Azel
by Bombino
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 April 2016
- Label: Partisan
- Country: Niger
- Length: 46:53
- Community rating: 3.62/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors in upstate New York, the Tuareg guitar maestro broadens his signature desert blues sound by introducing distinct reggae rhythms. The album is incredibly joyous and propulsive, pairing his dazzling, intricate electric guitar solos with bouncing basslines and passionate Tamasheq vocal melodies. It represents a remarkably infectious, accessible high point for the modern Tishoumaren genre.
Genres
Descriptors: Acoustic, rhythmic, desert, guitars, vocal, percussive, traditional
Tracklist
- Akhar Zaman (This Moment) (3:51)
- Iwaranagh (We Must) (4:59)
- Inar (If You Know the Degree of My Love for You) (3:46)
- Tamiditine Tarhanam (My Love, I Tell You) (4:03)
- Timtar (Memories) (4:53)
- Iyat Ninhay / Jaguar (A Great Desert I Saw) (6:07)
- Igmayagh Dum (My Lover) (5:45)
- Ashuhada (Martyrs of the First Rebellion) (3:24)
- Timidiwa (Friendship) (4:21)
- Naqqim Dagh Timshar (We Are Left in This Abandoned Place) (5:39)
Credits
- Bombino - primary artist
- Mama 'Mahassa' Walet Amoumene - backing vocals [female]
- Van Loon Abdoulahi (Koutana) - backing vocals [male], djembe
- Corey Wilhelm - djembe, drums [drum kit], calabash, congas, shaker, drums (drum set), shakers
- Robert Weston - lacquer cut by
- Omara "Bombino" Moctar - lead guitar, lead vocals, rhythm guitar, written-by, adapted by [traditional adaptations]
- Avi Salloway - rhythm guitar
- Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni - written-by, adapted by [traditional adaptations]