Abbar el Hamada Aziza Brahim SKU: GBLP031 Barcode: 4030433603116 19.00 £19.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Glitterbeat Released Date: 17th March 2016 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Western Saharan musician/activist Aziza Brahim’s new album Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada), is a commanding and compassionate musical statement about, and for, the tumultuous age in which we live. Raised in a Saharawi refugee camp in the Algerian desert, and living in exile for more than two decades (first in Cuba and currently in Barcelona), Brahim’s life and music embodies both the tragedies and hopes of the present-day migrant and refugee experience. As walls and borders are again being raised though-out Europe and other corners of the world, Aziza Brahim’s passionately sung poetic defiance, is especially timely and profound. Los Muros (The Walls), a dignified desert dreamscape; is emblematic of Aziza’s artistry. The lyrics morph from condemning the sand fortifications Morocco has erected along the Western Saharan border (to prevent the return of the Saharawi to their homeland), to a recognition that while walls are tragically universal, so is the imaginative spirit that encourages us to transcend them. Another fleeting star was seen Crossing the wall tonight, Undetected by the radar, Unnoticed by the guard. On the land and the sea The walls keep rising still. The music and lyrics on Abbar el Hamada masterfully reflect the restless, imaginative search for home, explicit in the album’s title. Hamada is the word used by the Saharawi people to describe the rocky desert landscape along the Algerian/Western Saharan frontier where tens of thousands of their people are stranded in purgatorial refugee camps. “For me, Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada) is a title that synthesizes our destiny as a country over the last 40 years”, Aziza explains. “We are suffering an injustice that condemns us to try and survive in an environment as inhospitable as the Hamada.” When recently asked how she would best describe her musical mission and methods, Aziza’s reply was like her music; revealing and beautifully stated: “I’m not able to separate politics, cultural and personal concerns. So, the focus of my music is all of these areas at the same time. Political, because of its commitment to the denunciation of social injustice. Cultural, because it searches for new musical ideas. Personal, because it expresses the worries of a person that aspires to live with dignity in a better world.” Innovation, naked truth, humility and political outcry: these are the raw materials of Aziza Brahim’s ever expanding musical vision. On her new album, Abbar el Hamada she fuses and fashions these elements into an unforgettable work that is both deeply inspired and deeply inspiring. Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada): A look around me after forty years of occupation, of exile, of diaspora. A conversation. A discussion between emigrants, refugees and stationaries; between patriots, expatriates and the stateless; between placed, postponed and displaced; between nomads and the sedentary; between Saharan, sub-Saharan, north Saharan and Saharawis. A conversation between countries, between cultures, between generations, between tribes, between beliefs, between people. People with no other resources than the word, their voices and the skin of their hands and drums. With no other intention than to change the situation by means of music, by means of the imagination, even if it is barely for a moment. Through the fences, the barriers, the camps, the iron bars, the walls, the barbed wire, the seas, the mountain ranges, the rivers, the borders. Across the Hamada. —Aziza Brahim Artist Aziza Brahim Genre World / Fusion Label Glitterbeat Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1.Buscando la Paz 03:08 2.Calles de Dajla 02:50 3.El canto de la arena 04:48 4.El wad 03:14 5.La cordillera negra 03:55 6.Abbar el Hamada 03:36 7.Baraka 03:51 8.Mani 05:25 9.Intifada 02:55 10.Los muros 04:41 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from World / Fusion View Product Quick View Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition World / Fusion | World Circuit | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th September 2021 £25.00 - £50.00 Select options Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition £25.00 - £50.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: World Circuit Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th September 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Manu Delago Circadian World / Fusion | One Little Independent | 1LP Released 13th September 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Manu Delago Circadian £21.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP1525 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Les Filles De Illighadad At Pioneer Works World / Fusion | Sahel Sounds | 1LP Released 28th May 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Les Filles De Illighadad At Pioneer Works £20.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Sahel Sounds SKU: SS063LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fela Kuti Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition) World / Fusion | Partisan Records | 2LP Released 19th August 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fela Kuti Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition) £25.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Partisan Records SKU: KFR2006-8 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists City Music Tokyo – Multiple World / Fusion | Gearbox | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 5th April 2024 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists City Music Tokyo – Multiple £35.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1593 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lloyd McNeill Tori World / Fusion | Soul Jazz | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 23rd July 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lloyd McNeill Tori £23.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP487 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club World / Fusion | World Circuit | 180g, 2LP Released 19th October 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club £22.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: World Circuit SKU: 0075597951684 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 19th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Melati ESP hipernatural World / Fusion | Carpark Records | 1LP Released 28th April 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Melati ESP hipernatural £20.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Carpark Records SKU: CAK163LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Texas Moon Rock And Pop | Dead Oceans | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 18th February 2022 £19.00 - £20.00 Select options Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Texas Moon £19.00 - £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dead Oceans Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Various Artists Bollywood Bloodbath World / Fusion | Finders Keepers | 2LP Released 3rd October 2011 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Bollywood Bloodbath £18.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Finders Keepers SKU: FKR052LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in World / Fusion Start again
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