Agadez
Etran de LāAĆÆr (or āstars of the AĆÆr regionā) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music.
Playing a sound that invokes the desert metropolis, Agadez celebrates the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding. Etran is a family band composed of brothers and cousins, all born and raised in the small neighborhood of Abalane, just in the shadow of the grand mosque. Sons of nomadic families that settled here in the 1970s fleeing the droughts, they all grew up in Agadez. The band was formed in 1995 when current band leader Moussa āAbindiā Ibra was only 9 years old.
āWe only had one acoustic guitar,ā he explains, āand for percussion, we hit a calabash with a sandal." Over the decades, the band painstakingly pieced together gear to form their band and built an audience by playing everywhere, for everyone. āIt was difficult. We would walk to gigs by foot, lugging all our equipment, carrying a small PA and guitars on our backs, 25 kilometers into the bush, to play for freeā¦thereās nowhere in Agadez we havenāt played.ā
Whereas other Tuareg guitarists look to Western rock, Etran de LāAĆÆr play in a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous. Itās perhaps this quality that makes them so beloved in Agadez. āWe play for the Tuareg, the Toubou, the Zarma, the Hausa,ā Abindi explains. āWhen you invite us, we come and play.ā Their music is rooted in celebration, and invokes the exuberance of an Agadez wedding, with an overwhelming abundance of guitars, as simultaneous solos playfully pass over one another with a restrained precision, forceful yet never overindulgent.
Tracklist
1. Imouwizla
2. Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
3. Nak Deranine
4. Tchingolene
5. Nak Igley Ismadarana
6. Tahawerte Ine Idinette
7. Alhaire
8. Adounia
9. Karade Marhane
10. Tarha Warghey Ichile
Soundwave
https://youtu.be/-5TiX2S57hY
Etran de LāAĆÆr (or āstars of the AĆÆr regionā) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music.
Playing a sound that invokes the desert metropolis, Agadez celebrates the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding. Etran is a family band composed of brothers and cousins, all born and raised in the small neighborhood of Abalane, just in the shadow of the grand mosque. Sons of nomadic families that settled here in the 1970s fleeing the droughts, they all grew up in Agadez. The band was formed in 1995 when current band leader Moussa āAbindiā Ibra was only 9 years old.
āWe only had one acoustic guitar,ā he explains, āand for percussion, we hit a calabash with a sandal." Over the decades, the band painstakingly pieced together gear to form their band and built an audience by playing everywhere, for everyone. āIt was difficult. We would walk to gigs by foot, lugging all our equipment, carrying a small PA and guitars on our backs, 25 kilometers into the bush, to play for freeā¦thereās nowhere in Agadez we havenāt played.ā
Whereas other Tuareg guitarists look to Western rock, Etran de LāAĆÆr play in a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous. Itās perhaps this quality that makes them so beloved in Agadez. āWe play for the Tuareg, the Toubou, the Zarma, the Hausa,ā Abindi explains. āWhen you invite us, we come and play.ā Their music is rooted in celebration, and invokes the exuberance of an Agadez wedding, with an overwhelming abundance of guitars, as simultaneous solos playfully pass over one another with a restrained precision, forceful yet never overindulgent.
Tracklist
1. Imouwizla
2. Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
3. Nak Deranine
4. Tchingolene
5. Nak Igley Ismadarana
6. Tahawerte Ine Idinette
7. Alhaire
8. Adounia
9. Karade Marhane
10. Tarha Warghey Ichile
Soundwave
https://youtu.be/-5TiX2S57hY
Description
Etran de LāAĆÆr (or āstars of the AĆÆr regionā) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music.
Playing a sound that invokes the desert metropolis, Agadez celebrates the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding. Etran is a family band composed of brothers and cousins, all born and raised in the small neighborhood of Abalane, just in the shadow of the grand mosque. Sons of nomadic families that settled here in the 1970s fleeing the droughts, they all grew up in Agadez. The band was formed in 1995 when current band leader Moussa āAbindiā Ibra was only 9 years old.
āWe only had one acoustic guitar,ā he explains, āand for percussion, we hit a calabash with a sandal." Over the decades, the band painstakingly pieced together gear to form their band and built an audience by playing everywhere, for everyone. āIt was difficult. We would walk to gigs by foot, lugging all our equipment, carrying a small PA and guitars on our backs, 25 kilometers into the bush, to play for freeā¦thereās nowhere in Agadez we havenāt played.ā
Whereas other Tuareg guitarists look to Western rock, Etran de LāAĆÆr play in a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous. Itās perhaps this quality that makes them so beloved in Agadez. āWe play for the Tuareg, the Toubou, the Zarma, the Hausa,ā Abindi explains. āWhen you invite us, we come and play.ā Their music is rooted in celebration, and invokes the exuberance of an Agadez wedding, with an overwhelming abundance of guitars, as simultaneous solos playfully pass over one another with a restrained precision, forceful yet never overindulgent.
Tracklist
1. Imouwizla
2. Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
3. Nak Deranine
4. Tchingolene
5. Nak Igley Ismadarana
6. Tahawerte Ine Idinette
7. Alhaire
8. Adounia
9. Karade Marhane
10. Tarha Warghey Ichile
Soundwave
https://youtu.be/-5TiX2S57hY
