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"Ichichila" from Ichichila
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CD review: Third-World Music Is Not Second Class

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Tartit
Ichichilla
Network 36.584
Dist. Harmonia Mundi

For this second disc, Tartit goes to Network. This Touareg group form Mali is well known in Europe because they tour there often.  From the images of the culture of their people, the images of the social and political situation which forced them into exile, Tartit has distilled a music which is at the same time profoundly rooted in the sands of history and nourished by a forced nomadism and hardship in their country. The group articulates their performance centering around the lutes (tehardant) of their griots, the percussion (tinde) of the women and the songs furnished essentially by these women. Touareg women have always had an important role in the assessment of musical expression; Tartit demonstrates this agin with power. The cohesion of the group is excellent. They alternate traditional songs and compositions; they add judiciously the sound of an electric guitar, discrete and efficacious, they transmit a heritage and sing about their country, the people, love, continuing in the traditional. Recording of voices, clapping of hands, simple percussion, the snapping of the lutes or guitar, Tartit delivers to all a vocal CD crammed full of emotions. 

-Etienne Bours 03/01/01
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