View basket “Kel Tinariwen” has been added to your basket. 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 Ali Farka Touré The Source – Special Edition World / Fusion | World Circuit | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 13th April 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ali Farka Touré The Source – Special Edition £22.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: World Circuit SKU: 5056032309562 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 13th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe King Kologbo & The High Grace Sugar Daddy World / Fusion | Strut Original Masters | 1LP Released 10th February 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe King Kologbo & The High Grace Sugar Daddy £25.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Strut Original Masters SKU: STRUT150LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists The Rough Guide to Latin Psychedelia World / Fusion | World Music Network | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 17th May 2013 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists The Rough Guide to Latin Psychedelia £11.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: World Music Network SKU: RGNET1291LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 17th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz Jazz | Rough Guides | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th July 2016 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Rough Guides SKU: RGNET1345LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dengue Fever Ting Mong World / Fusion | Tuk Tuk Records | 1LP Released 15th September 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dengue Fever Ting Mong £23.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Tuk Tuk Records SKU: TTO1OLP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime World / Fusion | Matador | 1LP Released 21st May 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime £19.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Matador SKU: OLE1614LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fantasma Free Love World / Fusion | Soundway | 2LP Released 6th April 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fantasma Free Love £17.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Soundway SKU: SNDWLP070 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 6th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Fureys & Davey Arthur, The The Fureys Finest Folk | Telstar | 1LP Released 11th April 2024 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fureys & Davey Arthur, The The Fureys Finest £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Telstar SKU: nn284389 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Onipa We No Be Machine Electronica | Strut | 2LP Released 20th March 2020 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Onipa We No Be Machine £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Strut SKU: STRUT217LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 20th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cesaria Evora Club Sodade World / Fusion | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 13th October 2023 £42.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cesaria Evora Club Sodade £42.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3311C Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 13th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in World / Fusion Start again
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