| Imarhan / Imarhan |
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| Album: | Imarhan | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Imarhan | Added: | May 2017 | |
| Label: | City Slang | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-05-10 | Pull Date: | 2017-07-12 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jun 25 | Jun 18 | Jun 11 | Jun 4 | May 28 | May 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 14, 2022: | At the Cafe Bohemian (rebroadcast from Jun 14, 2017) Tahabort | 4. | Jun 14, 2017: | At the Cafe Bohemian Tahabort | |
| 2. | Jun 21, 2017: | At the Cafe Bohemian Tahabort | 5. | Jun 08, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Imarhan | |
| 3. | Jun 15, 2017: | Road Trip Arodj N-Inizdjam | 6. | Jun 01, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Imarhan |
| Album Review |
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| Decca Reviewed 2017-05-02 | ||
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Imarhan (meaning “the ones I care about”) is an Algerian Taureg rock/blues band that formed in 2006. This is their first release. Related both musically and by blood to Tinariwen. (There are cousins in each group.) Great guitar work, great laid-back vocals (nicely raspy and good use of backing voices), so cool with its of funk, even a hit of surf at time. It’s all damn good. Great performances & energy. 1. Relaxed, head-nodding w/cool vocals. 2. Fast, fast w/great energy & hip North Africa vocals. Oh yeah! 3. Downtempo, rather spare blues, then picks up and relaxes again. 4. Bright & sharp guitar, mostly midtempo w/cool perc/vocals. 5. Driving mid/upbeat blues stomp. Tight arrangement. 6. Fast Afro-rock w/great guitar/percussion work. So good. 7. Lazy, mostly midtempo w/male vox/percussion accents. 8. Really delicious relaxed North African folksy blues. 9. Sharp, driving rock guitars nicely droning vocals w/chorus. 10. Stripped down, vox/guitar, downtempo & evocative blues. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Tarha Tadagh | 6. | Imarhan | |||
| 2. | Tahabort | 7. | Adounia Azdjazzaqat | |||
| 3. | Ibas Ichikkou | 8. | Id Islegh | |||
| 4. | Idarchan Net | 9. | Arodj N-Inizdjam | |||
| 5. | Assossamagh | 10. | Alwak |