The Wolf and The Desert Fox.  Mdou Moctar - Anar (From Sousome Tamachek) ac: smol.tish on instagram

Night Views #1

Kings Ave Bridge from the carillion, with more than a hint of smoke in the air

while listening to Anar by Mdou Moctar. (Music from Saharan cellphones Vol 2)

Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping calabash, droning guitars, and vocal overdubs evoke an imagined desert soundscape. All instruments and vocals performed by Mdou only, creating a very personal and auteur sessions. Emotive and introspective, exploring themes of religion, spirituality, and matters of the heart.

From love ballads (“Nikali Talit”), religious praise (“Ilmouloud”), to life counsel (“Amidini”), the songs are intensely personal, both in content and in structure. Constructed around the guitar, Mdou plays everything on the album in lush layered overdubs, singing both call and response vocals, playing rhythm guitar, and drumming on the calabash. Produced in collaboration with Christopher Kirkley (Sahel Sounds) and longtime associate Jesse Johnson (Boomarm Nation), the light touch pays respect to the origin of these ballads. The result is a very different side of Mdou Moctar, that of quiet introspection, lifted out of memory for one last time.

7, 11, 24, 30

7. already answered

11. three favorite songs from movie or TV series soundtrack

as per my last ask, “the gael” from the last of the mohicans, “Kazad-dum” from the Fellowship of the Rings, and “the flower of carnage” from Kill Bill

24. three favorite old songs

that’s like..... my entire music library lmaooooo. That’s impossibe to answer so here’s three random ones. “6 consolations S. 172 No. 3 in D-flat Major” by Franz Liszt. “the coldest days of my life” by the Chi-Lites, and “together again” by Buck Owens

30. three songs you really want your followers to know (for reasons other than all those above)

(I talk about the same songs all the time on my blog so i’ll try to talk about ones i haven’t pushed as much)

“anar” by Mdou Moctar because holy shit that song makes you feel peace in your soul. 

“haunt me” by Furns because it’s sadly beautiful and reminds me of standing at the shore when it’s really cold and everything looks sea foam green.

“the farthest city” by moscow olympics because it is the greatest shoegaze/dreampop song ever!

thanks alex!

Anar (2014) - Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar - "Anar" (2014) [1100x1100]

Day 7, item 1 (late)

I listened to this song (https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pyb7N1zmY7ITJPMwf0LXm?si=Vxl6SvHOSqCFg024UZu2HA) from your Discover Weekly and peeled apples. Do you remember the first time you had an apple? What about your most memorable apple memory? Have you been to apple orchards? Who usually cuts apples at your Ujjain home? Have you heard any songs about apples? Do you like your apples red, golden or green?

SNACKPOINT CHARLIE for MAY 2018 is archived here. Hey that was fast! Now go here to play all previous installments. No time to lose!

Transmission 013 - 2018.05.02 PLAYLIST

1) L'Orchestre National De Mauritanie - “Oumletna ("La Mone”)” from L’ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE MAURITANIE (1968-1975) https://lorchestrenationaldemauritanie.bandcamp.com/album/lorchestre-national-de-mauritanie

2) Lehakat Tzliley Ha'oud - “Meafula (Hanale Hitbalbela)” from HAFLA! - A ROUGH GUIDE TO JAFFA'S 70'S SOUND http://www.fortuna-records.com/product/various-artist-hafla-a-rough-guide-to-jaffa-s-70-s-sound-compiled-by-fortuna-records

3) Khruangbin - “Maria También” from CON TODO EL MUNDO https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/con-todo-el-mundo-excluding-n-s-america

4) Epee Eugene Solgary - “Ewusu” from EWUSU / PROPIÉTÉ PRIVÉE https://www.discogs.com/Epee-Eugene-Solgary-Ewusu/release/9440735

5) The Funkees - “Point Of No Return” from DANCING TIME: THE BEST OF EASTERN NIGERIA'S AFRO ROCK EXPONENTS 1973-77 https://amzn.to/2HXiA7s

6)  Melike Demirağ ‎– “Hadi Canım Sen De” from HADI CANIM SEN DE / MERHABA https://www.discogs.com/Melike-Demira%C4%9F-Hadi-Can%C4%B1m-Sen-De-Merhaba/release/4609406

7) Sidi Touré - “Heyyeya” from TOUBALBERO https://amzn.to/2HZNnki

8) Kishore Kumar - “Mehbooba Payee Hai Maine” from MOHABBAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfMAFrNiAo

9) Ammar El Sheriyi - “Asmar Ya Asmarani” from MUSIC FROM THE SONGS OF ABDEL HALIM HAFEZ PLAYED BY AMMAR EL SHERIYI IN HIS OWN STYLE https://www.discogs.com/Ammar-El-Sheriyi-Music-From-The-Songs-Of-Abdel-Halim-Hafez-Played-By-Ammar-El-Sheriyi-In-His-Own-Sty/master/1182327

10) Taher Elies - “Trha” https://soundcloud.com/taher-elies

11) Mdou Moctar - “Achinane” from ANAR https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/anar

12) Wangaro ft. Diego - “Aibaka” from GAO RAP https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/gao-rap-hip-hop-from-northern-mali

13a) Mansoor Hassan - “Ya Ali (original mix)” https://soundcloud.com/sixdegreesrecords/sets/global-grooves-travels-world

13b)  Earl Nightingale ‎– “The Strangest Secret” https://www.discogs.com/Earl-Nightingale-The-Strangest-Secret/master/410059

14) Grotto - “Bad Times” from AT LAST https://odionlivingstone.bandcamp.com/album/at-last

15) Orhan Gencebay - “Ask Pinari” https://www.discogs.com/Orhan-Gencebay-A%C5%9Fk-P%C4%B1nar%C4%B1/master/1103285

16) Adem Harun - “Track 1” from ADEM HARUN V-4 https://www.awesometapes.com/adem-harun/

17) Piri - “Wame Igini Kamu (Papua New Guinea)” from THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/590766-the-photographs-of-charles-duvelle-disques-ocora-and-collection-prophet

18) Ephrem Tamru – “Akal Gela” from CASSETTE CHICHIKA – DANCE-FLOOR HEAVY http://shebasound.com/2015/04/cassette-chichika-dance-floor-heavy/

19) Samai Onvong / Plern Promdan - “Noom Lum Plern / Kaow Huk”

20) Roongped Ramsing / Samai Aonvong - “Pong Pang / Look Aey”

21) “Ahun Demkesh Abedaye” from AMHARA WEDDING SONGS OF ETHIOPIA https://www.discogs.com/Various-Amhara-Wedding-Songs-of-Ethiopia/release/3652514

22) “Radio Niger with a little distortion” from SAHELSOUNDS http://sahelsounds.com/2017/12/radio-niger/

23) Ibrahim Boyati - “Solo Dotara” from THE TRAVELLING ARCHIVE - FOLK MUSIC FROM BENGAL: FIELD RECORDINGS FROM BANGLADESH, INDIA AND THE BENGALI DIASPORA http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576384-the-travelling-archive-folk-music-from-bengal

24) George Katsaros - “Fonias Tha Ghino (I'll Become a Murderer)” from GEORGE KATSAROS: GREEK BLUES IN AMERICA, VOL. 1 https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/george-katsaros-greek-blues-in-america-vol-1

25) Boubacar Traore - “Mariama” from MARIAMA https://www.discogs.com/Boubacar-Traor%C3%A9-Mariama/master/318017

26) Ramesh - “Nefrin Shodeh” from BEST OF 70'S PERSIAN MUSIC, VOL. 8 https://amzn.to/2JpVPc0

27a) Nebiyu Hamdi - “Yisare Hinena (Dub mix by Nick Manasseh)” https://soundcloud.com/sheba-sound/gurage-sabat-bet-extended-dub-mix

27b) Ould Médi & Ould Manou (voices & Tidinit lute) - “Traditional” from MAURITANIE - CHANTS D'HOMMES - CHANTS MAURES VOL.2 https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.fr/2018/04/mauritania-chants-dhomme-par-ould-meni.html

27c) Daniel Steven Crafts ‎– “The Essence Of Melodrama” from SOAP OPERA SUITE / SNAKE OIL SYMPHONY http://www.dscrafts.net/recordings.html https://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Steven-Crafts-Soap-Opera-Suite-Snake-Oil-Symphony/release/1237311

Allez hop ! une nouvelle petite playlist de l'atelier !

>> Retrouvez-la directement sur : SPOTIFY ou DEEZER (ou ci dessous)

— Need some music inspiration ?

>> Go straight to SPOTIFY or DEEZER (or listen from players below)

Enjoy ! : )

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01    All This Is Yours – Hammerhead     02    I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better – The Byrds     03    Hotel Monbar – Kortatu     04    Sacrifice – Flipper     05    The Ocean – Richard Hawley     06    Rocketship XL-3 – Man Or Astro-Man?     07    Cette Ville Est Un Enfer – Dogs     08    Slow Motion – Jane Weaver     09    Outlaw Heart – Tiger Army     10    Jacked Up – Weezer     11    Nazi Burning Man – Impalers     12    Is There Anything I Can Do – The Ashes     13    A Brief History of Rhythm, Dub, Life and Death – The Skull Defekts     14    Your New Aesthetic – Jimmy Eat World     15    Soul In Isolation – The Chameleons     16    Precious Rose – Eddy Current Suppression Ring     17    Kill Someone You Hate – Redd Kross     18    Symptom of the Universe – 2009 Remastered Version – Black Sabbath     19    In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country – Boards of Canada     20    Knight Of Wands – Au Revoir Simone     21    I Hate My School – Necros     22    Les éventreurs du dancing – Les Tigres Du Futur     23    Another Part of Me – 2012 Remaster – Michael Jackson     24    I Wake Up Dead – The Dahmers     25    Drink It Up – Negativland     26    I Don’t Believe – New Mexican Disaster Squad     27    Deep Creep – Mystic Inane     28    Elevation – Television     29    War Machine – Jaguar     30    Star Rider – Hällas     31    Drained Lake – Metz     32    Withered Hand – Thee Oh Sees     34    Anar – Mdou Moctar     35    Something On Your Mind – Karen Dalton     36    Zu Atrapatu Arte – Kortatu

Arrhythmia Episode 32 November 2017

JIB KIDDER - FOUR SEASONS V/VM - TRUE MDOU MOCTAR - ANAR EMMANUELLE PARRENIN - BELLE VIRGINIE EMMANUELLE PARRENIN - TOPAZE EMRA GRID - REPLACED RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT - WATERY GRAVE LIZ PHAIR - ANT IN ALASKA RAS G - WILLOW’S HAIR MAMMAN SANI - FIVE HUNDRED MILES THE NAMES - NIGHTSHIFT TAR HALOS - CRUSH TOUR TOKYO IGNATZ - WE USED TO SMOKE INSIDE KEITH MLEVHU - THE RICH AND THE POOR POCAHAUNTED / ROBEDOOR - HUNTED GATHERING MARY LATTIMORE - YOU MADE IT UP (EXCERPT) LINDA PERHACS - HEY, WHO REALLY CARES? RICH LA BONTÉ - WHITE MAGICIAN LUNGFISH - LAY YOURSELF ASIDE HAROUMI HOSONO AND THE YELLOW MAGIC BAND - SHAMBALA SIGNAL ANGEL - WILD IN THE STREETS JOSEPH CHAVES - BILL LEE

we're on the air at the top of the hour! tune into wlur until 7pm for a couple hours of what i've been exploring lately or catch up below with last week's show.

no love for ned on wlur – october 18th, 2017 from 5-7pm

artist // track // album // label the afghan whigs // miles iz ded // congregation // sub pop the gotobeds // ipso facto (it's all happening) // fucking in the future plus five // comedy minus one the world // i fell in love with a slumlord // first world record // lumpy crack cloud // philosopher's calling // anchoring point 7" // good person heart beach // 8am // haircut // spunk soar // nineteenth avenue // dark/gold // father/daughter * sheer mag // expect the bayonet // need to feel your love // wilsuns recording company sparrow people // i thought of you // i thought of you 7" // emotional response ciggie witch // 1989 // mad music cassette // lost and lonesome the weather station // kept it all to myself // the weather station // paradise of bachelors * twain // little dog mind // rare feeling // keeled scales andrew savage // phantom limbo // thawing dawn // dull tools matt patershuk // memory and the first law of thermodynamics // same as i ever have been // black hen music * mdou moctar // anar // sousoume tamachek // sahel sounds don cherry // utopia and visions // organic music society // caprice dieuf-dieul de thies featuring assane camara // rumba para parejas // aw sa yone, volume two // teranga beat stanislas tohon // o kou // dans le tchink système // hot casa lee "scratch" perry and subatomic sound system featuring screechy dan // dub along // super ape returns to conquer // subatomic sound * peluché // scared after all // scared after all single // big teddy mount kimbie featuring micachu // marilyn // love what survives // warp * patience // white of an eye // white of an eye 7" // night school carlo cerati and adam di angelo // leonard's theme // chatty catties ep // wishlessness alexis georgopoulos and jefre cantu-ledesma // the letter // fragments of a season // emotional response beach fossils // down the line // somersault // bayonet the charming youngsters // sleepyhead // middleweights // cool not cool superchunk // break the glass // break the glass 7" // merge reese mchenry with spider bags // mexico city // bad girl lp // sophomore lounge la de da's // how is the air up there // la de da's // real groovy failed flowers // supermarket scene // failed flowers // twenty five diamonds david west // peace or love // peace or love // tough love the wedding present // everyone thinks he looks daft // george best thirty // happy happy birthday to me

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

Mdou Moctar

Originally hailing from Abalak in Niger, Mdou Moctar is one of the most celebrated Tuareg guitarists around. With his early albums Anar and Afelan earning first local then international recognition, Moctar has since performed his hypnotic desert songs and fiery electronic guitar solos all over the world, even starring in the first ever Tuareg-language feature film, a Saharan tribute to Prince’s Purple Rain called Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (‘Rain the Color of Blue with A Little Red In It’).

Now Mdou Moctar has returned with a new album, Sousoume Tamachek, a dreamy, intimate record exploring “themes of religion, spirituality and matters of the heart”. Released via the excellent label Sahel Sounds, it’s available now via Bandcamp. Give the title track below a listen…

Photo: Markus Milcke

Mdou Moctar: “Anar”

A track from Moctar’s new album for Sahel Sounds, Sousoume Tamachek

One of the most beautiful songs I've heard in a while