LA-006 Amanar - Alghafiat Distributed Titles

LA-006 Amanar - Alghafiat Distributed TitlesTuareg guitar from Northern Mali by Kidal's hometown band. A different side of desert blues with high energy gritty guitar sessions that are popular favorites. Recorded at a local studio in 2008 during the last uprising, the music is very poignant as the North has again fallen into rebellion and the band is scattered in exile. The title translates as "Peace". Includes detailed liner notes in Tifinagh. A split release with Sahel Sounds.

buzzing tones widely noted for their ability to sweetly refresh one’s soul

or layered with intricate arrangements

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after he had already been a star in Mali for over 25 years

A collection of 16 pieces privately released by Norma Lyon in the late 1960s

This recording features a variety of modal divisions of Iranian music with poetry that speaks of both earthly and mystical love stories

Learning how to play the guitar using the tuning for an oud

Recorded at a local studio in 2008 during the last uprising

Tayta Shanti’s long history of complex syncretism is expressed through its simple song structure

became the centre of the immensely popular style of music known as qaraami

the other a graceful

including “Flight of the Spirit Geese