Description
Tartit – Abacabok / Crammed Discs Audio CD 2006 / Craw 34
UPC 876623001522
Tartit (meaning "union") are a band from the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The group consists of five women and four men, all of whom are Tamasheq-speaking Tuareg. They formed in 1992 in a refugee camp in Mauritania. Imharhan, an expanded group that includes current and former Tartit members, incorporates electric instruments and cross-cultural experiments into their music.
| Label: | Crammed Discs – Craw 34 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
|
| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2006 |
| Genre: | Blues, Folk, World, & Country |
| Style: | African |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Tabey Tarate | 4:53 | |
| 2 | Ansari | 5:22 | |
| 3 | Eha Ehenia | 4:16 | |
| 4 | Al Jahalat | 5:03 | |
| 5 | Achachore I Chachare Akale |
4:31 | |
| 6 | Chargouba | 2:58 | |
| 7 | Assinaina | 5:32 | |
| 8 | Tihou Beyatene | 4:58 | |
| 9 | Houmeissa | 4:45 | |
| 10 | Abacabok | 5:51 | |
| 11 | Al Afete | 5:53 | |
| 12 | Tadsaq | 5:52 | |
| 13 | Inbahwa | 2:04 |
- Art Direction – Hanna Gorjaczkowska
- Artwork – Zoran Janjetov
- Bass – Nasser (6) (tracks: 2, 9), Oumar Diallo (tracks: 1, 5)
- Flute – Mohamed (6) (tracks: 11)
- Guitar – Ehat (tracks: 2, 9), Mamadou Ousmane Kelly (tracks: 5)
- Guitar, Lead Vocals – Afel Bocoum (tracks: 5)
- Lead Guitar [Electric], Vocals – Mohamed Issa Ag Oumar
- Lute [3-string Tehardent Lute], Vocals – Amanou (2)
- Lute [4-string Tehardent Lute] – Ag Mohamed Idwal
- Lute [Njurkle] – Yoro Cissé (tracks: 5)
- Management – Divano Productions
- Mixed By – Vincent Kenis
- Percussion [Calabash] – Alpha Oumar Sankaré (tracks: 1, 5)
- Photography By – Jean Louis Bruyère
- Producer – Michel Winter, Vincent Kenis
- Violin [Imzad] – Kimi (5) (tracks: 13)
- Violin [Njarka Violin] – Alhassan Hamadoun Sarre (tracks: 5)
- Vocals – Mossa Ag Mohamed, Tinalbaraka (tracks: 3, 8)
- Vocals, Drum [Tinde] – Fadimata W. Mohamedun (Fatma), Fadimata Walett Oumar, Mama Walett Amoumine, Walett Oumar Zeinabou
- Vocals, Violin [Imzad] – Tafa Al Hosseini
- Written-By – Fadimata Walett Oumar (tracks: 1, 3 to 8, 10, 11, 13), Mohamed Issa (tracks: 2, 9, 12)
Nothing is more evocative of the fascinating expanses of the Sahara desert than the music of Tartit, a Tuareg band consisting of five women and four men residing in the Timbuktu region. Tartit play hypnotic, trance-inducing music: the women sit down, sing, and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums, while the men sing and play string instruments, acoustic and electric. The men are veiled, the women aren't. Tuareg society is one of the few throughout Africa in which women are allowed to choose (and divorce) their husbands. The band was formed in a refugee camp, during the Tuareg uprising in the early '90s. Tartit have toured Europe several times, most recently as part of the Desert Blues shows. The album was recorded in Bamako and in the northern Mali desert by (Congotronics producer) Vincent Kenis, on his mobile studio.
