View basket “The Fureys Finest” 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 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 View Product Quick View Lijadu Sisters, The Afro-Beat Soul Sisters Soul / Funk | Soul Jazz | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th February 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lijadu Sisters, The Afro-Beat Soul Sisters £16.00 Genre: Soul / Funk Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP246 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fela Kuti Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.) 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