that Magat Milkitna Dulaa track is sick!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
Related thread: S&D: the Sahel Sounds label
I'm not so hot on all of this stuff (too many guitars, ha) but Sahel have definitely put out a few things I like an awful lot. Will have a listen to yr youtube recs later as I do want to try out more.
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
I went through a phase where I was completely obsessed with this album, which was the first gnawa I heardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Qve2jxqNk
This was pre-streaming and pre-everything-is-available-all-the-time, so I wound up searching largely in vain for similar music, since a lot of other "gnawa" records were more in the world music vain and I was being a purist about it. Still think it's an incredible album. I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it. The marketing schtick used for it in the US is a bit annoying too, but w/e, you can't market a foreign artist in the US without some kind of hook.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 2 May 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it.
I've never been as huge a Tinariwen fan as lots of other people; I prefer female vocalists to male, in that style, so Mariem Hassan and Tartit and now Les Filles de Illighadad are my favorites.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 2 May 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
Do/should we think of this as a single record?
https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-1-family-pr-001-pr-002
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:19 (two months ago) link