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May 1, 2014Nomad is more than a beautiful offering for the world music crowd. It's the defining work of a guitar hero.
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Apr 5, 2013Bombino and his band have released a killer document not only for fans of North African guitar music; anyone who has ever appreciated a master player make magic on a Fender while a band, which on Nomad is augmented by a few Auerbach’s go-to session men, organizes structures behind him, will find comfort in Bombino’s music.
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Apr 2, 2013With an American bassist on half the tracks and a German drummer doubling Bombino's own guy half the time too, this is the hardest-rocking of the hard-traveling Tuareg guitarist's three distinct albums.
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Apr 1, 2013Everything here certainly belongs and contributes to the rich, gritty, and ultimately joyous tone of this wonderful album.
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Apr 15, 2013A perfect match of sound and soul, the set introduces a new guitar hero, and confirms Auerbach's arrival as a roots-music producer to be reckoned with.
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MojoApr 9, 2013A tremendous (and timely) distraction from the bad news from the desert this year. [May 2013, p.85]
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Apr 2, 2013Overall, this is a highly enjoyable work packed with infectious licks and proves to be an easy album to get along with from the get-go.
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Apr 1, 2013[Dan Auerbach] helped Bombino make a spacious, centered record, one that stretches to appeal to Western listeners--like the nomads, known for their circular dancing, who temporarily inhabit the fields of Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., every June--without strain or clutter or hipness overload.
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Apr 1, 2013Nomad confirms Bombino's promise, but with a few added surprises.
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Apr 1, 2013This rocks harder and faster than those fellow Tuareg bluesmen, partly due to the noticeable pop influence of another Malian act, Amadou & Mariam.
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Apr 1, 2013New elements like keyboards and lap steel guitar are deployed carefully, filling out the sound rather than leading it astray.
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Apr 1, 2013It's a pleasant, if limited set, and though there are echoes of the mesmeric style of Tinariwen, he sounds more like the attacking Vieux Farka Touré with less ambitious guitar work.
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Apr 1, 2013This is fine internationalist guitar music.
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Apr 1, 2013It remains to be seen whether Nomad reveals Bombino to be an artist of limited means or one who is making the occasional misstep on the way to something great.
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Nov 15, 2020Its a really great album. Theres just a special sound to it. Emotion in the songs. It really sounds like nothing else i've heard
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Feb 5, 2014