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Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 34:57 minutes | 691 MB
World, Desert Blues, Female Vocal | Label: Glitterbeat Records, Official Digital Download

Sahrawi singer-songwriter activist Aziza Brahim’s fifth album Mawja (Wave in Hassaniya Arabic) is fashioned from a simple but powerful foundational palette: Saharan and Iberian percussion entwining with stately guitars and warm, enveloping bass.

Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019) [Official Digital Download]

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Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 34:08 minutes | 367 MB
World, Desert Blues, Female Vocal | Label: Glitterbeat Records, Official Digital Download

On the front cover of Aziza Brahim’s new album, Sahari, a young girl poses in ballet shoes and a glistening white tutu. It’s a common childhood scene, but it’s tipped upside down. She’s not privileged and the backdrop isn’t a comfortable suburban home. She’s an exile, living nowhere near her homeland, and behind her stand the tents and buildings of a refugee camp. There’s a desert on the ground and a burning sky above. Yet even in this bleakness, she has optimism. She believes in a better future.

Ebo Krdum - Soga Jamailé (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

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Ebo Krdum - Soga Jamailé (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Ebo Krdum - Soga Jamailé (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 25:39 minutes | 279 MB
World | Label: Epidemic Sound, Official Digital Download

This album : Soga jamailé ( In Fur Language and means: The beauty) it’s a chapter of my written-in-exile songs. Songs that telling about the beauty of nature, my longing to : my comrades, relatives and friends who passed away during the ongoing war. But also some songs are about optimism and hope for a safe and beautiful future despite what our world is going through today. Even showing the thankfulness to the universe for creating my mother and for looking after her until she brought me to this world. In this album I’m also expressing my gratitude and appreciation for my mother’s existence.

Bounaly - Dimanche à Bamako (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Bounaly - Dimanche à Bamako (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Bounaly - Dimanche à Bamako (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:40 minutes | 987 MB
World, Desert Blues, Blues Rock | Label: Sahel Sounds, Official Digital Download

First heard by global audiences on Sahel Sounds’ Music from Saharan WhatsApp series, Malian guitar hero Bounaly (the stage name of Ali "Bounaly" Traore) makes his full-length debut with “Dimanche à Bamako” (“Sunday in Bamako”). Recorded live on location, the music on "Dimanche à Bamako" is a mix of regional favorites, traditional standards, and originals. Long songs with looping rhythms, pounding kick drums, and electric shredding guitars, punctuated by shout-outs to the guests of honor. A raw and frenetic take on Northern Mali desert sound, playing for the diaspora at a Bamako wedding.

Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 65:14 minutes | 723 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records, Official Digital Download

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on new album Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band’s trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application.

Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 38:00 minutes | 429 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Mieruba, Official Digital Download

'Diré’, Idrissa Soumaoro new album, comes as a surprise to Malian and international audiences. Composer, singer, guitarist and master of the kamalen n’goni Idrissa Soumaoro presents here a beautiful collection of songs on his third album, Diré, named in honor of the town where he met his wife and where his first daughter, who is no longer with us, was born.

Bombino - Sahel (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Bombino - Sahel (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Bombino - Sahel (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:06 minutes | 958 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Partisan Records, Official Digital Download

Bombino is back with a brand new studio album - 'Sahel'. The new record is Bombino’s first full album in over five years, and follows 2018’s ‘Deran’, which garnered praise like "the Sultan of Shred" from The New York Times, and "the World's Best Guitarist" from Vice. This praise also turned the guitar luminary + Tuareg folk hero into the first-ever GRAMMY®-nominated artist from Niger. ‘Sahel’ was produced by produced by David Wrench (David Byrne, Frank Ocean, Caribou, The xx) and was recorded at Studio HIBA in Casablanca, Morocco.

Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

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Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 71:24 minutes | 714 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Clermont Music, Official Digital Download

Prepare to be blown away by the intesity of Al Bilali Soudan. This music has been performed from at least the 16th century by Touareg griots to celebrate the end of harvest and the changing of the seasons, to encourage warriors and to welcome them back from battles, to praise noble families and to heal the sick. Over centuries this music has evolved through fusion with other ethnic groups.

Al Bilali Soudan - Babi (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

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Al Bilali Soudan - Babi (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Al Bilali Soudan - Babi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 52:24 minutes | 542 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Clermont Music, Official Digital Download

From Timbuktu Mali AL BILALI SOUDAN are members of an extended family of craftsmen who for generations have been sought after musicians and griots. The band is a torch-bearer of a quintessentially Tamasheq music shaped by continuous interplay between tehardent and hand percussion. Abellou and his uncle Abou are masters of the genre. Accompanied by their sons and cousins they bring youth and energy to the music. Lightning fast, sometimes looping, this is intense mastery of a traditional repertoire is improvised and adapted into the 21st century. Their work represents cultural preservation renewed. The music retains a similar intensity and urgency while remaining loose and dreamlike. Melodic phrases spiral around and on top of each other while shouts of ecstatic joy and proddings are peppered amid the more traditional praises.

Etran de L'Air - Agadez (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Etran de L'Air - Agadez (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Etran de L'Air - Agadez (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 41:26 minutes | 884 MB
World, Desert Blues, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Sahel Sounds, Official Digital Download

Etran de L’Aïr (or “stars of the Aïr region”) 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.

Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 47:07 minutes | 520 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records, Official Digital Download

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on new album Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band’s trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application.

Khalab & M'Berra Ensemble - M'berra (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

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Khalab & M'Berra Ensemble - M'berra (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Khalab & M'Berra Ensemble - M'berra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 37:29 minutes | 447 MB
World, Desert Blues, Electronic, Afrofuturism | Label: Real World Records, Official Digital Download

There are stories here. There are memories and dreams, keepsakes and wishes. There are truths told straight and fashioned into shapes. There is struggle and resilience. There is humanity. Throughout, there is music.

Tinariwen - Elwan (2017) [Official Digital Download]

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Tinariwen - Elwan (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Tinariwen - Elwan (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:13 minutes | 493 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records, Official Digital Download

For the last five years, Tinariwen have been busy criss-crossing the globe bringing their triumpant tours to all five continents and expanding their audience. During this time their beloved homeland in the Adrar des Ifoghas, a Saharan mountain range that straddles the border between north-eastern Mali and southern Algeria has, in effect, been transformed into a conflict zone, a place where nobody can venture without putting themselves in danger. These conflicts have forced the band into exile to record their 8th album, Elwan.

Noori & His Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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Noori & His Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Noori & His Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:55 minutes | 653 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Ostinato Records, Official Digital Download

A soundtrack of Sudan's revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture.

Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 36:13 minutes | 794 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records, Official Digital Download

A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the band's already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call-and-response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard melodies that almost evoke an Arabic take on 80s synth-pop. There's distinct parallels with the sounds found on this tape and the work uncovered in recent years by cratedigger labels such as Awesome Tapes From Africa, Sahel Sounds and Sublime Frequencies.