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Music Of Western Sahara
The Western Sahara has an established music tradition. Many of the well-known from the country musicians have settled in Dakar, where they mingled further with musicians from West Africa. Sahrawi music shares much in common with neighbouring musical traditions such as those of Mauritania and southern Morocco, yet retain aspects of pre-colonial heritage. The Tbal is the basic instrument of percussion, though the traditional string instrument called Tidinit, has largely been replaced by electric guitar. The first Sahrawi music LP, titled ''Polisario vencerá'', was recorded live in Barcelona, in 1982 by the band Shahid El Uali. Some performers are tribespeople who have lived a nomadic existence, which is true of Mariem Hassan. From 1998, Nubenegra (Spanish music label) marketed several Sahrawi music CDs in the United States and Germany, with a first release of a three-disc box set from 1998 titled '' Sahrauis: The Music of the Western Sahara'' (catalogue number INT 32552). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziza Brahim And Gulili Mankoo (band) - WOMEX 15, Budapest (4)
Aziza or Azizah may refer to: __NOTOC__ Given name Aziza * Aziza Abdel-Halim, chairwoman of the Muslim Women's National Network Australia * Aziza Brahim (born 1976), Sahrawi singer * Aziza Jafarzadeh (1921–2003), Azerbaijani writer * Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (born 1969), Azerbaijani musician * Azize Tanrıkulu (born 1986), Turkish martial artist * Aziza Abdelfattah (born 1990), Egyptian synchronized swimmer * Aziza Sleyum Ally, Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania * Aziza Ali, Singaporean former chef, food consultant, businessperson, artist, jeweller, and author * Aziza Hussein, Paralympian athlete from Egypt * Aziza Sbaity (born 1991), Lebanese sprinter Azizah * Azizah Y. al-Hibri, American philosopher and academic * Azizah Mohd Dun (born 1960), Sabah's State Minister for Community Development and Consumer Affairs * Azizah Abd Allah Abu Lahum (born 1945), Yemeni novelist and writer * Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah (born 1960), current Queen Consort of Malaysia * Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandtracks
''Sandtracks'' is the 2007 debut album of the Sahrawi people, Sahrawi band Tiris (band), Tiris, published by Sandblast Arts on November 7. A special digital edition was released on October 5 through Believe Digital. The album was re-released in 2011. The Africa report, 19 December 2012 Track listing ;Digital edition bonus trackReferences External links ''Sandtracks'' review - Songlines magazine 2007 debut albums Tiris (band) albums Reggae albums Jazz albums by Sahrawi artists Folk albums by Sahr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiris (band)
Tiris is a band formed by Sahrawi people, Sahrawi refugees at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. Their lyrics are about love, loss, and their long struggle and aspirations for independence in their homeland of Western Sahara. Their name honours of a southern zone of their country, known traditionally for being a land of holy men, poets and musicians. The 9-member group made their first international major performance at the Festival au Désert, in Essakane, Mali in January 2006. The festival's director Manny Ansar defined them as "''One of the best performances this year-absolutely wonderful!! I am delighted Tiris were able to participate!''". Programmed for the opening night, they had to perform again on the last night by popular demand. In 2007, Tiris released their first album, entitled "Sandtracks", being the first release of British people, British "Sandblast Arts" label, and touring England with the "Sandblast Tour", with venues in South Bank, Brighton Dome or th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nar (album)
Najm Allal ( ar, الناجم علال, born 1966) is a singer, guitarist and writer of lyrics in Spanish from Western Sahara. Biography Life He was born in a nomadic family at the ''Ued'' Hawa, near Smara (Western Sahara) in 1966. All his brothers and sisters do poetry, and his brother Mohamed Lamin and Najm were musicians. His father worked in a Spanish company who constructed a road in the zone. In 1975, he fled with all his family to Tifariti, then Mahbes and finally Tindouf. The next year he started school in the Sahrawi refugee camps. He takes secondary education in Algerian high schools. When he finished his studies, he had to do military service, where he learned the accordion and acoustic guitar. He subsequently joined the SPLA in 1986, as part of the Sahrawi military band. In 1990 he was intended to the frontline, where he composed his first hit and one of his most known songs "''Viva el POLISARIO''" ("''Long live the POLISARIO''"), where he describes the conquest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shouka (album)
''Shouka'' is the second album of Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan. It was recorded again at Axis studios, in Madrid, and produced by Manuel Domínguez, who is also the boss of the label Nubenegra. The album reached Number 1 on the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) in March 2010. "Shouka", the central song that titles the album, is a new experience in the Sahrawi music, as it is structured as a cantata. Taking the verses of Sahrawi poet Lamine Allal, Hassan developed a nine paragraph critical response to the 1976 speech of then Spanish opposition leader and later president of Spain Felipe González at the Sahrawi refugee camps (he compromised Spanish Socialist Workers' Party support to the Sahrawi people until "the final victory"), by using all scales and rhythms of the Haul. In this work, Mariem's group is completed with Lamgaifri Brahim (lead guitar) and Vadiya Mint El Hanevi ( tbal, choruses and dances). Several other musicians contributed to the album, as Senegalese Malick Diaw (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deseos (Mariem Hassan Album)
''Deseos'' (meaning ''desires'' or ''wishes'') is the 2005 debut solo album of the Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan. The album was recorded at Axis estudios in Madrid, and produced by guitarist Baba Salama, who died of leukemia one week before the release of the album. With the use of two electric guitars (played by Baba Salama and Boika Hassan, Mariem's brother) and two (played by Fatta Sadaf and Leila), the album had been hailed as a fresh actualization of the traditional Sahrawi Haul traditional music. The song "La Tumchu anni" is one of the highlights, a picturesque desert blues. It also contains one of Mariem's most known songs, "La Intifada", about the 2005 Sahrawi Independence Intifada. "El Chouhada" is dedicated to her three dead brothers, who were killed fighting during the Western Sahara War, while in "Mutamaniyat" she asks God for the healing of her breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariem Hassan Con Leyoad
Mariem Hassan con Leyoad is a 2002 collective album by Mariem Hassan Mariem Hassan ( ar, مريم حسان; May 1958 – 22 August 2015) was a Sahrawi singer and lyricist from Western Sahara. She usually sang in Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect spoken mostly in Western Sahara and Mauritania, and occasionally ... and the Sahrawi group Leyoad. Track listing References 2002 debut albums Mariem Hassan albums 2002 collaborative albums Arabic-language albums {{world-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starry Nights In Western Sahara
''Starry Nights in Western Sahara'' is an album compiled by filmmaker Danielle Smith, in the process of making one of her documentaries on Western Sahara. ''Starry Nights'', published by North-American label Rounder Records, is the second compilation of Saharawi music released in the United States, after '' Sahrauis: The Music of the Western Sahara''. The majority of the songs are sung by Umm Mekiya, a woman notorious for her voice. Songs range from traditional love songs to contemporary songs of political protest, accompanied with rhythmic clapping, lutes and tidinit Xalam (in Serer, or khalam in Wolof) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from West Africa with 1-5 strings. The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and .... Track listing References 2003 compilation albums Folk albums by Sahrawi artists Rounder Records compilation albums Folk compilation albums World music co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists such as the Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginnings Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at Tufts University in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziza Brahim
Aziza Brahim ( ar, عزيزة ابراهيم, born June 9, 1976) is a Sahrawi singer and actress. Biography Life She was born in 1976 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, in the Tindouf region of Algeria where her mother had settled in late 1975, fleeing from the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Her father remained in El Aaiun where he later died. Due to the Western Sahara War, Aziza never met him. Growing up in the severe conditions of the desert camps, Aziza discovered music as both a source of entertainment and a natural way to express and communicate her personal emotions and thoughts of resistance. At the age of 11, she received a scholarship to study in Cuba, like many Sahrawi students at the time. She wanted to study music, but was rejected. She left school and returned to the refugee camps in 1995, pursuing her musical career. Since 2000 she has lived in Spain, first in León and later in Barcelona. She is married and she has a daughter. Her grandmother is the renowne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nayim Alal
Mohamed Alí Amar (born 5 November 1966), known as Nayim, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He scored a last-minute goal for Real Zaragoza in the 1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final against Arsenal, with a 40-yard lob in the final minute of extra time. Over eight seasons in La Liga, he appeared in 130 matches and scored five goals. Having started his professional career with Barcelona, Nayim also represented Tottenham for five years. Club career Barcelona and Tottenham At the age of 12, Nayim left his hometown of Ceuta and joined FC Barcelona's youth academy La Masia. He broke into the first team under Terry Venables, but had very few opportunities due to 18 months of injuries. The same manager took him to Tottenham Hotspur in November 1988 originally on loan, making him the first Spaniard to play in English football since the Basque child refugee Emilio Aldecoa in 1947. Having initially spent several weeks waiting for a work permit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
