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Whistle Stopper - Aman Iman: Water is Life
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: World Village USA
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0713746806729
Label: World Village USA
Manufacturer: World Village USA
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: World Village USA
Release Date: 2007-03-20
Studio: World Village USA
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Summary: Found it from Arts Sound FM in Canberra
Comment: I listened to it on the radio so I logged on and downloaded some songs. How cool are they! First time I've gone to the trouble of logging on to Amazon. Think I'll download some more. Reminds me of being at WOMAD.
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Summary: Catchy funk rhythms and chants
Comment: I don't really consider it bluesy myself. It's the catchy funk rhythms and chants with crackling guitar interludes. Not all songs are winners, but overall about half will grab you and you'll instantly get an addiction for these saharan, tuareg groove merchants.
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Summary: I'm in love
Comment: Enthralling,exciting, like nothing I have heard before. Please come to the United States!
Carla
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Summary: Startlingly bluesy.
Comment: Having emerged from the southern Sahara in 2001 - where, as rebel fighters, they once carried guns as well as guitars - Tinariwen have become one of the most successful acts to come out of Africa in decades.
"Aman Iman" is their third album and by far their most accessible.
The key to its appeal is that, as well as the circular Touareg vocals, chanting and rhythms, there are bluesy guitar licks and an unruly energy that create sound like the raw elements of rock and roll.
This startlingly bluesy album reflects the sharper focus their sound has recently achieved. Guitars underpin everything, with solo voices rising out in defiance or exaltation: the opening homage to a freedom fighter killed in 1995 is marvellously eloquent, as are the appeals for peace and the hope for a future return to the homeland.
Here, then, is a record that will unite fans of Ali Farka Toure and Keith Richards - no mean feat.
With many of the tracks recorded in the open air at night in the desert, this is an album with a rugged, epic atmosphere all of its own.
Is this to be the band that punches through the glass ceiling that has kept world music out of the mainstream? "Yes!" shout its supporters. And since its "discovery" six years ago, this group of one-time Touareg guerrilla fighters has deservedly risen to the top of the world music charts.
The liner notes honour their subject-matter by not only giving the full lyrics both in translation and in the vernacular, but also making a stab at rendering them in the ancient Touareg alphabet. The sound is beautifully mastered.The mainstream should be so lucky.
Rokku Mi Rokka
Afriki
Stereo Spirit
Segu Blue
Savane
The Mande Variations
The Garifuna Women's Project
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Summary: NORTH AFRICA BLUES
Comment: A very special and unique recording of NORTH AFRICA BLUES blended with traditional sounds of the east by AMAN IMAN .What is presented here with their music is a movie in which the sound has replaced picture describing at its utmost the adventurous scenery of the nomadic life in NORTH AFRICA .just enjoy this interesting movie .
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When you hear this music clan -- group just doesn't seem to be the right designation for a band of nomad desert musicians/soldiers -- a listener can hear the calm of the desert night air and the serenity of the musicians who live there. The Taureg people truly seem to be of the land and never more so than here on the band's third album, Aman Iman. The loping percussion and the circular guitar lines conjure wide-open desert images evoked in the repetitive grooves. Some may grumble that the members are playing much as they did on the first and second albums, blending Arabic song structures, desert wails, and primordial blues guitar riffs, but for it to be any different would be akin to asking the people in Tinariwen to change who they are. Never have words been truer than those of the title, but this album also appends that sentiment, proving that music is life for the desert Taureg too. --Tad Hendrickson
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