''Among Brothers'' is a

World In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

album released in 2003 by Algerian composer and singer-songwriter

Abderrahmane Abdelli Abderrahmane Abdelli (born April 2, 1958) is a Berber author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional North African music of his homeland with modern sounds. Biography Abdelli was born in Mechta Behalil, a hamlet in the ...

. The album was released by

Real World Records Real World Records is a British record label specializing in world music. It was founded in 1989 by English musician Peter Gabriel and original members of WOMAD. A majority of the works released on Real World Records feature music recorded at ...

Track listing

# "Amazine Introduction" – 1:34 # "Amazine (Moonlight)" – 6:01 # "Itij Introduction" – 1:14 # "Itij (The Sun)" – 6:46 # "Kif-kif (Either Way)" – 3:15 # "Asiram (Hope)" – 4:30 # "Svar (Patience)" – 4:09 # "Adhou Introduction" – 1:56 # "Adhou (The Wind)" – 1:44 # "Inas (The Message)" – 6:53 # "Tharguith (The Dream)" – 5:21 # "Ayen (Why?)" – 4:36 # "Ayema-yema (O My Mother)" – 6:43 # "Thamziw Introduction" – 3:06 # "Thamziw (My Youth)" – 3:04

Personnel

THE MUSICIANSInsert: ''Among Brothers'' Realworld Records, 2003 * Abdelli (Algeria) - lead vocal;

mandola The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola ...

*Thierry Van Roy (Belgium) -

e-bow The EBow, short for electronic bow or energy bow, is an electronic device used for playing string instruments, most often the electric guitar. It is manufactured by Heet Sound Products, of Los Angeles, California. It was invented by Greg Heet i ...

guitars; keyboards *Assedine Jazouli (Morocco) -

darbukka The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; arz, دربوكة / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-s ...

; bendir;

taarija A taarija (plural: ''ta'arij'') is a Moroccan membranophone ( drum), single skin and tube, played singly, unlike the tabla, which is a pair of drums, and is related to the darbouka. While the tube may be metal (e.g., silver), it is typically made ...

; bells; tabla; tar (percussion);

daf Daf ( fa, دف) also known as Dâyere and Riq is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia. It is also used in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbe ...

; karkabou *Abdelmagid 'Mgidou' Makrai Lamanti (Morocco) - violin; percussion *Said 'El Asfour' Mohammed Najib (Tunisia) - nay *Luis Leiva Alquinta (Chile) -

bombo Bombo may refer to: Music * ''Bombo'' (musical), a 1921 Broadway production starring Al Jolson * "Bombo" (song), by Norwegian singer Adelén *Bombo criollo or just bombo, a family of Latin American drums *Bombo legüero, an Argentine drum *An 18th ...

; cajon; bells;

Maraca A maraca (), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas (from Guaraní ), also known as tamaracas, were r ...

udu The udu is a plosive aerophone (in this case implosive) and an idiophone of the Igbo people, Igbo of Nigeria. In the Igbo language, ''ùdù'' means 'vessel'. Actually being a water jug with an additional hole, it was played by Igbo women for ce ...

; guiro;

reco-reco The reco-reco (also called the raspador, caracaxá or querequexé) is a scraper of African origin used as a percussion instrument in Brazilian music,ROCCA, Edgar Nunes "Bituca", ''Escola Brasileira de Música: Uma visão Brasileira no ensino da mú ...

;

triangle A triangle is a polygon with three Edge (geometry), edges and three Vertex (geometry), vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC. In Euclidean geometry, an ...

*Carlos Diaz (Argentina) - Spanish guitar *Lahcen Bourgha (Morocco) - ajouj; wooden karkabou In Cape Verde: *Ulysses Santos - lead acoustic guitar;

Portuguese guitar The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra ( pt, guitarra portuguesa, ) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six course (music), courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses wat ...

; cavaquino *Aurelio Santos - cavaquino *Bitori -

diatonic accordion A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the ...

*Totovares - acoustic guitar *Halder - ferrinio *Aderito - additional guitar In Azerbaijan: *Möhlet Müslümov - târ *Fahraddin Dadashov - kemantcha *Faïg Alibalayev -

garmon The garmon ( rus, гармо́нь, p=gɐˈrmonʲ, links=yes, from rus, гармо́ника, p=gɐˈrmonʲɪkə, r=garmonika, cognate of English ''harmonica''), commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wi ...

*Elshad Jabbarov - balaban;

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

; flute *Malahat Aliyeva - kanun *Farhad Rahimov - nagara; zarb *Oktaj - gosha nagara *Jawad Smaili - Iranian nay In Burkina Faso: The drum section of

Farafina Farafina is a music and dance group from Burkina Faso, established in 1978. The eight-member group is Burkina Faso's best known musical group, and one of Africa's most internationally prominent musical groups. History The group was founded ...

*Salif Koné - bara *Adolphe Kinda -

djembe A djembe or jembe ( ; from Maninka language, Malinke ''jembe'' , N'Ko script, N'Ko: ) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa. According to the Bambara people in Mali, the name of the djembe ...

*Bakhari Traoré - bara *Souleymane 'Mani' Sanou - doumdouba;

shekere The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) is a West African percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. The Shekere originated in a tribe in Nigeria called the Yoruba. The ins ...

References

External links

''Among Brothers'' on Abdelli's official site

''Among Brothers'' on RealWorldRecords.com
Abderrahmane Abdelli albums 2003 albums Among Brothers {{world-album-stub