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- Summary: This is the debut release for the Southern Algeria Tuareg band led by Moussa Ben Abderahmane (aka Sadam), a cousin to Tinariwen's bass player Eyadou Ag Leche.
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- Record Label: City Slang
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, International
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Apr 28, 2016An assured, ear-opening debut.
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Q MagazineApr 28, 2016Tahabort, however, soon kicks up a rousigly Fela Kuti groove, and there follow divergent echoes of Saharan folk and, on the band's titular tune, Algerian Rai, to vary up the ever-pleasing dusty meanderings. [Jun 2016, p.112]
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Apr 28, 2016Imarhan is the sound the band have spent their whole lives perfecting and it comes across like a best of. Given that they've probably got a lot more in the back catalogue that didn't make the cut for this album, there's definitely more to come from the Imarhan arsenal, but this is a great start.
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UncutApr 28, 2016For all the received wisdoms that encircle the desert blues of these groups, what's most seductive about songs like Imarhan's "Alwak" and "Addounia Azdjazzaqat" is the intimacy of the performance, a hushed wonder that breathes its poetry on the neck of the listener. [May 2016, p.74]
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Apr 28, 2016It’s bold approach, from a group of musicians clearly focused on soaking in a wide range of influences and offering their own distillation of the Tuareg sound. The apprentices aren’t fully ready to surpass their masters just yet, but they are intent on writing their own story.
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