Time: 67:43
File: Flac
Released: 2023
Styles: Africa (Desert Blues)
Art: Front
1. Adji Kar Teri Miri (6:27)
2. Yer Sabou Yerkoy (5:12)
3. Emolli Tidwall Eheme (6:12)
4. Bayna Daouali (9:23)
5. Zeinab Moussa (6:38)
6. Ahlane Ouassahlane (9:22)
7. Timidawane Hewana (6:06)
8. Ya Llali Ya Ouichi (6:16)
9. Hob Mene (5:25)
10. Nahnou Sigharou El Ouatane (6:37)
Ahl Nana’s music was almost lost to history. The family band, who called themselves L’Orchestre National Mauritanien, had a fundamental role in creating what we now call desert blues, laying the groundwork for artists like Tinariwen and Mdou Moctar by introducing Western instruments into traditional Saharan music. In the 1970s, they were among the most well-known groups in northwestern Africa. Still, it was not common in their native Mauritania to record albums, as music spread largely through concerts and radio performances. Ahl Nana only entered the studio through an extraordinary series of coincidences, and their recordings only survived through an amazing amount of luck.
Now, a compilation of Ahl Nana’s music has been released by Radio Martiko after label head Mechiel Vanbelle rediscovered those lost recordings after more than fifty years. “It all started when we were playing in Agadir, in the south of Morocco,” Mouna Mint Nana tells Vanbelle in the liner notes of Ahl Nana: L’Orchestre National Mauritanien. “A local minister [a politician – Ed.] who was a big fan of us wanted us to play for King Hassan II, so he interrupted the live broadcast of the TV news to present the band and to ask the king to invite us.” A military plane flew Ahl Nana from Agadir to Fez, where they played a nationally televised festival in honor of the king. Ali Boussif, owner of Morocco’s legendary Boussiphone label, saw the concert and invited the band to record at his studio in Casablanca.
L'Orchestre National Mauritanien FLAC
5 comments:
Interesting music BluzBug - it's not the kind I'm going to listen a lot to but it does have a good beat and rythym with excellent voices.
Thanks Bluzbug. Recorded in 1971 (Bandcamp), stillvery good sound. Interesting rhythms and voices.
After some head scratching (my desert language is non existent): I suppose the artist is L'Orchestre National Mauritanien and the title: Ahl Nana. But, what do I know.
Thanks anyway.
"Hypnotic rhythms, sometimes evocative, sometimes beguiling VOCALS, electric guitars, a violin – all reminiscent of the desert rock of the Malian band Tinariwen, but also of the work of Western Saharan SINGER Noura Mint Seymali and her ancestors. It is a well-known fact that music rarely halts at political borders. Mint Soueid Bouh, the violinist and band leader behind the »family business« Ahl Nana, grew up in Timbuktu, then a cultural melting pot, and absorbed all sorts of different influences which she went on to process in her compositions. These formed the basis for Ahl Nana’s repertoire and transported Mauritanian music into the modern age. The recordings featured on this compilation were made in 1971 and have since been gathering dust in storerooms in Casablanca – the music cassette had killed off the vinyl market. However, the songs by Ahl Nana were famous in the Sahara, and even the great Senegalese SINGER Youssou N’Dour has SUNG them. We don’t have the space here to go into the winding paths leading up to the release of these historic recordings; you can read about them in the album’s exciting liner notes. Equally exciting is the music, which has finally been rediscovered for our ears."
https://www.hhv-mag.com/review/mohamed-ould-nana-lorchestre-national-mauritanien-ahl-nana/?lang=en
hopin fer sum Arabik Oud
Thanks so much, BluzBug! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ
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