Aratan N Azawad

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All Music Guide - Chris Nickson
The new album from Terakaft presents the Tamasheq band in live performance, with a lean tightness to the sound that leaves the group positioned between the desert blues genre and rock. A song like "Aman Wi Kawalnen" has the suppleness of the best Sahara bands, but the flow of lead guitar work that characterizes rock. Even where acoustic guitar dominates, as with "Aratan N Azawad," that same feel is there. In part that's because the band is only a three-piece (two guitars, bass, and vocals, supplemented for the recording with percussion and some additional guitar), offering a sparer, cleaner sound. There's a liquid beauty to the music with its easy, rolling rhythms, but ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Chris Nickson
The new album from Terakaft presents the Tamasheq band in live performance, with a lean tightness to the sound that leaves the group positioned between the desert blues genre and rock. A song like "Aman Wi Kawalnen" has the suppleness of the best Sahara bands, but the flow of lead guitar work that characterizes rock. Even where acoustic guitar dominates, as with "Aratan N Azawad," that same feel is there. In part that's because the band is only a three-piece (two guitars, bass, and vocals, supplemented for the recording with percussion and some additional guitar), offering a sparer, cleaner sound. There's a liquid beauty to the music with its easy, rolling rhythms, but the intensity always simmers, occasionally firing into flame, as with the biting, incisive guitar breaks in "Ahabib." It's no longer fair to call Terakaft an up-and-coming band. On this basis of this, they've arrived, with their sound fully developed.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 6/14/2011
  • Label: World Village Usa
  • UPC: 794881994724
  • Catalog Number: 479052
  • Sales rank: 70,661

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Alghalem (3:41)
  2. 2 Talikoba (3:16)
  3. 3 Aratan N Azawad (4:21)
  4. 4 Aman Wi Kawalnen (3:45)
  5. 5 Ahod (3:42)
  6. 6 Idiya Idohena (2:35)
  7. 7 Amazzagh (3:54)
  8. 8 Ahabib (5:01)
  9. 9 Akoz Imgharen (2:50)
  10. 10 Wer Essinen (3:49)
  11. 11 Kek Amidi Nin (3:32)
  12. 12 Hegh Ténéré (3:37)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Terakaft Primary Artist
Abdallah Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Jean Louis Livenais Bass, Guitar
Sanou Ag Ahmed Guitar, Vocals
Liya Ag Ablil Guitar, Vocals
Mathias Vaguenez Percussion
Abdallah Ag Ahmed Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Technical Credits
Nadia Nid El Mourid Back Cover Photo
Philippe Brix Executive Producer, Management
Nadia Belalimat translation
Sanou Ag Ahmed Composer
Liya Ag Ablil Composer
Olivier "Cali" Fournier Engineer
Maryam Jibrilu translation
Abdallah Ag Ahmed Composer
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