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█ . │▓ Tinariwen - Imidiwan Companions █
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█ . │▓ ▄ Artist........: Tinariwen ▄ Supplier......: ETHNiC █
█ . │▓ ▄ Title.........: Imidiwan Companions ▄ Ripper........: ETHNiC █
█ . │▓ ▄ Rlz date......: 2009-10-17 ▄ Size .........: 79,5 MBb █
█ . │▓ ▄ Quality.......: VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo ▄ Playtime......: 62:43 min █
█ . │▓ ▄ Genre.........: Ethnic █
█ . │▓ ▄ Year..........: 2009 ▄ Source........: CDDA █
█ . │▓ ▄ Grabber.......: EAC ▄ Encoder.......: LAME █
█ . │▓ ▄ Label.........: AZ / Universal ▄ Cat.num...... : n/a █
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█ . │▓ 01 - Imidiwan Afrik Tendam (My F [03:32] █
█ . │▓ 02 - Lulla [03:50] █
█ . │▓ 03 - Tenhert (The Doe) [05:29] █
█ . │▓ 04 - Enseqi Ehad Didagh (I Lie D [05:41] █
█ . │▓ 05 - Tahult In (My Salutation) [04:10] █
█ . │▓ 06 - Tamudjeras Assis (Regret Is [04:52] █
█ . │▓ 07 - Intitlayaghen [04:49] █
█ . │▓ 08 - Imazaghen N Adagh (Toureg O [03:46] █
█ . │▓ 09 - Tenalle Chegret (The Long T [05:44] █
█ . │▓ 10 - Kel Tamashek (The Tamashek [03:17] █
█ . │▓ 11 - Assuf Ag Assuf (Assuf Son O [04:54] █
█ . │▓ 12 - Chabiba (Youth) [03:22] █
█ . │▓ 13 - Ere Tasfata Adounia (He Who [09:17] █
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█ . │▓ 62:43 Min █
█ . │▓ 79,5 Mb █
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█ . │▓ http://www.alapage.com/m/ps/mpid:MP-4332CM2119558#moid:MO-4332CM3557699 █
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█ . │▓ As inquisitive music fans seek out ever more interesting textures and █
█ . │▓ beats from around the world, it comes as no surprise to see an exotic █
█ . │▓ Touareg blues outfit from the deserts of Mali being championed by such █
█ . │▓ highbrow rock royalty as Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Robert Plant, Bono, Chris █
█ . │▓ Martin and TV On The Radio. However, when The Sun, The Mirror and dear old █
█ . │▓ Preston from The Ordinary Boys start enthusiastically raving about them, █
█ . │▓ you realise that the tipping point has arrived. Tinariwen have officially █
█ . │▓ become Rather Popular. █
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█ . │▓ And the Touareg/rock n roll love-in is fully reciprocated. Tinwariwen s █
█ . │▓ founding father and frontman, Ibrahim ôAbarayboneö Ag Alhabib, was always █
█ . │▓ as much a fan of Santana, Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin as he was of Touareg █
█ . │▓ folk melodies. His co-leader Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni grew up listening to █
█ . │▓ tapes by Willie Nelson, The Bee Gees and Boney M (ôin the desert, you █
█ . │▓ listen to whatever you can get your hands on,ö he explains), while younger █
█ . │▓ bandmembers are happy to race around the desert in 4x4s playing Mot÷rhead █
█ . │▓ and Metallica. █
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█ . │▓ TheyÆve been going, in various forms, since the early 1980s, releasing █
█ . │▓ their first album proper in 2001, but things have really taken off since █
█ . │▓ signing to the rock label Independiente in 2007. They ve since played at █
█ . │▓ Glastonbury, Coachella and Roskilde; theyÆve been joined on stage by █
█ . │▓ Robert Plant, Carlos Santana and Taj Mahal; late last year they played a █
█ . │▓ series of uneasy collaborations with English folktronica act Tunng in an █
█ . │▓ eccentrically programmed UK tour. █
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█ . │▓ Of course, it helped that the backstory û IbrahimÆs father was killed by █
█ . │▓ the Malian military for helping Touareg rebels, and Ibrahim and other █
█ . │▓ members later trained in a Libyan guerrilla camp, making music to mourn █
█ . │▓ their dead comrades û was sufficiently hardcore that it made Tupac Shakur █
█ . │▓ look like Little Lord Fauntleroy. In a culture obsessed with ôkeeping it █
█ . │▓ realö it added a wild man authenticity to their twisted, spartan take on █
█ . │▓ the blues. █
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█ . │▓ Although Tinariwen might have been less convincing had they come from █
█ . │▓ Ruislip, itÆs important not to let the remarkable biography overshadow the █
█ . │▓ music. A catÆs cradle of wiry funk guitar riffs played over ragged, █
█ . │▓ galloping hand drums, topped by growling, ululating vocals, it seemed to █
█ . │▓ reunite pre-war Delta Blues with its distant African cousins. There were █
█ . │▓ traces of MaliÆs hypnotic jeli griots and kora players; there were folk █
█ . │▓ melodies that came from the dislocated, lonesome, nomadic Touareg desert █
█ . │▓ culture from which the band emerged, but when added together it invoked █
█ . │▓ odd but curiously apposite comparisons: Can, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, █
█ . │▓ Black Sabbath. █
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█ . │▓ Their last album, 2007Æs Water Is Life album, produced in a Bamako studio █
█ . │▓ by Robert PlantÆs guitarist Justin Adams, was superficially raw but subtly █
█ . │▓ arranged. The traditional hand drums were multi-tracked and beefed up with █
█ . │▓ handclaps, while the guitars were occasionally treated with wah-wah █
█ . │▓ pedals, fuzzboxes and touches of studio technology. Imidiwan: Companions █
█ . │▓ strips away such modern accoutrements and sees engineer Jean-Paul Romann █
█ . │▓ recording them in situ in a series of remote Malian villages, his portable █
█ . │▓ studio powered by a chugging generator. Everything sounds deliciously █
█ . │▓ grubby and unpolished û the kora-style patterns on ôLullaö seem to tumble █
█ . │▓ out of the guitars in a gloriously haphazard manner; the jittery ôEnseqi █
█ . │▓ Ehad Didagh (Lying Down Tonight)ö, negotiates the wonderfully █
█ . │▓ disorientating time-signature of 9/16 with a ramshackle charm. █
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█ . │▓ Oddly, the more raw and lo-fi you record Tinariwen, the more the █
█ . │▓ cross-cultural connections start to jump out. ôTenhert (The Doe)ö is based █
█ . │▓ around a killer blues riff that recalls HowlinÆ WolfÆs ôSmokestack █
█ . │▓ Lightningö, all the time accompanied by half-spoken, arrhythmic rapping. █
█ . │▓ ôKel Tamashek (The Tamashek People)ö, based around a discordant acoustic █
█ . │▓ guitar drone, starts off like an Incredible String Band miniature before a █
█ . │▓ thumping bass drum figure recalls Animal Collective. █
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█ . │▓ Most of the songs are based around single-chord riffs, but added textures █
█ . │▓ come from the female back-up vocalists û singing, slightly chaotically, in █
█ . │▓ unison, like a Tuareg Bananarama, they add a gleefully poppy sheen to the █
█ . │▓ anthemic ôImidiwan Afrik Tendam (My Friends From All Over Africa)ö █
█ . │▓ or the lazy funk of ôTahult In (My Salvation)ö. █
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█ . │▓ The slow-burning waltz ôTamodjerazt Assis (Regret Is Like A Storm)ö is the █
█ . │▓ only track featuring Tuareg poet and occasional bandmember Japonais (ôhe █
█ . │▓ represents the true soul of Tinariwen,ö says Ibrahim, ôuncompromising and █
█ . │▓ untameable, which is why he is not very good on touràö). █
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█ . │▓ The album ends with a hidden track ôEre Tesfata Adouniaö û an Eno-esque █
█ . │▓ series of spooky, barely stroked guitar effects, feeding back through the █
█ . │▓ speakers, as haunting as a desert wind. It serves as a membrane linking █
█ . │▓ ancient Africa with 21st century electronica û the ghost in the machine of █
█ . │▓ rockÆnÆroll. █
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█ . │▓ * We looking for affils, rlzer and legit █
█ . │▓ * WANTED : Anyone Who Thinks They Can contribute in ETHNiC █
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█ . │▓ from Africa, West Indies, Europe etc... █
█ . │▓ * If you think you are one of those person, please contact us █
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█ . │▓ * Contact E-Mail : Find Us By Yourself. █
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█ . │▓ And everyone who love the wibe we share █
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