| Tartit / Abacabok |
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| Album: | Abacabok | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Tartit | Added: | Nov 2006 | |
| Label: | Spectre Entertainment Group | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-12-17 | Pull Date: | 2007-02-18 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jan 14 | Dec 31 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 10, 2007: | the Scientific Method Applied to Radio Tihou Beyatene | 2. | Dec 26, 2006: | At the Cafe Bohemian Ansari |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2006-11-22 | ||
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Tartit – Abacabok Reviewed by Sadie O., 11/22/06 Tuareg band doing seriously Saharan music. Men and women, drums and clapping, acoustic and occasionally electric instruments. Often very trance-y, with a heartbeat or loping rhythm. Extremely “roots”! No FCCs – nothing in English. I rather arbitrarily like 9 best. 1. 4:53 ***solo plucked intrument, other instruments join gradually. Beat comes in at about 40 seconds in, very downtempo and trance-y, at a camel’s pace. Male wailing and female responses, very complex rhythm. 2. 5:22 ***a bit downtempo, with somehow a bit of the feel of a cowboy ballad. Males and females alternate the same vocal lines. 3. 4:16 **somewhat uptempo loping drumming, female call and response. 4. 5:03 *solo violinish instrument, slow lone drum and clapping, female call and response. All fairly “offkey”… 5. 4:31 ***pretty stringed instruments, somewhat uptempo drums, although the beat is a bit complex to get a groove on. Male singing and female response. False ending, and then comes back at a real gallop. 6. 2:58 **somewhat uptempo beat, lots of instruments and female call and response, somehow both a gallop and a trance groove. 7. 5:32 **stringed instrument duet, slow and subdued drums, female vocals with male solo singer joining partway through. 8. 4:58 *a few seconds near silence, uptempo beat fades in slowly, almost like a flock of bees approaching, very hummy, trance-y stuff. Electronica/experimental folks, take heed! 9. 4:45 ****solo electric stringed instrument, male vocals and female response, downtempo loping rhythm, easy to like. 10. 5:51 **minimalist slightly downtempo beat, spoken male vocals. Beat changes, stringed instruments do something complex, female singing and more instrumentation. 11. 5:53 solo flute and odd and trance-y female vocal duet, often offkey… 12. 5:52 *** electric guitar and downtempo beat, occasional male vocals. 13. 2:03 near silence at start, solo violinish instrument fades up very slowly, fades out almost equally slowly. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Tabey Tarate | 7. | Assinaina | |||
| 2. | Ansari | 8. | Tihou Beyatene | |||
| 3. | Eha Ehenia | 9. | Houmeissa | |||
| 4. | Al Jahalat | 10. | Abacabok | |||
| 5. | Achachore I Chachare Akale | 11. | Al Afete | |||
| 6. | Chargoba | 12. | Tadsaq | |||
| 13. | Inbahwa | |||||