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| BLACK FEELING TOUBI | LIBEREZ AFRICA | MAI1072 | TC | £ 0.00 |  |
Composer and musician Diassibo Tchiombiano better known as Dias is the man behind the group Black Feeling. From the age of ten he played the trumpet like his father who was in a colonial army band. Elhadj Taya, the famous Niger songwriter told him to write songs and he did, mixing the traditional Gourmantche music with reggae rhythms. His meeting in 1983 with Jimmy Cliff and Burning Spear in Burkina Faso and his second meeting with Alpha Blondy breathed new notes into Dias' compositions, he inserted traditional instruments, the Molo (a type of 3 stringed Lute) and the Kuntigui (a type of 1 string Lute) into his compositions by creating a symbiosis between traditional Gourmantche music and reggae rhythms. In 1988, he recorded this his first album Toubi. He recorded his next album The Law of the Jungle in Niamey before moving to Paris for his third album - Sheitan. His fourth album called Salima is inspired by Gourmantche and was recorded at the CFPM of Niamey in 2001. In 2024 he is now credited with a total of nine albums and has also built a name for himself as an artist with his own gallery called Taweydo. I couldn't find any mention of this cassette on the web anywhere. A Super Rare item.
 ON CD-R IN MY COLLECTION
| 1. LIBEREZ AFRICA
2. SATAN ARRIVE
3. ZALLEY
4. TOUBI
5. SI HEIN
6. SATAN ARRIVE |
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| LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD | AT PIONEER WORKS | SS-063 PW-005 | CD | £ 15.00 | |
An absolutely stunning album of Tuareg folk music. Recorded live in Autumn 2019 at the Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. Two sold-out shows of mesmeric singing and rhythmic music had the audience absolutely hooked. To be there was to be carried away 5000 miles to a small village called Illighadad under a star spangled night sky in the countryside of Niger. This can also happen to you, just have a listen to their hypnotic beat and georgeous vocals and you'll be there too.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. SURBAJO
2. EGHASS MALAN
3. TELILIT
4. CHAKALAN
5. INSSEGH INSSEGH
6. IRRIGANAN |
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| LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD | EGHASS MALAN | SS-044 | CD | £ 20.00 | |
Eghass Malan is Les Filles de Illighadad's first studio album. This amazing female led group hailing from the village of the same name bring you their new genre of Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk. Versed in tradition, Fatou Seidi Ghali and her band have created contemporary studio versions that are unlike anything ever before recorded, transporting rural nomadic song into the 21st century. The sound that defines rural Niger is a music known as tende which gets its name from a drum that is built from a goat skin stretched across a mortar and pestle. Recorded while on their first European tour the album is full of hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythms, and polyphonic resonant vocals which combine to create an organic sound that is timeless and ancient, bridging ancient tradition and modern worlds. Released in 2017. Have a listen and you will be hooked.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. EGHASS MALAN
2. INSSEGH INSSEGH
3. IMIGRADAN
4. JORI
5. TIHILELE
6. ABADRARASS
7. TELILLITE |
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| LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD | LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD | SS-033 | CD | £ 20.00 | |
Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist is one of the only Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. While her role is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction. The forgotten inspiration of Tuareg guitar, they are reclaiming its importance in the genre and reclaiming the music of tende. These sublime recordings from rural Niger show two very different sides of Tuareg music - dreamy ishumar acoustic guitar sessions, and the hypnotic polyphonic tende that inspires it. Guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali and vocalist Alamnou Akrouni lead the troupe which is named after their village. Recorded in the open air studio of the desert and released in 2016
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. ACHABIBA
2. ERILEGH IFLASSAKH
3. ELISS WAN ANAS
4. DOUBAN
5. TELILIT
6. TARHA
7. TENDE |
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| MAMAR KASSEY | ALATOUMI | 470003 | CD | £ 12.00 | |
One of the finest world music albums of 2000 was Mamar Kassey's Denke Denke and this is the sublime new album from the nine piece band from Niger. Resolutely contemporary in style and sound yet imbued with the centuries of Peul tradition, they are ambassadors for their country and their continent and they provide us with some of the most stimulating and effervescent sounds from the dynamic world of African music. Loved track 2 where the one string lute called here a godje makes its first appearance. A lovely sound I first heard from the similar styled Senegalese instrument called a riti. Listen out for chorus girls Ramatou Alhassane Dante and Fatouma Amadou who pop up with some lovely vocals every minute or two. A TOP SELLING ALBUM.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. FOULBE GARI
2. MAIDA ET TOURE
3. SORE
4. HAMSATOU LOBBO
5. RAFO WODA
6. ALATOUMI
7. DOMMO
8. ZAMANI
9. WOUIBE
10. YETI-YETA
11. ALZOUMA |
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| MAMAR KASSEY | DENKE-DENKE | 332006 | CD | £ 12.00 | |
Just one amazing CD. Frantic ngonis, driving electric guitars, bass, wild fulani, lots of percussion, male lead and female chorus all leave you completely breathless. The lead flute player has assembled a staggering group to fulfil his vision of a contemporary Niger roots band to take on the world. (Froots Oct 2000) Released back in 1999 the band is led by singer and flautist Yacouba Moumouni. Their music ranges from traditional Zarma-Songhai, Hausa and Fula rhythms played on instruments such as the molo (a 3 stringed lute) and modern instruments such as the electric bass.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. COMPOULE
2. SOUKABE LEIDI
3. DENKE-DENKE
4. COMPOLIDJO
5. LELLI YORO
6. BOUKAY
7. FOULBE
8. MINANTA HADORE
9. YACOUBA
10. DOOBEL
11. MAYDE EGONGA
12. MOSSI GAYDOU
13. AYERIYE NANAYE |
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| MDOU MOCTAR | FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE | OLE2031CD | CD | £ 17.00 | |
The Funeral For Justice album was released in 2024 and is the latest album by Mdou Moctar. It was recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe. It follows the release in 2021 of Afrique Victime and captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down.
My favourite track is the superb Oh France which just blew me away totally.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE
2. IMOUHAR
3. TAKOBA
4. SOUSOUME TAMACHEQ
5. IMAJIGHEN
6. TCHINTA
7. DJALLO #1
8. OH FRANCE
9. MODERN SLAVES |
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| MDOU MOCTAR | TEARS OF INJUSTICE | OLE2091CD | CD | £ 20.00 | |
The group were on tour in the U.S.A. when they were stranded by a coup back home in Niger. Two days after their tour finished in New York, the quartet began recording Tears of Injustice at Brooklyn’s Bunker Studio with engineer Seth Manchester.The album is the acoustic version of Funeral For Justice. If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically adored breakout, a meditative mirror image to the blistering original.
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED. | 1. FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE
2. IMOUHAR
3. TAKOBA
4. SOUSOUME TAMACHEQ
5. IMAJIGHEN
6. TCHINTA
7. OH FRANCE
8. MODERN SLAVES |
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| MOUSSA POUSSI | TORO | SYL83131 | TC | £ 10.00 | |
A smashing album released back in 1992 from the velvet voiced Moussa with Boncana Maiga giving it the Paris treatment. Fast paced and very different to the tape I got last year by Saadou which was quite traditional. Recorded at Studio JBZ in Abidjan with Wurri Moctar on keyboards, Abdoulay and Boko Didier on guitars and top Ivorien singer Antoinette Konan in the chorus. (F.T.Index: Gao Izo, Toro, Nabo Nabo, Weimo, Gossi) [9T/38M]
BRAND NEW AND STILL SEALED.
ON CD-R IN MY COLLECTION
| 1. TORO
2. GAO IZO
3. NABO NABO
4. CRISE DU GOLFE
5. GOSSI
6. WEIMO
7. GONDI YARO
8. GAZERA |
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| SAADOU | BORI | 83127 | TC | £ 15.00 | |
Saadou is a superstar in his own country with a number of more traditional sounding albums to his credit. Most of the line-up is unknown but singer Antoinette Konan (See Ivory Coast) is on chorus with Boko Didier on bass guitar, Manu Yodan on sax and Ali Maliki on lead guitar. Released in 1991 the album was recorded at Studio JBZ in Abidjan by Boncana Maiga and Ali Maliki, there being no studios in Niger. The music (having nothing from Niger to compare it with) comes across as a slightly funky Malian sound which is similar to early Zani Diabate mixed with Maiga's Paris fussion style. Saadou's crisply delivered vocals are perfectly matched to Ali's lovely guitar playing as the track Badossa will show. A wonderful album.
CONDITION AS NEW BUT NOT SEALED. Last one available.
ON CD-R IN MY COLLECTION
| 1. DANGO
2. YALLEROU
3. BADOSSA
4. BOUDJE
5. HADIZA
6. BORI
7. SOYEYA
8. MAIDAWA |
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| SAADOU BORI AND MOUSSA POUSSY | NIAMEY TWICE | STCD1057 | CD | £ 10.00 | |
A compilation CD released by Sterns in 1993 taken from the two cassettes Bori and Toro. Missing from Bori are the tracks Badossa and Maidawa and from Toro the tracks Crise Du Golfe and Gondi Yaro. Have a read of the write-ups for the cassettes and you will see just how good this album is.
CONDITION AS NEW BUT NOT SEALED
ON CD-R IN MY COLLECTION
| 1. TORO
2. NABO NABO
3. WEINO
4. GOSSI
5. GAWEIZO
6. GAZERA
7. DANGO
8. YALLEROU
9. BORI
10. BOUDJE
11. HADIZA
12. SOYEYA |
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