Various Artists - Music from Saharan Cellphones, Vol. 1-2 (2011-2013)
BAND/ARTIST: Various artists
- Title: Music from Saharan Cellphones, Vol. 1-2
- Year Of Release: 2011; 2013
- Label: Sahel Sounds
- Genre: World; African Music; Blues; Electronic
- Quality: FLAC lossless
- Total Time: 43:22; 45:59
- Total Size: 278; 295 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Music from Saharan Cellphones, Vol. 1
'Music From Saharan Cellphones' serves as both a glimpse into the rich contemporary culture of the Trans-Sahara and a bunch of music you've likely never encountered before, it comprises nine tracks transferred via bluetooth from the mobile phones of residents in Kidal, Northern Mali at the beginning of 2010.
Across Western Africa everyone loves playing music thru their phone's loudspeaker - with popular tracks simply spread via bluetooth from person to person, phone to phone, creating a profuse and uncontainable sonic landscape as diverse and transient as the sand ocean "port-towns" themselves. Kidal is one of these metaphorical docks, a major hub in the Saharan network, linking North Africa with Sub Saharan regions and further beyond, and it's also the locus of the record's compiler, Christopher Kirkley's attentions.
He collected these tracks at night, swapping mp3s from his own collection for everything from local Tuareg anthems to DIY, auto-tuned HipHop produced on cracked software. We reckon you'll be genuinely surprised and delighted at discoveries like Group Anmataff's melancholy, low-slung Algerian drum machine and guitar groove 'Tinariwen' or the intricate drum programming and microtonal keyboard flourishes of Negib Ould Ngainich's 'Guetna', but best of all has to be the emphatic emotions of Mdou Moctar's swaying autotune ballad 'Tahoultine' or Bayta Ag Bay's forlorn guitar on 'Aicha'.
While the irony of these tracks being transferred from mp3 to vinyl shouldn't be lost on you, it's nevertheless a marvellous, beautiful record which has already had The Guardian and The Wire singing its praises, if that makes any difference.
Wholeheartedly recommended!
Tracklist:
01. Group Anmataff - Tinariwen (6:17)
02. Yeli Fuzzo - Abandé (3:31)
03. Amanar - Alghafiat (6:38)
04. Negib Ould Ngainich - Guetna (1:15)
05. Papito feat. Iba One - Yereyira (4:48)
06. Mdou Moctar - Tahoultine (5:38)
07. Kaba Blon - Moribiyassa (3:41)
08. Joskar Et Flamzy - Faroter (5:27)
09. Bayta Ag Bay - Aicha (6:09)
Music from Saharan Cellphones, Vol. 2
Another glorious dispatch from the dusty cellphone hard-drives of the Sahel; ten songs traded among populations of a region stretching between Mauritania and Sudan along the verdant edge of the Sahara. As with the West, cellphones there are increasingly used more for their storage and portable speaker functions than tools of communication, perhaps even more so due to prohibitive costs and network inaccessibility. While living in one of Northern Mali's trans-saharan capitals in 2009-2010, Christopher Kirkley set about collecting stacks of tunes which were widely circulated between local phones, resulting in this 2nd volume of songs which may well be outdated to them by now but which form a fascinating temporal document for outsiders. A star of the 1st volume Mdou Moctar opens this volume with signature autotune, bump beat and steel strings on 'Anar', and you'll also find a cute version of 1st African reggae song, Alpha Blondy's 'Brigadier Sabari', plus hip hop from Niger's Lakal Kaney, DJ Mopao's bouncing Coupé Décalé and our highlights; the steppin' trance and R&B delivery of Iba One's 'All (Remix)' or a then-ten year old Cheba Wassila's Moroccan Raï hit 'Hwa Heda'. Another priceless selection of oddities from this intriguing imprint.
Tracklist:
01. Mdou Moctar - Anar (4:35)
02. Mouma Bob - Imidiwane (5:17)
03. Enfant Libya - Friday (1:01)
04. Hasso Akotey - Amidine (6:15)
05. Lakal Kaney - Soul Tamashek (6:07)
06. DJ Mopao - Peguele (5:04)
07. Koudede - Souvernir Nam Adjosa (4:00)
08. Pheno S. - Wahidjo (4:35)
09. Iba one - All (Remix) (5:05)
10. Cheba Wassila - Hwa Heda (4:00)
'Music From Saharan Cellphones' serves as both a glimpse into the rich contemporary culture of the Trans-Sahara and a bunch of music you've likely never encountered before, it comprises nine tracks transferred via bluetooth from the mobile phones of residents in Kidal, Northern Mali at the beginning of 2010.
Across Western Africa everyone loves playing music thru their phone's loudspeaker - with popular tracks simply spread via bluetooth from person to person, phone to phone, creating a profuse and uncontainable sonic landscape as diverse and transient as the sand ocean "port-towns" themselves. Kidal is one of these metaphorical docks, a major hub in the Saharan network, linking North Africa with Sub Saharan regions and further beyond, and it's also the locus of the record's compiler, Christopher Kirkley's attentions.
He collected these tracks at night, swapping mp3s from his own collection for everything from local Tuareg anthems to DIY, auto-tuned HipHop produced on cracked software. We reckon you'll be genuinely surprised and delighted at discoveries like Group Anmataff's melancholy, low-slung Algerian drum machine and guitar groove 'Tinariwen' or the intricate drum programming and microtonal keyboard flourishes of Negib Ould Ngainich's 'Guetna', but best of all has to be the emphatic emotions of Mdou Moctar's swaying autotune ballad 'Tahoultine' or Bayta Ag Bay's forlorn guitar on 'Aicha'.
While the irony of these tracks being transferred from mp3 to vinyl shouldn't be lost on you, it's nevertheless a marvellous, beautiful record which has already had The Guardian and The Wire singing its praises, if that makes any difference.
Wholeheartedly recommended!
Tracklist:
01. Group Anmataff - Tinariwen (6:17)
02. Yeli Fuzzo - Abandé (3:31)
03. Amanar - Alghafiat (6:38)
04. Negib Ould Ngainich - Guetna (1:15)
05. Papito feat. Iba One - Yereyira (4:48)
06. Mdou Moctar - Tahoultine (5:38)
07. Kaba Blon - Moribiyassa (3:41)
08. Joskar Et Flamzy - Faroter (5:27)
09. Bayta Ag Bay - Aicha (6:09)
Music from Saharan Cellphones, Vol. 2
Another glorious dispatch from the dusty cellphone hard-drives of the Sahel; ten songs traded among populations of a region stretching between Mauritania and Sudan along the verdant edge of the Sahara. As with the West, cellphones there are increasingly used more for their storage and portable speaker functions than tools of communication, perhaps even more so due to prohibitive costs and network inaccessibility. While living in one of Northern Mali's trans-saharan capitals in 2009-2010, Christopher Kirkley set about collecting stacks of tunes which were widely circulated between local phones, resulting in this 2nd volume of songs which may well be outdated to them by now but which form a fascinating temporal document for outsiders. A star of the 1st volume Mdou Moctar opens this volume with signature autotune, bump beat and steel strings on 'Anar', and you'll also find a cute version of 1st African reggae song, Alpha Blondy's 'Brigadier Sabari', plus hip hop from Niger's Lakal Kaney, DJ Mopao's bouncing Coupé Décalé and our highlights; the steppin' trance and R&B delivery of Iba One's 'All (Remix)' or a then-ten year old Cheba Wassila's Moroccan Raï hit 'Hwa Heda'. Another priceless selection of oddities from this intriguing imprint.
Tracklist:
01. Mdou Moctar - Anar (4:35)
02. Mouma Bob - Imidiwane (5:17)
03. Enfant Libya - Friday (1:01)
04. Hasso Akotey - Amidine (6:15)
05. Lakal Kaney - Soul Tamashek (6:07)
06. DJ Mopao - Peguele (5:04)
07. Koudede - Souvernir Nam Adjosa (4:00)
08. Pheno S. - Wahidjo (4:35)
09. Iba one - All (Remix) (5:05)
10. Cheba Wassila - Hwa Heda (4:00)
Blues | World | Folk | Electronic | FLAC / APE
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