglected ethnographic and folklore reality: the rural Amazigh poets of the Ait Bouguemez valley of Morocco. His vision of cultural exchange led him to the vocal repertoire of the all-female Troupe Asnimer, whom for decades have been amongst the most important custodians of the various Amazigh oral art forms in the region. The Asnimer women recite in chorus songs written by numerous anonymous authors, some dating back centuries, making their tradition and a fluid and constantly evolving collective oeuvre. Each of the tribal forms has its own time and place, some like Tamawayt are poems of travel and lamentation, Timnadin of daily labor, others are sung as Sufi rites. From the Asia and the Pacific, J.H. Burch succeeds here through his knowledge of different sound traditions and a varied use of instrumentation (baglama, santur, tanpura, kamanche, organ, deyurey, electronics, percussion), and in becoming a conduit for Asnimer, frames the collaboration without distorting its ancestral and rural physiognomy. On the contrary, the songs of the Amazigh tribes of the Haut-Atlas are colored through Afro-Asiatic spiritual arrangements of meditative sensitivity.