Saturday, January 31, 2009

Group Inerane --- Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger)



Lately i have been really into music from Africa. I came across Group Inerane last week and was pleasantly surprised. His music is definitely psychedelic but at the same time sounds so worldly. Threaded within the music you can hear beautifull african chants . i highly reccomend it :)

"Group Inerane is the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert and inspired by the rebel musicians that started this music as a political weapon used to communicate from the Libyan Refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s. Spearheaded by the enigmatic guitar hero Bibi Ahmed, Group Inerane has been together for several years and carries the rich tradition of Tamachek guitar songs for another generation. These ten tracks are a combination of amplified roots rock, blues, and folk in the local Tuareg styles at times entering into full-on electric guitar psychedelia. This music is performed with two electric guitars, a drum kit and a chorus of vocalists. The recordings were captured live in the city of Agadez in the Republic of Niger."

DL it here-- Mew

LISTEN HERE

Kuni Majagani - Group Inerane

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