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Track Listings
| 1. Tirera 4'47 |
| 2. Awa adounia 4'42 |
| 3. Aïma Ymaïma 3'46 |
| 4. Imgharen win ibda 4'16 |
| 5. Idja a seman 6'09 |
| 6. Imad halan 3'31 |
| 7. Kel Tamasheq 4'36 |
| 8. Imidiwan sajdate ahi 4'19 |
| 9. Allah fal manin 3'57 |
| 10. Ehad wad as idja 4'22 |
| 11. Taddaza 3'42 |
| 12. Bas tela takaraket 4'10 |
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Founded in the wake of Tinariwen's success, Terakaft have inevitably operated under the shadow of their elder Saharan cousins. Kel Tamasheq, their fourth album, brings a more distinctive identity to their desert blues. The serpentine guitar riffs, insistent handclaps, massed chants and rolling grooves remain intact, but their sound is less cluttered (and often less forlorn) than Tinariwen's. Producer Justin Adams brings subtle sonic expertise to tracks such as the shimmering Awa Adounia and friends from French group Lo'Jo add female voices and violin elsewhere. Completed before the conflict in north Mali, numbers such as Tirera and Imad Halan starkly evoke the terror of war. FOUR STARS --The Observer
Highly Recommnded. FOUR STARS --Songlines
Featuring the usual cyclical guitar swirls, call and response vocal chants and urgent handclap rhythms, Kel Tamasheq (The People Who Speak Tamashek; ie, the Touareg) is as infectiously engaging as you'd expect from an offshoot of the Tinariwen taproot. But while the music retains familiar desert-blues stylings, the lyrics reflect the traumatic disruption in the rapidly-changing world of the Touareg, with criticism of the Ansar Dine fundamentalist invaders in Imad Halan, and several reflections on the turmoil of war, most poetically in Taddaza. FOUR STARS --The Independent
Highly Recommnded. FOUR STARS --Songlines
Featuring the usual cyclical guitar swirls, call and response vocal chants and urgent handclap rhythms, Kel Tamasheq (The People Who Speak Tamashek; ie, the Touareg) is as infectiously engaging as you'd expect from an offshoot of the Tinariwen taproot. But while the music retains familiar desert-blues stylings, the lyrics reflect the traumatic disruption in the rapidly-changing world of the Touareg, with criticism of the Ansar Dine fundamentalist invaders in Imad Halan, and several reflections on the turmoil of war, most poetically in Taddaza. FOUR STARS --The Independent
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wonderful desert blues
5 Jan 2013
By Paul A. Mckenzie
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Great recording of emotional desert blues from the North African Desert... Superb guitar work and soulful vocals, held with sharp production by Justin Adams
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