Jan 30, 2013
Jan 28, 2013
Jan 26, 2013
Jan 23, 2013
Jan 20, 2013
Tinariwen (Live at Amoeba)
Acclaimed "Touareg" band Tinariwen performed their song 'Imidiwan win Sahara' at Amoeba Music Hollywood on September 29, 2011.
Bombino
Bombino, is a young touareg singer and a guitar wizard whose riffs echo Jimi Hendrix and John Lee Hooker. Driven into exile from Niger, Bombino picked up his first guitar at an early age ( when he was just 12).
He helps transport the traditions of his nomadic people into the future. Today's top tune is ' Tar Hani' ( My Love), from his CD, Agadez.
Jan 17, 2013
Jan 16, 2013
Ness El Ghiwan singing in Tamazight
Ness El Ghiwan, the Moroccan musical band, has announced, through their leading figure, Omar siyyed, that they are going to release their first single in the Amazigh language. The song is entitled ' Tamaguit' written by the great Izenzaren poet Mohamed Hanafi.
It's a call for unification and expresses our need to accept cultural diversity as well as other identity issues.
It's a call for unification and expresses our need to accept cultural diversity as well as other identity issues.
Dania Ben Sassi
Dania's second song in the Amazigh music festival in Tripoli on 29th of November 2012.
kabylia recieves the New Amazigh Year 2963
This is how Amazigh people traditionally celebrate the coming of the New Amazigh Year.
Jan 15, 2013
Jan 14, 2013
Moorish civilisation in Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of
Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar
In 711 CE, a North African Moorish Umayyad army invaded Visigothic Christian Hispania. Under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, they landed at Gibraltar and brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. Al-ʾAndalūs (Arabic الإندلس : Land of the Vandals) is the Arabic name given to the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors and its subsesquent inhabitants.
In 711 CE, a North African Moorish Umayyad army invaded Visigothic Christian Hispania. Under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, they landed at Gibraltar and brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. Al-ʾAndalūs (Arabic الإندلس : Land of the Vandals) is the Arabic name given to the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors and its subsesquent inhabitants.
Khalid IZRI with Dania Ben Sassi Celebrating the new Amazigh year 2963 in Tripoli on January 12th, 2013
Khalid Izri and Dania Ben Sassi celebrating the New Amazigh year 2963 on 12th January, 2013.
Takfarinas , Bambino and other amazigh bands also participated in the ceremony.
Check out the Gallery for images of the celebration.
Check out the Gallery for images of the celebration.
Jan 6, 2013
Jan 5, 2013
Khalid IZRI Concert in Tripoli, Libya
Celebrating the Amazigh New Year 2963 in Tripoli, Libya
LIVE Concert on the 12th of January 2013
Tripoli Stadium.
Tinariwen: The Voice Of Amazigh Tuareg and The Music of resistance (English Video bellow)
The 1963 Malian Army repression of the Tuareg's rebellion, which was followed by the devastating drought of 1973-1974, marked the beginning of the first large-scale migration toward the Maghreb and sub-Saharian Africa of the Tuareg people. The younger members of the Tuareg's Diaspora abandoned the traditional shepherd's life and began a cycle of part-time jobs and unemployment. They will be, from now on, known as ishumar ( singular: ashamur), a berber adaptation of the French word chômeur (jobless).
Ba Rachid & his daughter
by the way, Ba Rachid is one of the most prominent singers in Rif ( North of Morocco).
Idir - Adrar Inu (Nouvel album 2013)
'adrar inu' means 'my mountain' is a reference to his native Kabylia more concretely 'Djurdjura' mountains.. witness of a great Civilization and a great History ... and yet they stand there silent and stoic ... This song is a tribute to his country and his native Kabylia.
Lyrics
Ruḥen akk iɣeblan tbedel ddunit felli
Y argaz-im baba-m s-wudem iṣṣeḥan
Ger medden ad nban mmi-m gara-nneɣ ad yili
Taftilt igenwan tuɣ-d yal amkan
Mi teslef i-lufan taḍsa deg udem-is tuli
Mmi-m abaḥan, ahya dheb areqman
Anraǧu deg bardan baba-k ma ad yebdu tikli
Djurdjura
Jan 1, 2013
Tin Hinan
Tin Hinan is the name given by the Tuareg to a 4th-century woman of prestige whose monumental tomb is located in the Sahara at Abalessa in the Ahaggar region of Algeria. The name means literally "she of the tents", but may be metaphorically
translated as "mother of the tribe"... or even "queen of
the camp" (the "camp" maybe referring to the group of tombs which
surround hers). She is sometimes referred to as "Queen of the Hoggar", and by the Tuareg as tamenoukalt which also means queen.
This is a woman of legend that we know today through oral Tuareg traditions describing her as "a woman irresistibly beautiful, large, with pretty face, fair complexion, huge and ardent eyes, all evoking both the beauty and power.
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