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<p>Mdou Moctar – Wiwasharnine</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-wiwasharnine/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-wiwasharnine/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-</span><span class="invisible">wiwasharnine/</span></a></p><p>“Wiwasharnine” is from Mdou Moctar’s full length album “Ilana: The Creator” in 2019.</p><p>Born in a nomad camp in Niger and now a leading figure of desert rock, Mdou Moctar stands out as the most innovative artist in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar have pushed him to the forefront of […]</p><p><a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a></p>

<p>Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-</span><span class="invisible">africa-78-rpm/</span></a></p><p>“Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM” is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks, released in 2011, taken from rare 78 RPM recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD.</p><p>Many African countries appear in this compilation, edited by Jonathan Ward: [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/algeria/" rel="tag">#Algeria</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/egypt/" rel="tag">#Egypt</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/morocco/" rel="tag">#Morocco</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/somalia/" rel="tag">#Somalia</a> <a href="/tags/tunisia/" rel="tag">#Tunisia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Desert Blues with Les Filles de Illighadad</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/desert-blues-filles-illighadad/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/desert-blues-filles-illighadad/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/desert-blues</span><span class="invisible">-filles-illighadad/</span></a></p><p>Listen to some Desert Blues by “Les Filles de Illighadad” live.</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a></p>

<p>Fati Niger – Girma Girma</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/fati-niger-girma-girma/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/fati-niger-girma-girma/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/fati-niger-g</span><span class="invisible">irma-girma/</span></a></p><p>Binta Labaran (professionally known as Fati Niger) is a Nigerien singer and actress, and earned the title of “Princess of Hausa music.”</p><p>So far, she has produced 4 albums and over 500 songs and also appeared in various Hausa Kannywood movies.</p><p><a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a></p>

<p>Bombino – Inar</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-inar/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-inar/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-inar</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>Studio recording of the song “Inar” (If You Know the Degree of My Love For You) from the album “Azel” in 2016.</p><p>Bombino delivers an accessible sound that will appeal to fans of blues, indie rock, jam bands, world music and more…</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tamasheq/" rel="tag">#Tamasheq</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a> <a href="/tags/global/" rel="tag">#Global</a></p>

<p>Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-funeral-justice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-funeral-justice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-</span><span class="invisible">funeral-justice/</span></a></p><p>Nigerien Rock band Mdou Moctar released an album in May 2024, “Funeral for Justice”, with eponym single.</p><p>Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2021 breakout ‘Afrique Victime,’ it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos […]</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/rock/" rel="tag">#Rock</a></p>

<p>Hama – Houmeissa</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hama-houmeissa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hama-houmeissa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hama-houmeis</span><span class="invisible">sa/</span></a></p><p>Nigerien composer Hama presents an album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all re-imagined into pieces seemingly lifted from a Saharan 1980s sci-fi soundtrack or score to a Tuareg video game. With a deep love and […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/electro/" rel="tag">#Electro</a></p>

<p>Music from Saharan Cellphones</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/music-sahara</span><span class="invisible">n-cellphones/</span></a></p><p>Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/morocco/" rel="tag">#Morocco</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/rock/" rel="tag">#Rock</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a> <a href="/tags/global/" rel="tag">#Global</a></p>

<p>Bombino – Deran Deran Alkeir</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-deran-deran-alkeir/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-deran-deran-alkeir/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-dera</span><span class="invisible">n-deran-alkeir/</span></a></p><p>Bombino (Omara “Bombino” Moctar) is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. His music frequently addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns and is sung in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language.</p><p>Deran is Bombino’s follow up record to 2016’s Azel. The album was recorded in Casablanca, Morocco and released in 2018. “It was almost [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tamasheq/" rel="tag">#Tamasheq</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a></p>

<p>Mdou Moctar – Ibitlan</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-ibitlan/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-ibitlan/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-</span><span class="invisible">ibitlan/</span></a></p><p>“Ibitlan” comes from volume 2 of the Niger EP series by Mdou Moctar. It was first released in 2014 as part of “Anar”, a special vinyl edition, from earlier recordings. Spaced out autotune from Niger. Tuareg guitar accompanied with loping drum machines and vocal plug ins, interpreted via the filter of Bollywood influenced Hausa pop. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/rock/" rel="tag">#Rock</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a> <a href="/tags/global/" rel="tag">#Global</a></p>

<p>Super11 – raw Desert Blues</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-r</span><span class="invisible">aw-desert-blues/</span></a></p><p>If you like pure raw desert blues, this video is for you, as it’s a perfect origin for so many contemporary artists from the Sahel region.</p><p>“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: […]</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/ngoni/" rel="tag">#Ngoni</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a></p>

<p>Bombino – Nomad (EPK)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/first-listen-bombino-nomad/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/first-listen-bombino-nomad/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/first-listen</span><span class="invisible">-bombino-nomad/</span></a></p><p>“Nomad”, released by Omara “Bombino” Moctar in 2013, follows his first recorded album “Agadez” in 2011.</p><p>Omara “Bombino” Moctar, a young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter, was raised during an era of armed struggles for independence and violent suppression by government forces. His electrifying jams capture the spirit of resistance and rebellion [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/epk/" rel="tag">#EPK</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tamasheq/" rel="tag">#Tamasheq</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a></p>

<p>Ishumar – Toumast</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toumast-2007/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toumast-2007/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toum</span><span class="invisible">ast-2007/</span></a></p><p>Ishumar is the first album by band Toumast, released in October 2006.<br>Moussa Ag Keyna, a former Tuareg fighter who took refuge in France, formed the group Toumast in the spirit of Tinariwen in the mid-1990s. He was joined by the singer Aminatou Goumar.</p><p>Lead singer Moussa Ag Keyna who, together with Aminatou [Goumar] and French […]</p><p><a href="/tags/desertblues/" rel="tag">#DesertBlues</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/tuareg/" rel="tag">#Tuareg</a> <a href="/tags/global/" rel="tag">#Global</a></p>