So as I want to post something this weekend [every weekend!], I have to skip the promised vinyl [from Guinee, 1958!] and have to settle for something else.
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| Tamikrest 2011.Jul.03 at Metropolis Festival, Rotterdam [source:3voor12 VPRO] |
Happens that last night the BBC repeated a 2013 radio session by Tamikrest. Dived into my archive and found another, Dutch, radio session by them. Togther I'll present these sessions here for your earful enjoyment.
About Tamikrest
Tamikrest are a group of desert nomads from Mali, Niger and Algeria. They have been branded the "spiritual sons" of Malian super-group Tinariwen.Tamashek is the language of the Touareg, a nomadic people inhabiting the Saharan desert across various countries, including Niger, Algeria, Libya and Mali. The name Tamikrest is Tamashek for junction or connection or coalition. The seven members of Tamikrest, who originate from Mali, Niger and Algeria, came together to express their Touareg identity through Ishumar rock, the Touareg rebel music.
The band's leader and songwriter, 27-year-old [in 2010!] singer/guitarist Ousmane Ag Mossa explains: "When Touareg children arrive in the public Malian schools, they are soon confronted with an administration that refuses to see the realities our people suffer. Our hope is to have the world listen to our revolutionary songs, which reflect the harsh life conditions that our people endure."
Tamikrest's songs also praise the desert, a place that is fundamental for the Touareg.
source: 2010.May.28, Radio 3 World on 3 [when Tamikrest played it's 1st BBC Radio Session]
Listen to an album track from Tamikrest
TAMRIKEST-2011-13 - SESSIONS VPRO-BBC
2011.Jul.03 VPRO 3voor12 Session at Metropolis Festival
setlist: not given, and no time to work it out now [tot.16:59]
audio source: original video at above given link
2013.Oct.20 - BBC 6music Session - Cerys Matthews
setlist: Itous / Tisnant n'Chatma [tot.8:34]
audio source: rpt.2019.Oct.20, 6music Live Hour
bonus: Imanin Bas Zihoun [played on the same day at BBC ONE's Andrew Marr Show]
Related multi-media
- 2011.Jul.03: VPRO 3voor12 Session at Metropolis Festival - video at vpro.nl
- 2013.Jan.27: What may the future hold for Mali? - BBC ONE
with Andy Morgan, Ibrahim ag Youssouf and Bassekou Kouyate - 2013.Oct.20: Tamikrest live on the Andrew Marr Show - BBC ONE / UK only
- 2013.Nov.26: Report from the Sahel Festival in north of Senegal [incl.Tamikrest playing and interview] - video at bbc news
PS: the BBC has broadcasted more recordings of Tamikrest [2010.May.28 Radio 3 Session / 2011.Jun.27 Radio 2 Session / 2013.Mar.01, Radio 3 - World on 3 - Concerts]. Don't have any of those, if anybody has some of it and able to share, please be so kind to comment to this post.
Sometimes it seems that the machines refuse to work so that we give them attention, and take care of them, right?
ReplyDeleteShaking does not usually work, they need attention.
Reading the introduction I felt a lot of sadness, the cultural problems among the Tamashek in Mali of 2011, with their dark-skinned neighbors, were cultural residues of the past, sometimes uncomfortable for living together.
But in 2012, the Tamashek people of Mali were influenced by external elements, and confused their self-determination dream with war.
Apart from the lives that were lost, today in 2019 the Tamashek live confined, and probably without school for their children, currently none of the small villages in northern Mali have recovered their schools.
I really can't listen to this music.
Why can't you listen to the music, Ngoni?
DeleteIn early 2013 Tamikrest played together with Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba on the Sahara Soul tour. I posted recordings from their concert in Utrecht [NL] some years ago.
Also most Tamasheq became victims and refugees because of that what started in 2012; only a minority were blinded by the external lies and their own dreams of independence.
It will take a long time before everything will return back to fair circumstances for all people living in Mali.
Let's see, Mangue, don't misunderstand me, I'm not censoring the Tamashek People, I like their music and I respect their musicians, even some very politically engaged singers, like Tinariwen's solo singer were against how the revolt was perpetrated, even he was kidnapped for a while when he went to visit his family in Mali, because he lived outside.
ReplyDeleteListening to this music is like moving to the Sahel, and it leads me to think about the suffering of all those wonderful people from small northern villages, who have lost their schools, their health centers, their transport to the city, etc., waiting in the nothing, with no future but to increase the number of displaced people, the state abandoned them.
On the other hand, for example, living in Kidal, locked up with the inability to work, or trade legal goods, is also sad.
I know people from the Tombouctou region, they have been abandoned to their fate.
Listening to that music causes me pain.
Thanks. I have seen this band and Tinariwen many times and even if I don't understand tamashek whenever I hear Ibrahim from Tinariwen or Ousmane from Tamikrest I feel that assouf right away. The suffering is definitely there in their voices.
ReplyDeleteMy first Tamikrest show was a couple months before this 2011 VPRO session, here's the track names for that one.
- Aidjan Adaky/Tidite Tille/Arata N Tinariwen