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Slate Magazine, CD Review >>
Festival in the Desert (World Village)
Click here to listen. Last year, Tartit, a group composed of Tuareg (Kel Tamashek) nomads from Mali, toured the United States; at every stop they re-created a traditional desert performance space, erecting makeshift tent walls onstage and sitting on carpets. All that was missing was the sand. In January 2003, they played much closer to home at the Third Festival in the Desert at Essakene, Mali, half a day's 4x4 ride from Timbuktu, performing an amazing song that to Western ears sounds like a series of coughs, gasps, ululations, and chatter. Malian performers—including former armed Tuareg rebels Tinariwen, blues guitar legend Ali Farka Touré, and the nation's great diva Oumou Sangaré—provide the album's highlights, but French group Lo'Jo's collaboration with Malian singer Django is haunting, and old rocker Robert Plant's blues jam seems right at home. 12/23/04 >> go there
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