Elwan / Tinariwen = +IO:I.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 87467-2 | Anti-Spoken language: Tamashek Publisher: [Los Angeles, California] : Anti-, [2017]Copyright date: ℗2017Description: 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Parallel title in insert: Elephants
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Northport Library | CD | WORLD Tinariwen | Available | 33111009041514 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Decades of cultural displacement, political unrest, and even a kidnapping have somehow failed to dim the spirit of Tinariwen, the long-tenured Saharan desert blues outfit from Northern Mali. Over 30 years into their career and with six albums to their credit, the Tuareg band has maintained a global presence and garnered widespread critical acclaim for its distinctive sound fusing West African assouf traditions with a potent multi-guitar attack. For their seventh album, Elwan, Tinariwen reunited with producer Patrick Votan, who also helmed 2014's dramatic Emmaar. Just prior to Emmaar, the band was exiled from Mali, fleeing from the militant Islamist regime Ansar Dine, who denounced popular music as "Satan's music." With their homeland still in conflict, this album marks the second time the embattled musicians were unable to record on native soil. Captured in France, Morocco, and California, Elwan is a work of subtle power, relying less on the atmospheric grace of its predecessors and focusing on the distilled, fine-tuned engine of Tinariwen's percussive core. Overall, the album's production is more immediate and, with its tasteful contingent of rock-oriented guests like Kurt Vile, Mark Lanegan, Alain Johannes, and Matt Sweeney, the arrangements still remain spare and effective. On the slowly unfurling "Ténéré Tàqqàl," gently snaking riffs belie the tension of the lyrics, which make reference to uprisings, both human and animal. On "Imidiwàn N-Àkall-In," a track full of quietly roiling tension, bandleader Ibrahim Ag Alhabib sings "My own people have abandoned their ancestral ways, all that's left is a groaning land full of old people and children." While there is certainly bitterness throughout Elwan's 13 tracks, there is hope, love, and motivation, too. On the dreamy "Nànnuflày," a spray of smoothly interlocking guitar riffs build as Alhabib and the group deliver a call-and-response to which guest vocalist Lanegan replies "No sleepwalking, don't keep me apart, I'm through sleepwalking, God be in my heart." Exiles, explorers, and seekers of inner truth, Tinariwen once again deliver a vital and engaging album. ~ Timothy Monger
Popular music from Mali.
Sung in Tamashek.
Title from disc label.
Tinariwen; with assisting musicians.
Recorded 2016 February 15-March 2, the Bivouac Le Petit Prince, M'Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco; 2016 March, Melodium Studios, Montreuil, France; 2014 October 20-24, Rancho de la Luna, Joshua Tree, CA.
Lyrics with English translations (13 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Tiwàyyen (3:43) -- Sastanàqqàm = I question you (3:23) -- Nizzagh ijbal = I live in the mountains (3:39) -- Hayati = My life (3:22) -- Ittus = Our goal (3:45) -- Ténéré tàqqàl = What has become of the Ténéré (4:25) -- Imidiwàn n-àkall-in = Friends from my own land (3:32) -- Talyat = Girl (4:13) -- Assàwt = The voice of Tamashek women (3:39) -- Arhegh ad annàgh = I want to tell you (2:46) -- Nànnuflày = Fulfilled (5:05) -- [Intro flute Fog edaghàn (1:26)] -- [Fog edaghàn (3:07)].
For the last five years, Tinariwen has been busy criss-crossing the globe while expanding their audience. Their eighth studio album was recorded at various locations across the world, which added some new magic to their music.