Tuareg quintet Imarhan released their third studio album, Aboogi, in January 2022 on City Slang. The diversity, beauty, and struggles of life in Imarhan's home city of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria are reflected in the songs on Aboogi, the first album the band recorded on their native soil in a studio they built themselves. It features Sudanese singer Sulafa Elyas and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, plus Tinariwen's Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni and the poet Mohamed Ag Itlale (also known as Japonais) from the Tamanrasset artistic community. Following the exhilarating Temet (2018, City Slang), this new album is as serene and open as the desert it emerged from.
Imarhan's Aboogi Studio, named for the structures their nomadic forebears built when establishing settlements, is the first professional recording studio in their city, meant to serve the Saharan region's community of musicians, many who've never had access to high-end recording gear before. It seemed only natural to also call the resulting collection of songs Aboogi, a nod to the new collective space they had established, as well as the resilience of their culture and people. "Aboogi reflects the colors of Tamanrasset, what we experience in everyday life," says bandleader Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam. "We give space to the wind and the natural energies, to the sun and the sand. We want to express their colors through music." There is incredible warmth embedded in these steady, lilting rhythms and patiently strummed acoustic guitars, derived not just from the natural environment but from the community that surrounds them.
Imarhan's musical world has always been expansive, based in the traditional sounds of the Tuareg people but fiercely individualistic and embracing of the many styles they encounter. On Aboogi they emerge as a truly global group, united with their collaborators in a spirit of resistance and social change. This connection is sensed in today's "Achinkad" video, which shows the band playing music around a fire and dancers shuffling throughout a desert.
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Algeria's Imarhan are excited to announce their upcoming tour of the United States, the 5-piece band's first North American tour since opening for Kurt Vile in 2016. This spring finds Imarhan touring in support of their soon to be released new album Temet, out on City Slang on February 23rd. The dates will take them to both coasts and places in between, including shows in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and a performance at the 2018 Levitation Festival in Austin, TX. All upcoming US tour dates below.
In conjunction with their tour announcement Imarhan have released the entrancing takeaway video for "Mas-abok", from independent Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon's upcoming documentary on the band entitled Children of Tam. Moon followed the band for two weeks, documenting hours of music, pictures and conversations in their hometown of Tamanrasset and at neighboring mountain ranges, specifically Assekrem (Tamashek for "World's End"), a high plateau in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria. The result is an hour-long documentary film, which serves as a portrait of the band and their hometown Tamanrasset, for which they are becoming ambassadors.
Watch the Vincent Moon filmed video for "Mas-abok" via YouTube
Watch the Visions Particulières directed music video for "Ehad Wa Dagh" via YouTube
https://www.imarhan.com
https://www.facebook.com/imarhan1/
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Imarhan's Aboogi Studio, named for the structures their nomadic forebears built when establishing settlements, is the first professional recording studio in their city, meant to serve the Saharan region's community of musicians, many who've never had access to high-end recording gear before. It seemed only natural to also call the resulting collection of songs Aboogi, a nod to the new collective space they had established, as well as the resilience of their culture and people. "Aboogi reflects the colors of Tamanrasset, what we experience in everyday life," says bandleader Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam. "We give space to the wind and the natural energies, to the sun and the sand. We want to express their colors through music." There is incredible warmth embedded in these steady, lilting rhythms and patiently strummed acoustic guitars, derived not just from the natural environment but from the community that surrounds them.
Imarhan's musical world has always been expansive, based in the traditional sounds of the Tuareg people but fiercely individualistic and embracing of the many styles they encounter. On Aboogi they emerge as a truly global group, united with their collaborators in a spirit of resistance and social change. This connection is sensed in today's "Achinkad" video, which shows the band playing music around a fire and dancers shuffling throughout a desert.
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Algeria's Imarhan are excited to announce their upcoming tour of the United States, the 5-piece band's first North American tour since opening for Kurt Vile in 2016. This spring finds Imarhan touring in support of their soon to be released new album Temet, out on City Slang on February 23rd. The dates will take them to both coasts and places in between, including shows in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and a performance at the 2018 Levitation Festival in Austin, TX. All upcoming US tour dates below.
In conjunction with their tour announcement Imarhan have released the entrancing takeaway video for "Mas-abok", from independent Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon's upcoming documentary on the band entitled Children of Tam. Moon followed the band for two weeks, documenting hours of music, pictures and conversations in their hometown of Tamanrasset and at neighboring mountain ranges, specifically Assekrem (Tamashek for "World's End"), a high plateau in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria. The result is an hour-long documentary film, which serves as a portrait of the band and their hometown Tamanrasset, for which they are becoming ambassadors.
Watch the Vincent Moon filmed video for "Mas-abok" via YouTube
Watch the Visions Particulières directed music video for "Ehad Wa Dagh" via YouTube
https://www.imarhan.com
https://www.facebook.com/imarhan1/
Tuareg quintet Imarhan released their third studio album, Aboogi, in January 2022 on City Slang. The diversity, beauty, and struggles of life in Imarhan's home city of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria are reflected in the songs on Aboogi, the first album the band recorded on their native soil in a studio they built themselves. It features Sudanese singer Sulafa Elyas and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, plus Tinariwen's Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni and the poet Mohamed Ag Itlale (also known as Japonais) from the Tamanrasset artistic community. Following the exhilarating Temet (2018, City Slang), this new album is as serene and open as the desert it emerged from.
Imarhan's Aboogi Studio, named for the structures their nomadic forebears built when establishing settlements, is the first professional recording studio in their city, meant to serve the Saharan region's community of musicians, many who've never had access to high-end recording gear before. It seemed only natural to also call the resulting collection of songs Aboogi, a nod to the new collective space they had established, as well as the resilience of their culture and people. "Aboogi reflects the colors of Tamanrasset, what we experience in everyday life," says bandleader Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam. "We give space to the wind and the natural energies, to the sun and the sand. We want to express their colors through music." There is incredible warmth embedded in these steady, lilting rhythms and patiently strummed acoustic guitars, derived not just from the natural environment but from the community that surrounds them.
Imarhan's musical world has always been expansive, based in the traditional sounds of the Tuareg people but fiercely individualistic and embracing of the many styles they encounter. On Aboogi they emerge as a truly global group, united with their collaborators in a spirit of resistance and social change. This connection is sensed in today's "Achinkad" video, which shows the band playing music around a fire and dancers shuffling throughout a desert.
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Algeria's Imarhan are excited to announce their upcoming tour of the United States, the 5-piece band's first North American tour since opening for Kurt Vile in 2016. This spring finds Imarhan touring in support of their soon to be released new album Temet, out on City Slang on February 23rd. The dates will take them to both coasts and places in between, including shows in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and a performance at the 2018 Levitation Festival in Austin, TX. All upcoming US tour dates below.
In conjunction with their tour announcement Imarhan have released the entrancing takeaway video for "Mas-abok", from independent Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon's upcoming documentary on the band entitled Children of Tam. Moon followed the band for two weeks, documenting hours of music, pictures and conversations in their hometown of Tamanrasset and at neighboring mountain ranges, specifically Assekrem (Tamashek for "World's End"), a high plateau in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria. The result is an hour-long documentary film, which serves as a portrait of the band and their hometown Tamanrasset, for which they are becoming ambassadors.
Watch the Vincent Moon filmed video for "Mas-abok" via YouTube
Watch the Visions Particulières directed music video for "Ehad Wa Dagh" via YouTube
https://www.imarhan.com
https://www.facebook.com/imarhan1/
read more
Imarhan's Aboogi Studio, named for the structures their nomadic forebears built when establishing settlements, is the first professional recording studio in their city, meant to serve the Saharan region's community of musicians, many who've never had access to high-end recording gear before. It seemed only natural to also call the resulting collection of songs Aboogi, a nod to the new collective space they had established, as well as the resilience of their culture and people. "Aboogi reflects the colors of Tamanrasset, what we experience in everyday life," says bandleader Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam. "We give space to the wind and the natural energies, to the sun and the sand. We want to express their colors through music." There is incredible warmth embedded in these steady, lilting rhythms and patiently strummed acoustic guitars, derived not just from the natural environment but from the community that surrounds them.
Imarhan's musical world has always been expansive, based in the traditional sounds of the Tuareg people but fiercely individualistic and embracing of the many styles they encounter. On Aboogi they emerge as a truly global group, united with their collaborators in a spirit of resistance and social change. This connection is sensed in today's "Achinkad" video, which shows the band playing music around a fire and dancers shuffling throughout a desert.
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Algeria's Imarhan are excited to announce their upcoming tour of the United States, the 5-piece band's first North American tour since opening for Kurt Vile in 2016. This spring finds Imarhan touring in support of their soon to be released new album Temet, out on City Slang on February 23rd. The dates will take them to both coasts and places in between, including shows in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and a performance at the 2018 Levitation Festival in Austin, TX. All upcoming US tour dates below.
In conjunction with their tour announcement Imarhan have released the entrancing takeaway video for "Mas-abok", from independent Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon's upcoming documentary on the band entitled Children of Tam. Moon followed the band for two weeks, documenting hours of music, pictures and conversations in their hometown of Tamanrasset and at neighboring mountain ranges, specifically Assekrem (Tamashek for "World's End"), a high plateau in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria. The result is an hour-long documentary film, which serves as a portrait of the band and their hometown Tamanrasset, for which they are becoming ambassadors.
Watch the Vincent Moon filmed video for "Mas-abok" via YouTube
Watch the Visions Particulières directed music video for "Ehad Wa Dagh" via YouTube
https://www.imarhan.com
https://www.facebook.com/imarhan1/
show less
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