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 This song is an exhortation to the union of the Tuareg people and the fight for the conservation of our desert and our culture! Van bandleider/songschrijver/guitar-maestro Omara Moctar aka Bombino verschijnt eindelijk weer eens nieuw werk. Na zijn album “Deran” uit 2018 (waarmee hij de eerste Nigeriaanse muzikant met een Grammy-nominatie werd en als Best Global Album een A2IM Libera Award won!) tourde hij met zijn ‘Sahara rock’ (een opzwepende mix van folk, rock, blues, funk en world music) over de hele wereld en in 2020 werd “Live In Amsterdam” uitgebracht. Het nieuwe album “Sahel” werd opgenomen in Casablanca (Marokko) met producer David Wrench (bekend van zijn werk met o.a. David Byrne, Frank Ocean, The XX, Goldfrapp, Sampha en Caribou) en het is zijn ‘most personal, powerful and politically-minded work yet’. Hij komt met name op voor ‘zijn’ Tuareg bevolking, de diverse nomadische stammen verspreid over meerdere Noord-Afrikaanse landen, ook wel aangeduid als de Sahel-regio. Hij zingt in zijn Tamasheq taal; “Let’s protect our brothers wherever they are because we are the same!”.
After 5 years guitar luminary and Tuareg folk hero Omara “Bombino” Moctar will finally release his new album; “Sahel” takes its name from the vast Northern African region spanning East-West from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and is the highly anticipated follow-up to his 2018 album “Deran” which turned Bombino into the first-ever Grammy-nominated artist from Niger and winner of the Best Global Album trophy at the A2IM Libera Awards. The new album is a plea for unity and solidarity across the Sahel, delivered in his native Tamasheq language; “Let's defend our people because we are the same regardless of our geographical position”, he sings while shouting out the Tuareg people throughout the region. To bring “Sahel” to life, Bombino worked closely with Welsh producer David Wrench (David Byrne, Frank Ocean, Caribou, Goldfrapp, The XX, Sampha), decamping with his bandmates to a studio in Casablanca for ten days to lay down the album. “Sahel” is Bombino’s most personal, powerful and politically-minded work yet. It’s also his most sonically diverse, a quality he set out to achieve from the start, and one that is meant to directly mirror the complex tapestry of cultures and people that make up the Sahel itself. Bombino says: “The general plight of the Tuareg is always on my mind and while I’ve addressed it in my music all along, I wanted to give it special focus now”. The album preaches patience even as the music itself urges you to stand up and move, and deals with personal issues as the ache of lost love and follies of youth; “It’s important to reflect the personal themes, to connect with people on a personal level, giving them stories and themes they can relate to”, Bombino says, adding that the extra time he spent at home during the pandemic, being with his children, helped to clarify his purpose while creating the new songs; “Everything I do is in service to my family, to better their situation”. “Sahel” contains some of Bombino’s most incisive commentaries to date, lamenting the divisions amid the Tuareg people, the risks of exile and an even greater existential threat, the loss of Tuareg culture. “Even though geographically the Sahara desert is our home, so many of the Tuareg people are denied or deprived of certain basic necessities throughout the region”, he says. “This has been motivating me a lot, the types of songs I sing and why. I want to get people thinking about the Tuareg, to represent those people who haven’t been represented. They really need a voice”. Opmerkingen zijn gesloten.
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