Audio: Agali Ag Amoumine 'Takamba'
<p>Raw goodies for the New Year compliments of <strong>Chris Kirkley</strong>'s field work, and this time it's in the form of stream of consciousness field recordings of Timbouctou vocalist and Tehardent player <strong>Agali "Ali" Ag Amoumine</strong> and calabsh player <strong>Alhassane Maïga</strong>. The release, "Takamba" is named after a place in Mali, and is also "a slow ghostly dance, a distinctive staggered rhythm clapped on a calabash, and a gritty distorted terhardent." Sections of this recording feel pretty trance-like with it's endless lo-fi electric Tehardent (3 string lute) noodling which dominates the 40 plus minutes cassette release. Calabash rhythms and shout-outs to "New York" also line this anti-produced sound. Check out <a href="http://sahelsounds.com">Sahel Sounds</a> for more notes and videos.</p><p><div class="preroll-video"></div><ora-player></ora-player></p><p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="100" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=4140140812/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" width="400"><a href="http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/takamba">Takamba by Agali Ag Amoumine</a></iframe></p>
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