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i sing the desert electric (download)
Recorded over the past three years “I Sing the Desert Electric” is a short film I’ve pieced together from video that I hastily shot while documenting music. Final Cut, a little post production, and...
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Niger Guitars Pt. 1
Mohamed Karzo – C’est La Vie Guitar music in Niger is curiously distant from its Malian cousins. Looking at a map of the Sahara and following the roads, it makes sense – though the two countries share...
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Mammane and his Electronic Organ
Lost in a music archive in the capital of Niger was the first I heard of the legendary Mammane Sanni Abdoulaye. The space was overflowing with dusty CDs, cassettes, and Nagra reels, and hunkering down...
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Niger Guitars Pt. 2
Haïdara and Abdoulaye live with their friends in a compound on the fringes of Niamey, the capital of Niger. The two concrete buildings house perhaps thirty students who have come here to attend the...
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Mamane Sani et Son Orgue 2012
Mamane Sani et Son Orgue, recorded live on his workstation, Niamey, 2012. Mamane Sani – Lamru (2012)The post Mamane Sani et Son Orgue 2012 appeared first on sahelsounds.
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Välkomna
To my Scandinavian friends: I’m in Sweden this week! Amanar was supposed to be joining me, but due to visa issues I’m representing Azawad by my lonesome. I’ll be in Stockholm and on the 11 and 12th...
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sahel vinyl
The mixtape of Music from Saharan Cellphones has been made into two vinyl records, but the momentum continues and two of the featured artists now have full lengths of their own. Afelan by Mdou Moctar...
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been back in Niger working on a film project in Agadez with Jérome Fino from the Marseille based collective l’improbable. In addition, we’ve been shooting some short music...
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remembrance
Japonais – Piyano 1 Back in 2012, I found a few incredible instrumental piano tracks in Niger. This trip to Agadez, I asked around and friends were quick to identify them as the work of a young man...
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Libyan Reggae and the frauders of Agadez
Regue Lybie – Zira Am While in Agadez, we dip out of town for a wedding. There’s a very vanilla, somewhat boring, festivity at the bride’s village – a handful of people sit under a tree while the band...
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Mamman Sani Eurovision
Just returned from Niger, where I’ve been working with Mamman Sani in preparation for his first international tour (on a few dates, joined with the incredible Lonnie Holley). We’ll be heading to...
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medium and the message
Super Onze – Gao Around the fall of Gao in 2012, I met a cassette vendor in Niamey’s grand market. For years he has sat on a bench in a busy corridor with stacks of cassettes and an array of...
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mariam ahmed
Mariam Ahmed is a guitarist in Agadez, which in itself is not spectacular. With so many guitarists in the city, one needs not to search far. However, there are practically no female guitarists in...
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rain the color of blue with a little red in it
A few years back, a friend and I were joking about the idea of adapting films to the Sahara. The buddy cop film in Nouakchott, the alien invasion of the Western Sahara. We eventually came to Prince’s...
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Adouma Ousmane, musician from the court of the Sultan of Agadez, playing the Algaita.The post sultans of swing appeared first on sahelsounds.
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all gold everything
Before the Kickstarter finished, we left for Niger to shoot the footage that will eventually become the film “Akounak.” The windy season was fast approaching, which would be followed by a blistering...
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close encounters
The next two weeks, Mamman Sani will be touring around France (plus brief stopovers in Geneva and London). We have a great lineup of shows, sharing bills w/ Group Inerane, Phono Mundial, and the...
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tuaregs in paris
Tonight we begin our first stop on for the Mdou Moctar summer tour across Europe. Lot’s of dates, from Sweden all the way down to Portugal (Paris date coming soon)! For more details, check here.The...
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The debut tour of Mdou Moctar and the band wrapped up last month. I’ve spent the past month since the tour thinking of how best to sum up the experience. In lieu of too many words, I’ve put together...
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