| Terakaft / Aratan N Azawad |
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| Album: | Aratan N Azawad | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Terakaft | Added: | Jul 2011 | |
| Label: | World Village | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-07-31 | Pull Date: | 2011-10-02 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Sep 25 | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 | Aug 7 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 31, 2011: | New World Disorder Amazzagh | 4. | Sep 17, 2011: | ThermoNuclear Bar Hegh Ténéré | |
| 2. | Dec 24, 2011: | Blue World Disorder Kek Amidi Nin | 5. | Sep 16, 2011: | Music Casserole Hegh Ténéré | |
| 3. | Sep 18, 2011: | TillamockingBird Ahabib, Talikoba | 6. | Sep 10, 2011: | New World Disorder Talikoba |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2011-07-30 | ||
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Terakaft – Aratan N Azawad Reviewed by Sadie O., 7/30/11 Tuareg desert blues-rock, closely related to (almost an offshoot of) Tinariwen. Very much a rebel spirit, but really lovely (they get inspiration from Bob Marley and John Lennon). Rather more of a nod to international musical influences than you hear in Tinariwen, otherwise pretty similar sounding (e.g., damn good.) FCCs? I dunno – do you speak Tamashek? 1. 3:37 ***loping camel-walk groove, minimalist and very pretty. 2. 3:32 ***bluesy solo guitar intro, sort of uptempo, call and response. 3. 3:50 **odd grunty rhythm behind the guitar, claps and call & response. Builds into something quite nice. 4. 2:51 ***I swear this is almost Highlife – no idea why, but it’s really sweet. 5. 5:02 **long guitar flourish intro, rather wistful sounding, then loping, almost reggae groove. 6. 3:54 ****they’re channeling Neil Young! No kidding! Anyway, it’s waycool. 7. 2:36 ***and this one sounds like Riders of the Purple Sage – it’s like a cowboy song. Huh! 8. 3:42 **midtempo sway, a bit of southern soul in this one… 9. 3:46 **slow and downbeat, relaxed, rolling groove. 10. 4:22 **western sounding chord progression, sweet sounding vocals. 11. 3:17 ***midtempo camel walk groove, a bit of reggae in the rhythm guitar, very bluesy lead guitar. 12. 3:41 ***this almost has a Lynyrd Skynyrd aspect to it, unless I’m getting a bit tranced out and crazy. Midtempo, kinda stoned. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Hegh Ténéré | 7. | Idiya Idohena | |||
| 2. | Kek Amidi Nin | 8. | Ahod | |||
| 3. | Wer Essinen | 9. | Aman Wi Kawalnen | |||
| 4. | Akoz Imgharen | 10. | Aratan N Azawad | |||
| 5. | Ahabib | 11. | Talikoba | |||
| 6. | Amazzagh | 12. | Alghalem |