I was in Libya, South of Tripoli. I'll never forget when I heard Pink Floyd dark side of the moon playing in some guys hut. Music is the international language.
I was in Syria before the war, someone found out I was from Manchester in England and he was so excited to talk to someone about his favourite music artists, Badly Drawn Boy and The Smiths.
WOW Muslims playing Western instruments, isn't that harram.??? Or maybe it's hypocrisy. As far as I'm concerned it can stay in the god forsaken dessert.
@Bornaking the original commenter probably meant it as a figure of speech. Some people say "nature is metal", meaning it's intense or "hard-core". You may have already known this, but your reply led me to believe you did not so just trying to help out.
I listened to Afrique Victime by Mdou Moctar recently and it is genuinely one of the best rock albums I've ever listened to. Saharan rock is a fascinating genre!
It’s funny how a poor black kid from Seattle has been able to influence so many around the world many years after his death...I wonder what Jimi would think of all this if he were alive today.
Hed love it. And thats why we love Jimi. He influenced music because he was the music. I hope all those that come to love the music decide to become the music. Express yourself.
These are not "electric guitar bands" just because they have electric guitars in them. You can not compare the to great guitarists. They are nearly play rhythms on an electric guitar. BE SERIOUS!
As an Algerian i'am proud !!! The saharian's have a colorful mood a beautiful soul, each parts of Sahara has a different guitar arrangement, go to Janet !!! Go to Taghit go to Morocco nigeria, it's a beautiful culture of sharing loving that they translate in music. And every peace has a meaning a deep story every riff every rhythm and the language ... That has to be discovered !!!
Well Spoken! As an American Jazz Violinist who is Just discovering Islam, I hope to travel on foot across North Africa and get to Know the people and the Music.
@@gidd Now that I think about it, it would be better to setup universally funded and managed luthier shops, teaching wood and metal craft, using local materials to build beautiful guitars ( and other instruments) as instruments of peace, shops from different regions could "boast" about the quality if their instruments and annually, a great gathering would occur where music can be presented on them, culminating in a wonderful international jam.
Its not funny really what you just said .. dont you know did you not year the second the guy said that he also said 2 of his friends were killed because the mali forces view it as a weapon only because it opens up your mind freedom of speech and thought .. the governments of this world don’t want you smarter and taking there jobs away from them and stop being there mindless sheep slaves
Oh my GOSH I’m so glad someone has made a video of this like Saharan/North African music is definitely underrated and unfortunately dying slowly. I’m half Moroccan and the amazigh/Berber/ Touareg people make some fire music which has very little recognition. I really do hope this music is preserved and celebrated more.
If anyone has time they should really give Mdou Moctar's album 'Ilana (The Creator)' a listen. It's basically groovy, psychedelic rock fused with north african (Touareg)- inspired electric guitar sections. It's only 40 mins long so give it a listen cos it's sick af.
At 66 years old, I decided to embark on a new musical journey. I threw off the shackles of the western music of my youth and discovered new music from around the world. It is now a journey I will continue till my death.
Just turned 70 & I hear ya loud & clear. It's impossible even with my old battered body & a broken neck not to move to this pure & beautiful moving music.
Back in early 90s I was mad enough to hitchhike from Tunisia down through Algeria down to Tamanrasset then across Sahara onto Agadez in Niger and down to Niamey..while in Tamanrasset was invited to a Tuareg party and heard this takamba music for the first time, amazing sounds from what looked like primitive instruments..this is a truly majestic part of the world, the huge spaces and big skies were unforgettable, this newer sound still has that magical feel to it
This is a positive development. I always wondered why everyone in the Rolling Stone magazine ('Top 100 guitarists/bassists/artists/albums...) was from America or UK. It was as if the rest of the world was living under a rock. Forget about the Sahara desert, even musicians from non English speaking European countries like France or Germany rarely got mentioned in articles on pop/rock music.
Yes you had enormous rock scene in Europe in 60/70s (and especially NOW) and they are not globally known just because it's not UK/US. Fortunately internet corrected that in a way, Italian psych rock scene of 70s or German Krautrock finally got some recognition.
Well stop reading rolling stone magazine, African, Asian, non-english Europe have been mentioned a lot in other magazines and music programmes for decades.
I got to run sound for a Bombino show in NC. It was electrifying, and he had the audience completely hypnotized. After the show I hooked him up with a plug to buy some weed. He was the absolute nicest guy
When I was a teenager, I listened to a Putamayo collection called "Mali to Memphis" that highlighted many of the overlaping musical connections between the saraha and southern USA. Love this.
The first artist's playing reminded me of surf guitar, and then I remembered that it's innovator, Dick Dale, drew on his own Lebanese background for musical inspiration. I guess a lot of musical influences flow in circles rather than move in straight lines.
@Like New Maidservice thank you for replying and giving me those names. In all honesty, I heard a story about Jimi saying those words in '3rd stone from the sun' the day he heard of Dick Dale's passing. The electric guitar is here to stay... thanks again, mate.
"The Best Guitar Music Today is Coming from the Sahara Desert The music isn't being played by anyone. We don't know how this is possible. It comes from the desert. The dunes vibrate violently and fill the air with angry, distorted guitar tones, scaring away wildlife for miles. It totally rips. But nobody that we have sent to investigate closer have returned. The sonic blasting gets louder every night. We are afraid. Please send help."
@NoobMeister it's a joke, as in the way the video is titled it could be interpreted as the actual desert itself being what's producing the music Also r/wooosh
Absolutely and RUclips has been an effective mode of transmission for Tuareg music. Interestingly, RUclips started recommending me Tuareg music while I was checking out Arabic music by Kalthoum some five years back. And it never stopped lol. Tamikrest, Tinariwen, and Bombino are so very soothing. Tarwa'n'Tiniri from Morocco also deserves mention.
When I was in Africa, I was simply blown away by how freely and unreserved the people sing. No shy singers anywhere. We joined in and had a spiritual experience just being together and creating an overwhelming sound.
I love singing. Not many people do it. My great niece used to sing Disney songs as I drove her around in the back seat of my car. Her voice was beautiful, pitch perfect, and it included the expressions and inflections of tone, nearly exactly. It was in her two and three year old baby voice, but it was truly remarkable. No one had ever encouraged her to sing. She just did it because she loved it and she had an ear for it. But something happened when she started preschool. At least half of her bright spirit was quenched and she stopped singing. I couldn't even coax her to sing. I didn't understand what was going on, but she wouldn't speak of it. When I asked her mother, she said it was because her father screams at her. (I found her testimony highly unreliable in all sorts of matters ever since, but that was the first time she told me something that made no sense.) Her father is about the most laid back guy I've ever met. I've never seen him raise his voice or his temper over anything. I bet his girlfriends often complain that he's too laid back, as my niece always did. I couldn't picture him screaming at her, but I hadn't seen him for a long time, and never crossed his path, or even knew where he was living. I think singing is a natural thing for everybody, but it gets repressed. It's much more telling than speech, or in other words, revealing of the soul and spirituality. And your choice of songs says a lot about you. You could probably make a soul voiceprint of a person's life by having them choose and sing a song - one for every year to capture the time element.
@@KD-ib4qq That's mostly because people there aren't strangers. Moving into industrialized cities changed a lot about the way we once interacted with other people, we've become used to not knowing our neighbours names.
Sherrie Thomson nice observation hammer on off technique is also used very frequently with the traditional instruments as well such as “saz” or “baglama”.
I hear something deeper going on. Someone like Donald Fagan tried to do what they have built into the DNA of their musical tradition. Aside from Fagan's obsessive production and picking of half-improvised, impression-guided tracks, this music is great at using the tone of a guitar chord as a purely percussive and rhythmic feature, and then developing the melodies in the context of pitched rhythm. As you say, the hammer-on technique is natural for them. It only works with their syncopated hands-on drumming as embedded in the heartbeat of the music. I am reminded of the bongo on "Kings," ironically about Richard the Lionhearted and John the Usurper. Everyone hears the building medieval fanfare, but that bongo does it for me.
The first time I saw them was at the end of the Ali Farka Toure documentary, 'Ca Coule De Source', released in 1999. I taped it off of the now defunct World TV channel out of San Francisco. It may still be available from Amazon.Fr. w/o the English sub-titles.
I’m so happy that a channel like this exists to remind people that America isn’t the only place on the planet, there are different continents and countries with different cultures but MANY similarities, we seem to forget that
I had no idea about any of this, and I wouldn't have if it weren't for this video. Some comments are complaining about how little you sampled. But for me, I just became more curious about the music, and did my own research on it. I've since fallen in love with the sound. It's opened a new world of music for me, and inspired me in my own creative endeavors. So, let me just say thanks. This was a great video.
They aren't chaneling hendrix, dire straits or any other western musicians... they are chaneling the clasical 'oud'. I suggest listening to people such as Souad Massi and Hadi Azarpira
DudeRevolution yeah but consider the astetics they choose on the sound, the guitars and the guitar tones they use when they are using electric instruments
they're using rock instruments and guitar-wise, the sound of these western musicians while creating melodies and rhythms that are super non-western, it's amazing! They sound way more like Hamza El Din (the only artist I know of that they sound like XD) or some bollywood music I've heard then any western music, but this video is helping to share their music with the world, it's fine if a hardcore classic rock fan made the video and hear's the kind of music he loves in their music, musical interpretation is really up to the individual listener. Though your take on their sound is definitely objectively better XD. I also think it's really cool to point out that that rock-n-roll evolved from traditional African music so this is really the genre coming full circle, and that's super incredible! I think this movement of rock music in Africa is what rock needs to evolve further as a genre because as we all know, western rock-n-roll is pretty dead.
My son introduced me to Tinarawen several years ago. It blew me away that they had created a whole new guitar sound and all these bands are just incredible.
Dire Straits and Carlos Santana were hugely influential for the scene. But if you dig up folk field recordings from the pre-guitar days, you'll hear it's the same music. New instrument, old ideas.
The late Ali Farka Toure is the one who forefronted that 'now popular'' Mali type of guitar style years ago. He was also somewhat well known in the west respectively too. How you folks missed that or even neglected to mention his name is beyond me.
Dude, I had no idea there was this movement in the Sahara. This is so damn interesting I cant wait to hear more. Thanks for such a unique upload, good work, you made another sub baby.
My wife and I attended the Sahara Festival in Douz, Tunisia, in 2010. That’s where we were introduced to Taureg music. It is fascinating, Enthralling. But I was particularly captivated by the music of the Tunisian group Raïna Raï (The letter i has two dots) and the lead guitarist Lotfi Attar. His music is like listening to early Santana and Hendrix.
Val Taam I didn’t know that. None of the wiki sites about Lotfi Attar are in English. We met, chatted and ate with a good number of Taureg at the festival. None of them identified themselves as coming from any specific country. They talked a lot about their horses, which were magnificent and we marvelled at their scarfs (which they taught us how to wind around our heads and cover our faces) My scarf was way too short. We listened to their music in the evenings, mostly acoustic guitars. Raïna Raï especially appealed to me
@@MrBcuzbcuz yeah well north africans share a lot, we look the same and speak the same, Raina rai was one of the first rai (algerian pop) acts in the west of Algeria, much closer to Morocco. Touaregs in the south are nomads they don't believe in borders, some of the nicest people ever.. Glad to hear that you enjoyed the show
Val Taam Thank you for your response. We absolutely loved the festival in Douz. The open, friendly, welcoming atmosphere was a pure joy. Every time we open our pictures the memories flood back. My wife got a chance to sit on one of their beautifully bedecked, stately horses. The festival included camel races, horse races and a multitude of cultural events that we had never seen before. We stayed three days and would love to go back. We stayed at a BnB where the husband, a Touareg, cooked all the meals. Goat stew with couscous, Yummm! Are you Touareg?
@mark heyne how hypocritical. The player must've been collecting money for it for weeks or months, for them to just break it is nothing short of arrogant. Besides how are you going to claim to do something for god, when you're doing what god ordered you not to do, like hell it's his property
@mark heyne "Religious police" sounds like something out of an dystopian movie where a country controlled by state and religion use religion as a weapon to oppress the people. Kind of like those monks in Game of Thrones Season 6.
The whole feel of the video changed once I heard that. Insane to think about from my comfy little home in Canada. Art over fucking everything forever and ever.
So true. I went to Morocco about 4 years ago, fell in love with Tinariwen and a few similar sounding bands, and since then have had a huge appetite for Saharan rock. So glad someone else is feeling it.
@@yvngclaude They're just as arguably Malian, but it's a dipshit attempt at a correction because the whole point here is that Tuareg rock comes from a number of North African countries that share a common desert culture. The title of the video is literally "the best guitar music today is coming from the sahara desert". Which country is the Sahara? When trying to be a smartass, make sure you don't sound like a dumbass instead.
We found the past few years that we have Berber (Tuareg) ancestry. Bless these beautiful "cousins" & their moving music. As a 70 year old boomer who has experienced so many types of music I feel qualified to say how amazing & moving their music is. Lord protect them & provide for them to continue their pure way of life.
Yt algorithm has been getting on my nerves by recommending everything I've already watched. Finally, i got recommended this, and now i feel better. Awesome music. RUclips, please stop recommending stuff I've already watched. It's getting old.
I just talked to RUclips and he said he'll recommend whatever he damn well pleases. He didn't sound happy. Expect more Barry Manilow in your recommendations.
Out of all the algorithms in this world with google and Alexa and all that, RUclips is the best. I mean wtf??!! Thank you RUclips. This is absolutely amazing
I know what you mean ghaly , but if you listen verry close you will hear the resentments . And its a fact that blues commes from africa and the middle east . Pardon my bad spelling Please . Greetings from belgium .
Ali Farka Toure, you cant talk about music from this region without mentioning him, sadly now dead. I’ve been listening to his music for over 30 years after I heard him on the radio, I’ve been lucky enough to see him on numerous occasions everywhere from Ronnie Scott’s club in London to Paris and Madrid, mesmerising.
you mentioning MFSC made trace back my way to this video over the course of a couple years: Alex Jones Memes > Jones Grips > Death Grips > Music from Saharan Cellphones > This Video. RUclips recommendations sure can bring you a lot of interesting stuff.
I'm from Ireland, and I discovered all of this stuff 15 years ago simply because newspapers and magazines wrote about it and BBC and RTE played this stuff. Glad to see America finally catching up, but I wonder if Bandsplaining's next video of 2020 is going to be about how much amazing rock's coming out of Seattle:-)
Music is first a personal expression and experience. It is beautiful to see people worldwide making their music, whatever it is, because music is in us as it is in other creatures. Bringing it forth is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!
Just saw Etran de l'air last night here in Vienna at FLUC. They weren't mentioned in this video, but certainly belong on anyone's list of Saharan guitar music. A fantastic show and band! And Mdou Moctar is coming next month!
Right. Add them to the list. I saw them in Chicago last night. Hypnotic. Alive. Irresistible for dancing. Intensely repetitive but nobody cared because everyone was taken to another place. Repetitive, garage band, three cord marathons. And nobody cared. Everyone was in a trance.
The beauty of these people. To watch this music played live by the artists in the areas they live would be a great blessing. NPR's Higher Ground was my first exposure to some of these artists. Global live concerts streaming on line would be awesome.
A lot of it is released on Sahel Sounds, including the two albums shown with Music from Saharan Cellphones. Group Inerane and Bombino debuted on Sublime Frequencies.
I remember when i was 15 seeing Songhoy Blues play on Later...Live with jools Holland, a live music show we have here in the UK. I was blown away by the style and sound and how cool the band was. This music is as you rightly say, some of the most exciting music being made today.
finally, they get a mention! Can't believe they weren't included in the video, as they're pretty big! probably 2nd only to tinariwen, from this video. I saw them at green man festival, and they smashed it so hard, they were immediately invited again the next year, where i i saw them again, and they smashed it again! Had the crowd eating out of their hands both times!
Fascinating. Perhaps that's what we're all missing in the "West" now. No rebellion. These guys don't care about the "guitar Olympics", they're just getting down in the dirt and playing some great grooves.
Me seeing them with familiar electric guitars and Marshall amps is like them seeing me riding a camel..it highlights our similarities and bypasses the differences immediately. That was a wonderful video. I sincerely thank you 🙏
It is hard to deny that they are doing it better than us, with our instruments. I hear most prominently how our music is rhythmically immature by comparison. When time signatures change, they play the chaos naturally, and resolve it in a way odd to our Western ear. Very pleasing to an ear for structural complexity.
@@mboyer68 Ok, I guess I have heard so much of "our" American and British rock music, and there is something refreshing about this. I love the new age bluegrass and Americana sound, say Sarah Jarosz, but with electric guitar and bass, I am more drawn to this than any recycled 1-4-5- familiar blues progression. Just saying that this is a new dimension to explore, with the 1960's standard instrumentation: Guitar, bass and amp. They do the drums a bit different. I also like that national borders and the culture of different people are kept apart. I hate modern country music, but Sarah and someone like Slaid Cleeves are great inspirations. And just saying American is not enough.
@@mboyer68 Apologies, I realize that I wasn't being fully clear in what I meant. I was referring to the overall North African Blues SCENE, a thing which has been rendered non-existent in the West, because of media manipulation-signal boosting, mass communications and the internet monetization scheme. I still listen to American bands, in my native language, but Seattle was the last organic scene, and look what happened to Austin. I can't speak on the local UK music climate, but it is obvious that culture is declining with simplification and automated replication, the best profit-seeking strategies. A studio session guitar player/record collector I met in Wilmington, NC, in 2012 told me about it, about the time when working in Austin, playing on some well known country-pop hits in the late 1980's/early 1990's which you would recognize. I mentioned Slaid Cleeves, and we were talking tech money killing local music scenes 5 minutes later. He said, clear in my mind as when he said it, that the tech money was like a big baby Huey, and it came and sat on the real, local party in every spot it could find one, from raves to Burning Man. He also is involved with WFMU and said that "You New Yorker's sure do know your music." There is no local American scene, or UK for that matter, that I know of, with as much life and real local flavor as this music, in my opinion. Not a contest of Nations, but of how music is made or manufactured in different ones.
Ask not what you can do for the blues ,but what the blues can do for you , set you free , the best music comes from the worst places . Love seeing how the blues has made the world a little smaller, may peace come to the east by way of the blues...
Yes, and when you say "The La Brea Tar Pits" you are saying "The The Tar Tar Pits" The Los Angeles Angles baseball team " would have been, yup, "The The Angeles Angels" had the Angels left Animal Slime, but I digress.
No, In most eastern music the instruments are right handed only and we tell left handed players to just flip the instrument and leave the strings flipped cause it gives you your own flair
This is Berbère music being played electric dear... Not much Hendrix or Dire Strait except the look of Fender guitars. In north Africa Magreb in the 90 there was Raï music,same as here,,north african folk music going electric. It's not the new wage of virtuoso guitar player,, but cool and refreshing to hear Berbère music going electric. Thanks for the video,,its cool and i was not aware and thanks for the references and names of the bands. Regards...
@nynetynyne It is new to you,,but it must be a fews thousands years they play that music... Go listen in 1968 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stone made an album with Berbère musicians... Same music but acoustic... And there is a multitude of classical Berbère records you can find.. It is no real cutting edge but certainly refreshing and inspiring to listen,,very cool.! 😎 Regards..
I know you probably won't see this, but I can't thank you enough for this video. You introduced me to this wonderful music, which really helped me get through some hard times. I just saw Mdou Moctar last night, and it blew my mind. I'm also going to see Bombino next month, which I can't wait for. It's crazy how you just randomly click on some RUclips video one night and find your favorite music from a culture I didn't even know existed.
@@lexingtonconcord8751 Actually, no less a personage than *Eric Clapton* said this in a Billboard interview last year, when he was told about declining guitar sales. He was probably half-kidding (he did also say, "maybe...") but he said it.
I found a duo from Mali called Amadou & Mariam about a year ago and since I've been looking for something like it. Tinariwen somehow have that same melodic rhytm that blows my mind. I can highly recommend anybody who likes Tinariwen to listen to Amadou & Mariam if they don't already.
These are the true Kings of the desert, I have heard a lot of blues all my life being from Mississippi and New Orleans my ears do not lie to me I know about lightning Hopkins Johnny Lee Hooker muddy Waters howling Wolf BB King, Jimi Hendrix, they're guitar playing is in the top 10 they have a message in the music that they sing their music has soul is of the heart, Kings of the desert, the rhythm and structure of the rhythm the downbeat and the upbeat, a used four guitar players two percussion players that's a band totally awesome, I am going to call Mississippi and Louisiana so they can listen to the desert blues peace out God bless.
The Tuareg music, culture and history is hugely inspirational, zGod bless these hugely talented musicians with this great Tuareg blues guitar. Its so original,. I really hope much more gigs come to the UK and im sure it will be really big. Theres so much great creativity and great colaberations are possible with some imagination and im imagining electric violin, indian drums, shennai, sitar, electric sitar or whatever else. Ive been listening to these young girls playing music, one of whom has a 7 stringed electric violin and she is so talented. With rap, drill, reggae, folk or whatever fits the sky is the limit it just needs to be heard at festivals and artists like Robert Plant, Nigel Kennedy and john MacClaughlin have the great talent and a lifetime of genius to inspire and bring it more mainstream to western ears. The music industry is 80% stale with little new sounds and imagination and even with Ginger Baker and Paul Macca going to Nigeria 50 or so years ago the music mafia kept it too safe and boring rather than pushing things like rap artists like Missy Elliott and Prince. Thats just my take onn it, what do I know?
I wouldn't call it "The Best" guitar music but it is good to see people from other walks of life enjoying what the guitar and music in general has to offer to the human soul!! Excellent video!!
It is 3:30 in the morning I woke up with a headache, got up to get some water, turn on my tablet and found this!!! Downloaded a bunch of these great artists on ITunes and guess what? My headache is gone! Thank you!
I take it you're not much of a connoisseur of western guitar music? I think maybe whats missing is your exploration of music. 'Western' covers millions and millions of guitarists so i really wouldnt be too sure. Do You mean... on the tv?
@nynetynyne yes you're right there hasn't been a single guitar note played on the television since the 90's. I've definitely never seen a life festival performance of some shitty current band on a television And I hear that if you try to watch MTV or any of the music channels now its just a old crusty man sat in a silent room crying. Funny thing is that I don't personally watch t.v. but my point still stands, radio, RUclips algorithms, reccomended Spotify stuff etc etc Isn't exactly gonna show you who's currently fucking radical at guitar. Surely we all know that you have to dig deep to find true art? I can't even begin to entertain the idea that all western guitarists are shit. That's just plain wrong. Music is subjective.. I get it. But blanket statements like that are just plain ignorant and childish.. and also wrong. Haha.
Forgive my ignorance of these people of this area of the world.I knew about many being nomadic and tough human beings.Had no idea about their music culture.I’m blown away and in love with their music.I need to learn more about these fascinating human beings.Love from West Virginia,USA!
Every time an eastern a third world or eastern musician embraces a Fender, a Gibson, a Martin or any great American guitar it brings about a whole new world of sounds and player technique possibilities. This is because Muslims jews, Saudi Arabians or any musicians in these countries blend their cultural music with ours in North America. As such, they are expanding the world of music into sonic adventures that are twisting our ear to hear their way of music on our(American) guitars which is amazing to hear and most welcome if we want new forms of music to grow! Just listen to Bob Marley when he recorded on a Gibson. To him it was a guitar he expressed himself on but listen to his songs with that guitar. A Gibson electric brought into Reggae? Fucking brilliant!!
I was in Libya, South of Tripoli. I'll never forget when I heard Pink Floyd dark side of the moon playing in some guys hut. Music is the international language.
I was in Syria before the war, someone found out I was from Manchester in England and he was so excited to talk to someone about his favourite music artists, Badly Drawn Boy and The Smiths.
@@LordBillington42 Manchester is like an international language. It’s crazy how many people know this city
Feel sorry for them.
I was in Istanbul when it was Constantinople.
~I was in Egypt when 'Billie Jean' was played on boom boxes carried on camels, even in small villages~
This is what the internet was made for.
Yep. And the pain these guys have lived through. I pray for their peace.
KR. YASHVARDHAN SINGH SOLANKI too bad the advertizers took over
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@@adelaidemarie need to pay the bills, pay staff, so you need advertising. RUclips is still the best.
WOW Muslims playing Western instruments, isn't that harram.??? Or maybe it's hypocrisy. As far as I'm concerned it can stay in the god forsaken dessert.
Theres something incredibly metal about oppressed rebell guitarists living in the desert.
Bornaking if that’s what you believe about metal, then you don’t really get metal.
@Bornaking sit down child.
@Bornaking shut up and eat your porridge kid
@Bornaking the original commenter probably meant it as a figure of speech. Some people say "nature is metal", meaning it's intense or "hard-core". You may have already known this, but your reply led me to believe you did not so just trying to help out.
Or punk..
I listened to Afrique Victime by Mdou Moctar recently and it is genuinely one of the best rock albums I've ever listened to. Saharan rock is a fascinating genre!
"The guitar was seen as a symbol of rebellion..." Damn straight.
hahaha. Fuckin' eh
…for some reason.
Sorry.... Dire Straight! :-D
Its list the rebellion status in the west now.. people have them as part of the decor now.
the electric guitar has sound of The cry of suffering for this the Touareg expresses their suffering with it
It’s funny how a poor black kid from Seattle has been able to influence so many around the world many years after his death...I wonder what Jimi would think of all this if he were alive today.
He would say"really groovy"
I know its crazy
Hed love it. And thats why we love Jimi. He influenced music because he was the music. I hope all those that come to love the music decide to become the music. Express yourself.
Tbf he was the one influenced by them at first
@@Absurdologist yup!
"when I die, just keep playing the records" - Hendrix
We will, Jimi. All around the world we will.
These are not "electric guitar bands" just because they have electric guitars in them. You can not compare the to great guitarists. They are nearly play rhythms on an electric guitar. BE SERIOUS!
Dr. J.S. Great-House lmao music purists are weird
Dr. J.S. Great-House huh?
@@SingleWing ruclips.net/video/vJ8Oq35T4ME/видео.html
Actually listen to Bombino, the samples in this video are not representative.
why am I crying?
As an Algerian i'am proud !!! The saharian's have a colorful mood a beautiful soul, each parts of Sahara has a different guitar arrangement, go to Janet !!! Go to Taghit go to Morocco nigeria, it's a beautiful culture of sharing loving that they translate in music. And every peace has a meaning a deep story every riff every rhythm and the language ... That has to be discovered !!!
Yes. Would love to travel there and soak up all of this great music.
Well Spoken! As an American Jazz Violinist who is Just discovering Islam, I hope to travel on foot across North Africa and get to Know the people and the Music.
Love DZ from Russia
@@jackwilloughby239 : you are welcome here, black panters came to hide in Algeria when they were opressed …
Tahya hena
I just recently discovered Etran De L'Aïr and the channel Sahel Sounds and have been obsessed with this rabbit hole I've fallen down in.
The fact the governments see guitars as symbols of rebellion, makes me want to ship free guitars to every corner of the planet
Do it !
Fuck ya!
gimme
why not do it
@@gidd Now that I think about it, it would be better to setup universally funded and managed luthier shops, teaching wood and metal craft, using local materials to build beautiful guitars ( and other instruments) as instruments of peace, shops from different regions could "boast" about the quality if their instruments and annually, a great gathering would occur where music can be presented on them, culminating in a wonderful international jam.
Yes it's true. The Sahara rocks! Fender needs to design a new guitar, the "Saharacaster".
Yes. Sandcaster. Camelcaster. Gibson Djinn. Sandstormer. Ovation Oasis.
@@garyventure8442 i would like the sandcaster.
I can dig it
I would buy
Where can I get one #takemymoney
"The Guitar is seen as a weapon" Amen to that!
so punk 😂
has a real Woody Guthrie feel to it
Its not funny really what you just said .. dont you know did you not year the second the guy said that he also said 2 of his friends were killed because the mali forces view it as a weapon only because it opens up your mind freedom of speech and thought .. the governments of this world don’t want you smarter and taking there jobs away from them and stop being there mindless sheep slaves
So is a cricket bat.
He actually said "symbol of rebellion"
#1 - Mdou Moctar
#2 - Tinariwen
#3 - Bombino
#4 - Group Inerane
#5 - Afous D'afous
#6 - Tamikrest
#7 - Group Anmataff
#8 - Les Filles de Illighadad
Thank you for info
Also '' imahren from algeria 🇩🇿
@@montenmusic imahran ❤️🔥🇩🇿
Also Tasuta N Imal from Morocco
@@majiddjeri1934 also tinariwen
from algeria and mali
Oh my GOSH I’m so glad someone has made a video of this like Saharan/North African music is definitely underrated and unfortunately dying slowly. I’m half Moroccan and the amazigh/Berber/ Touareg people make some fire music which has very little recognition. I really do hope this music is preserved and celebrated more.
If anyone has time they should really give Mdou Moctar's album 'Ilana (The Creator)' a listen. It's basically groovy, psychedelic rock fused with north african (Touareg)- inspired electric guitar sections. It's only 40 mins long so give it a listen cos it's sick af.
Wow. Had a quick listen. Sounds great.
Loved it. Opened doors in my mind I didn't know I had.
Just checked this out - worth a listen 🙏🏼
Thanks for this
It's beautiful!
At 66 years old, I decided to embark on a new musical journey. I threw off the shackles of the western music of my youth and discovered new music from around the world. It is now a journey I will continue till my death.
The internet truly is a blessing for discovery
Just turned 70 & I hear ya loud & clear. It's impossible even with my old battered body & a broken neck not to move to this pure & beautiful moving music.
Back in early 90s I was mad enough to hitchhike from Tunisia down through Algeria down to Tamanrasset then across Sahara onto Agadez in Niger and down to Niamey..while in Tamanrasset was invited to a Tuareg party and heard this takamba music for the first time, amazing sounds from what looked like primitive instruments..this is a truly majestic part of the world, the huge spaces and big skies were unforgettable, this newer sound still has that magical feel to it
The only place left where guitar is real rebellion, and the ultimate price is paid for it . Incredible.
@Modern Spirit And you don't. Stick to goats mate.
@Modern Spirit lol, its people like you who try to bring others down
All GOVERNMENTS kill their own.
Too bad the music is so boring like all middle eastern music
Ummm..ok sure..
Man these desert vibes are such a breath of fresh air.
David Sanchez Really? That’s a very strong statement...
@@javiceres They do. Slavery still exists over in Africa, is that really so hard to understand or look up on the internet?
This is a positive development. I always wondered why everyone in the Rolling Stone magazine ('Top 100 guitarists/bassists/artists/albums...) was from America or UK. It was as if the rest of the world was living under a rock. Forget about the Sahara desert, even musicians from non English speaking European countries like France or Germany rarely got mentioned in articles on pop/rock music.
Yes you had enormous rock scene in Europe in 60/70s (and especially NOW) and they are not globally known just because it's not UK/US. Fortunately internet corrected that in a way, Italian psych rock scene of 70s or German Krautrock finally got some recognition.
Well stop reading rolling stone magazine, African, Asian, non-english Europe have been mentioned a lot in other magazines and music programmes for decades.
just look at Japan for a flourishing rock/metal music scene that's being mostly ignored by western press/shows.
@@SocialNetwooky the same with Turkish rock/psych. Japan also had a huge psych rock scene too
To be fair the Rolling Stones magazine is only read in the uk and us really
I'm very happy that this ended up in my recommended
Robert Plant has been going on and on about this since the mid 70s.... I should have checked it out a long time ago
Jimmy Boredom Really?
@@SharkRecordFilms yeah. Music from this region has influenced him since led zeppelin
@@jimmyboredom3519 Kashmir was an obvious influence
AcousticAsraff Kashmir is like 6000km away from the Sahara, though...
@@SamWasHere1977 listen to Carry Fire too
I got to run sound for a Bombino show in NC. It was electrifying, and he had the audience completely hypnotized. After the show I hooked him up with a plug to buy some weed. He was the absolute nicest guy
SGrulez1 dude no way that’s so cool!!!
I wonder what will happen when Bombino discovers LSD.
@@nataliezementbeisser1492 I'm sure we would not be his first exposure lol
When I was a teenager, I listened to a Putamayo collection called "Mali to Memphis" that highlighted many of the overlaping musical connections between the saraha and southern USA. Love this.
The first artist's playing reminded me of surf guitar, and then I remembered that it's innovator, Dick Dale, drew on his own Lebanese background for musical inspiration. I guess a lot of musical influences flow in circles rather than move in straight lines.
never hear surf music again
@Like New Maidservice thank you for replying and giving me those names.
In all honesty, I heard a story about Jimi saying those words in '3rd stone from the sun' the day he heard of Dick Dale's passing.
The electric guitar is here to stay...
thanks again, mate.
Well said
@@georgelumsden4484 I loved the campy videos of king gizzard and the lizard wizard. watched it all night.
Mark speer from khruangbin is the best in the world right now imo
"The Best Guitar Music Today is Coming from the Sahara Desert
The music isn't being played by anyone. We don't know how this is possible. It comes from the desert. The dunes vibrate violently and fill the air with angry, distorted guitar tones, scaring away wildlife for miles. It totally rips. But nobody that we have sent to investigate closer have returned. The sonic blasting gets louder every night. We are afraid. Please send help."
hahahajahajajaha
@NoobMeister it's a joke, as in the way the video is titled it could be interpreted as the actual desert itself being what's producing the music
Also r/wooosh
Which SCP is this
@NoobMeister ur fun at parties huh? Not!
Welcome to Nightvale
I like how this channel is covering parts of the world that aren't often discussed music wise
It's very interesting
Tis Dandy👌
Absolutely and RUclips has been an effective mode of transmission for Tuareg music. Interestingly, RUclips started recommending me Tuareg music while I was checking out Arabic music by Kalthoum some five years back. And it never stopped lol. Tamikrest, Tinariwen, and Bombino are so very soothing. Tarwa'n'Tiniri from Morocco also deserves mention.
When I was in Africa, I was simply blown away by how freely and unreserved the people sing. No shy singers anywhere. We joined in and had a spiritual experience just being together and creating an overwhelming sound.
I'd love to witness this first hand....it seems the culture of looking cool for strangers hasn't pervaded Africa yet.
I love singing. Not many people do it. My great niece used to sing Disney songs as I drove her around in the back seat of my car. Her voice was beautiful, pitch perfect, and it included the expressions and inflections of tone, nearly exactly. It was in her two and three year old baby voice, but it was truly remarkable. No one had ever encouraged her to sing. She just did it because she loved it and she had an ear for it.
But something happened when she started preschool. At least half of her bright spirit was quenched and she stopped singing. I couldn't even coax her to sing.
I didn't understand what was going on, but she wouldn't speak of it. When I asked her mother, she said it was because her father screams at her. (I found her testimony highly unreliable in all sorts of matters ever since, but that was the first time she told me something that made no sense.) Her father is about the most laid back guy I've ever met. I've never seen him raise his voice or his temper over anything. I bet his girlfriends often complain that he's too laid back, as my niece always did. I couldn't picture him screaming at her, but I hadn't seen him for a long time, and never crossed his path, or even knew where he was living.
I think singing is a natural thing for everybody, but it gets repressed. It's much more telling than speech, or in other words, revealing of the soul and spirituality. And your choice of songs says a lot about you.
You could probably make a soul voiceprint of a person's life by having them choose and sing a song - one for every year to capture the time element.
@@KD-ib4qq That's mostly because people there aren't strangers. Moving into industrialized cities changed a lot about the way we once interacted with other people, we've become used to not knowing our neighbours names.
where in Africa where you if i may ask ?
@@lailakonstantinos137 Mostly north western parts of the sahara
They’ve mastered the hammer on/off and it matches the vocal techniques they use.
Someone who understands music 👌👍
Sherrie Thomson nice observation hammer on off technique is also used very frequently with the traditional instruments as well such as “saz” or “baglama”.
And...,
@@mete1099 I was just going to say, it reminds me of how the Oud is played, mostly focused on melodies rather than chords XD
I hear something deeper going on. Someone like Donald Fagan tried to do what they have built into the DNA of their musical tradition. Aside from Fagan's obsessive production and picking of half-improvised, impression-guided tracks, this music is great at using the tone of a guitar chord as a purely percussive and rhythmic feature, and then developing the melodies in the context of pitched rhythm. As you say, the hammer-on technique is natural for them. It only works with their syncopated hands-on drumming as embedded in the heartbeat of the music. I am reminded of the bongo on "Kings," ironically about Richard the Lionhearted and John the Usurper. Everyone hears the building medieval fanfare, but that bongo does it for me.
Finally people are recognizing this.
My mind was BLOWN the first time I heard Tinariwen
@aofire Didn't he steal all his stuff from NMAS?
Brother Tinariwens sounds familiar like our tribal music ...
The first time I saw them was at the end of the Ali Farka Toure documentary, 'Ca Coule De Source', released in 1999. I taped it off of the now defunct World TV channel out of San Francisco. It may still be available from Amazon.Fr. w/o the English sub-titles.
what mind?
Probably because you’ve taken to much acid
I’m so happy that a channel like this exists to remind people that America isn’t the only place on the planet, there are different continents and countries with different cultures but MANY similarities, we seem to forget that
Most of us know there a world out there with different cultures, were have you been?
*Music: The Universal Language*
actually no
Is an universal activity not an universal language
You are thinking of Mathematics.
Very cliche but very true
@@anonsandifer507 music is mathematics
www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-and-music
It's great to see these beautiful and amazing people merging with the electric guitar when it has fallen from grace in western hands.
I had no idea about any of this, and I wouldn't have if it weren't for this video.
Some comments are complaining about how little you sampled.
But for me, I just became more curious about the music, and did my own research on it.
I've since fallen in love with the sound.
It's opened a new world of music for me, and inspired me in my own creative endeavors.
So, let me just say thanks. This was a great video.
@CarGnome I was just about to write basically the exact same comment!
Ali Farke Toure was my introduction to this type of music from Mali...
same
he's amazing, he forged my blues rock knowledge in my teens along all the other american blues legends.
I literally clicked on this video to try and find his name somewhere either in the video or in the comments!
Fun fact: Hendrix actually visited Morocco in 1969, so the connection isn't AS random as it may seem.
a lot of the american counterculture figures visited morocco in the 60s.just to name a few burrough, kerouac,th stone..
@@deanjgn666666 Good haschich
@@penzman what's is?
He visited morocco than what there’s no tuareg ppl in morocco
Theres tuareg in the south of Morocco
They aren't chaneling hendrix, dire straits or any other western musicians... they are chaneling the clasical 'oud'. I suggest listening to people such as Souad Massi and Hadi Azarpira
DudeRevolution yeah but consider the astetics they choose on the sound, the guitars and the guitar tones they use when they are using electric instruments
And what is the band in scene starting on this sketch?
Thank you man, I was looking for this sound since I was a kid! Cheers
they're using rock instruments and guitar-wise, the sound of these western musicians while creating melodies and rhythms that are super non-western, it's amazing! They sound way more like Hamza El Din (the only artist I know of that they sound like XD) or some bollywood music I've heard then any western music, but this video is helping to share their music with the world, it's fine if a hardcore classic rock fan made the video and hear's the kind of music he loves in their music, musical interpretation is really up to the individual listener. Though your take on their sound is definitely objectively better XD.
I also think it's really cool to point out that that rock-n-roll evolved from traditional African music so this is really the genre coming full circle, and that's super incredible!
I think this movement of rock music in Africa is what rock needs to evolve further as a genre because as we all know, western rock-n-roll is pretty dead.
man, that’s crazy, but I don’t remember askin.
this makes me proud to be a human being
My son introduced me to Tinarawen several years ago. It blew me away that they had created a whole new guitar sound and all these bands are just incredible.
I guess everyone in the desert has a Dire Straits album.
They need a lot of water of love
Dire Straits and Carlos Santana were hugely influential for the scene. But if you dig up folk field recordings from the pre-guitar days, you'll hear it's the same music. New instrument, old ideas.
Sultan of Swings must have really got their attention.
I bless the rains....
i guess they were sick of the governments getting money for nothing
The late Ali Farka Toure is the one who forefronted that 'now popular'' Mali type of guitar style years ago.
He was also somewhat well known in the west respectively too. How you folks missed that or even neglected to mention his name is beyond me.
Yep. He won a Grammy in '94. People have been sleeping.
they did mention mali once but not enuf
Thx
The best guitar player ever
Or boubacar traoré
Dude, I had no idea there was this movement in the Sahara. This is so damn interesting I cant wait to hear more. Thanks for such a unique upload, good work, you made another sub baby.
I met Bombino at Floydfest in VA right after one of his workshop sets. A very pure soul
My wife and I attended the Sahara Festival in Douz, Tunisia, in 2010. That’s where we were introduced to Taureg music. It is fascinating, Enthralling. But I was particularly captivated by the music of the Tunisian group Raïna Raï (The letter i has two dots) and the lead guitarist Lotfi Attar. His music is like listening to early Santana and Hendrix.
Except Raina Rai is Algerian
@@arxiii a desert dweller
Val Taam I didn’t know that. None of the wiki sites about Lotfi Attar are in English. We met, chatted and ate with a good number of Taureg at the festival. None of them identified themselves as coming from any specific country. They talked a lot about their horses, which were magnificent and we marvelled at their scarfs (which they taught us how to wind around our heads and cover our faces) My scarf was way too short.
We listened to their music in the evenings, mostly acoustic guitars. Raïna Raï especially appealed to me
@@MrBcuzbcuz yeah well north africans share a lot, we look the same and speak the same, Raina rai was one of the first rai (algerian pop) acts in the west of Algeria, much closer to Morocco. Touaregs in the south are nomads they don't believe in borders, some of the nicest people ever.. Glad to hear that you enjoyed the show
Val Taam Thank you for your response. We absolutely loved the festival in Douz. The open, friendly, welcoming atmosphere was a pure joy. Every time we open our pictures the memories flood back. My wife got a chance to sit on one of their beautifully bedecked, stately horses. The festival included camel races, horse races and a multitude of cultural events that we had never seen before. We stayed three days and would love to go back. We stayed at a BnB where the husband, a Touareg, cooked all the meals. Goat stew with couscous, Yummm! Are you Touareg?
We forget the freedom we have here. Imagine band members disappearing for playing the guitar!
@mark heyne how hypocritical. The player must've been collecting money for it for weeks or months, for them to just break it is nothing short of arrogant. Besides how are you going to claim to do something for god, when you're doing what god ordered you not to do, like hell it's his property
@mark heyne "Religious police" sounds like something out of an dystopian movie where a country controlled by state and religion use religion as a weapon to oppress the people. Kind of like those monks in Game of Thrones Season 6.
The whole feel of the video changed once I heard that. Insane to think about from my comfy little home in Canada. Art over fucking everything forever and ever.
That's the Religion Of Peace™ for ya.
Well "The Edge" should at least be locked up. Obviously in a soundproof cell.
I met some of the guys in Tinariwen in Austin during a festival after their set. They stole the night. Amazing people 💯
Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in it introduced me to Mdou Moctar. Great film!
Music knows no boundaries, it's rather for us the living souls to just appreciate it!
So true. I went to Morocco about 4 years ago, fell in love with Tinariwen and a few similar sounding bands, and since then have had a huge appetite for Saharan rock. So glad someone else is feeling it.
Tinariwen is an algerian band bruh
@@yvngclaude They're just as arguably Malian, but it's a dipshit attempt at a correction because the whole point here is that Tuareg rock comes from a number of North African countries that share a common desert culture. The title of the video is literally "the best guitar music today is coming from the sahara desert". Which country is the Sahara? When trying to be a smartass, make sure you don't sound like a dumbass instead.
We found the past few years that we have Berber (Tuareg) ancestry. Bless these beautiful "cousins" & their moving music. As a 70 year old boomer who has experienced so many types of music I feel qualified to say how amazing & moving their music is. Lord protect them & provide for them to continue their pure way of life.
Yt algorithm has been getting on my nerves by recommending everything I've already watched. Finally, i got recommended this, and now i feel better. Awesome music.
RUclips, please stop recommending stuff I've already watched. It's getting old.
and stop recommending stuff for the 4th-60th time that I didn't want to look at.
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music seriously! How many times do i have to ignore it smh. Over and over
I just talked to RUclips and he said he'll recommend whatever he damn well pleases. He didn't sound happy. Expect more Barry Manilow in your recommendations.
@@1972vulture thank you! Lol. I will enjoy the new recommendations.
Out of all the algorithms in this world with google and Alexa and all that, RUclips is the best. I mean wtf??!! Thank you RUclips. This is absolutely amazing
Doesnt sound very bluesy to me, sounds like its a genre of its own.
Start listening to some of the bands. There are so many connections to classic blues
I know what you mean ghaly , but if you listen verry close you will hear the resentments . And its a fact that blues commes from africa and the middle east . Pardon my bad spelling Please . Greetings from belgium .
Yes and it’s called ghnawi
There are definitely some pentatonic licks in there.
It is like upside down blues with the riffs doing from high notes to low notes.
I had the best experience listening to their music live at the Taragalt festival in the Moroccan desert, the music is just so inspiring !
Ali Farka Toure, you cant talk about music from this region without mentioning him, sadly now dead. I’ve been listening to his music for over 30 years after I heard him on the radio, I’ve been lucky enough to see him on numerous occasions everywhere from Ronnie Scott’s club in London to Paris and Madrid, mesmerising.
“Music from Saharan cell phones” (get got starts playing in the distance)
25 8, twelve gauge punk weight!!!
GETGETGETGETGOTGOTGOTGOT
you mentioning MFSC made trace back my way to this video over the course of a couple years: Alex Jones Memes > Jones Grips > Death Grips > Music from Saharan Cellphones > This Video. RUclips recommendations sure can bring you a lot of interesting stuff.
Music on cellphones transferd via Bluetooth. Ahh my high school days
Info warrior jack the hacker
I'm from Ireland, and I discovered all of this stuff 15 years ago simply because newspapers and magazines wrote about it and BBC and RTE played this stuff. Glad to see America finally catching up, but I wonder if Bandsplaining's next video of 2020 is going to be about how much amazing rock's coming out of Seattle:-)
They can do a report on how this new young fella, Kurt Cobain, is gunna make amazing music for many decades to come.
Jonathan Hatch I’m from Seattle and live here still. Definitely agree with this
Music is first a personal expression and experience. It is beautiful to see people worldwide making their music, whatever it is, because music is in us as it is in other creatures. Bringing it forth is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!
If only Pete Seeger were alive to see the world's musicians connecting with ease today✌️ 😭♥️
Just saw Etran de l'air last night here in Vienna at FLUC. They weren't mentioned in this video, but certainly belong on anyone's list of Saharan guitar music.
A fantastic show and band!
And Mdou Moctar is coming next month!
Right. Add them to the list. I saw them in Chicago last night. Hypnotic. Alive. Irresistible for dancing. Intensely repetitive but nobody cared because everyone was taken to another place. Repetitive, garage band, three cord marathons. And nobody cared. Everyone was in a trance.
Saw Mdou Moctar live as an opener for tame impala, great show!
Wow! That must've been a life-alteringly incredible show
@@ghazanferabbas7688 it was!
I saw him last year in Joshua Tree and absolutely blown away! Pure blues, pure emotion. My heart hurts when he plays
That’s was the greatest unexpected experience to happen in my life
I went to that show specifically to see him! I had seen Tame Impala before 😂
The beauty of these people. To watch this music played live by the artists in the areas they live would be a great blessing. NPR's Higher Ground was my first exposure to some of these artists. Global live concerts streaming on line would be awesome.
A lot of it is released on Sahel Sounds, including the two albums shown with Music from Saharan Cellphones. Group Inerane and Bombino debuted on Sublime Frequencies.
I remember when i was 15 seeing Songhoy Blues play on Later...Live with jools Holland, a live music show we have here in the UK. I was blown away by the style and sound and how cool the band was. This music is as you rightly say, some of the most exciting music being made today.
finally, they get a mention! Can't believe they weren't included in the video, as they're pretty big! probably 2nd only to tinariwen, from this video.
I saw them at green man festival, and they smashed it so hard, they were immediately invited again the next year, where i i saw them again, and they smashed it again!
Had the crowd eating out of their hands both times!
Excellent video! Thank You :)
Fascinating. Perhaps that's what we're all missing in the "West" now. No rebellion. These guys don't care about the "guitar Olympics", they're just getting down in the dirt and playing some great grooves.
Declan McKenna is what you need.
No rebellion on the west? Check out Machine Girl's album BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR...
@@chaotickreg7024 There is a difference between actual rebellion and angsty teens.
Me seeing them with familiar electric guitars and Marshall amps is like them seeing me riding a camel..it highlights our similarities and bypasses the differences immediately. That was a wonderful video. I sincerely thank you 🙏
It is hard to deny that they are doing it better than us, with our instruments. I hear most prominently how our music is rhythmically immature by comparison. When time signatures change, they play the chaos naturally, and resolve it in a way odd to our Western ear. Very pleasing to an ear for structural complexity.
@@dsm5d723 Better? I say definitely not. I like their sound but that's all. Just kinda like it. I love American and British music.
@@mboyer68 Ok, I guess I have heard so much of "our" American and British rock music, and there is something refreshing about this. I love the new age bluegrass and Americana sound, say Sarah Jarosz, but with electric guitar and bass, I am more drawn to this than any recycled 1-4-5- familiar blues progression. Just saying that this is a new dimension to explore, with the 1960's standard instrumentation: Guitar, bass and amp. They do the drums a bit different. I also like that national borders and the culture of different people are kept apart. I hate modern country music, but Sarah and someone like Slaid Cleeves are great inspirations. And just saying American is not enough.
@@mboyer68 Apologies, I realize that I wasn't being fully clear in what I meant. I was referring to the overall North African Blues SCENE, a thing which has been rendered non-existent in the West, because of media manipulation-signal boosting, mass communications and the internet monetization scheme. I still listen to American bands, in my native language, but Seattle was the last organic scene, and look what happened to Austin. I can't speak on the local UK music climate, but it is obvious that culture is declining with simplification and automated replication, the best profit-seeking strategies. A studio session guitar player/record collector I met in Wilmington, NC, in 2012 told me about it, about the time when working in Austin, playing on some well known country-pop hits in the late 1980's/early 1990's which you would recognize. I mentioned Slaid Cleeves, and we were talking tech money killing local music scenes 5 minutes later. He said, clear in my mind as when he said it, that the tech money was like a big baby Huey, and it came and sat on the real, local party in every spot it could find one, from raves to Burning Man. He also is involved with WFMU and said that "You New Yorker's sure do know your music." There is no local American scene, or UK for that matter, that I know of, with as much life and real local flavor as this music, in my opinion. Not a contest of Nations, but of how music is made or manufactured in different ones.
@@dsm5d723 you made this probably the most wholesome comment section on the internet
This is blues in its purest form. You can feel the pain without even understanding the words
Ask not what you can do for the blues ,but what the blues can do for you , set you free , the best music comes from the worst places .
Love seeing how the blues has made the world a little smaller, may peace come to the east by way of the blues...
Saying “The Sahara desert” literally translates to saying the the great desert desert
Fun fact: There's enough sand in Northern Africa to cover the entire Sahara Desert.
Fun fact #2: Lake Chad translates to Lake Lake.
@@MrJohanGuzman Yes, and Bangladesh's national airline, Biman, translates into 'airline airline'. Go figure.
Yes, and when you say "The La Brea Tar Pits" you are saying "The The Tar Tar Pits" The Los Angeles Angles baseball team " would have been, yup, "The The Angeles Angels" had the Angels left Animal Slime, but I digress.
Yeah but if you say "the Sahara" do you mean "the Sahara desert" or just "the desert"?
Sahara Desert where being a right handed player is weird
What , 360 likes . Thank you so much guys 😂😂 jeez
No, In most eastern music the instruments are right handed only and we tell left handed players to just flip the instrument and leave the strings flipped cause it gives you your own flair
@@b77ari75 in terms of sound or visual style?
Maybe he's left handed?
Jaqen H'ghar degenerate joke. NCR time
Mahdi Alghawi it’s a joke ... my god
This is Berbère music being played electric dear...
Not much Hendrix or Dire Strait except the look of Fender guitars.
In north Africa Magreb in the 90 there was Raï music,same as here,,north african folk music going electric.
It's not the new wage of virtuoso guitar player,, but cool and refreshing to hear Berbère music going electric.
Thanks for the video,,its cool and i was not aware and thanks for the references and names of the bands.
Regards...
Well said Mr. Balls.
@nynetynyne
It is new to you,,but it must be a fews thousands years they play that music...
Go listen in 1968 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stone made an album with Berbère musicians...
Same music but acoustic...
And there is a multitude of classical Berbère records you can find..
It is no real cutting edge but certainly refreshing and inspiring to listen,,very cool.! 😎
Regards..
@@johnballs729 well as far as Bombino goes, he actually did say in interviews that he was really inspired by Hendrix and especially Mark Knopfler
You don't play guitar do you?
@@beemelonhead1
Yes i do..
I know you probably won't see this, but I can't thank you enough for this video. You introduced me to this wonderful music, which really helped me get through some hard times. I just saw Mdou Moctar last night, and it blew my mind. I'm also going to see Bombino next month, which I can't wait for. It's crazy how you just randomly click on some RUclips video one night and find your favorite music from a culture I didn't even know existed.
Tinariwen has been one of my favorites for years!
USA: "The electric guitar is over!"
Sahara: "Hold our beer..."
The electric guitar is still really in vogue/overused in all popular genres in the us tbh (sry im so lame lmao)
It's more like "hold my water skin"
Hold my mint tea
I don't think anyone says that in the USA. Keep making things up
@@lexingtonconcord8751 Actually, no less a personage than *Eric Clapton* said this in a Billboard interview last year, when he was told about declining guitar sales. He was probably half-kidding (he did also say, "maybe...") but he said it.
I found a duo from Mali called Amadou & Mariam about a year ago and since I've been looking for something like it. Tinariwen somehow have that same melodic rhytm that blows my mind. I can highly recommend anybody who likes Tinariwen to listen to Amadou & Mariam if they don't already.
These are the true Kings of the desert, I have heard a lot of blues all my life being from Mississippi and New Orleans my ears do not lie to me I know about lightning Hopkins Johnny Lee Hooker muddy Waters howling Wolf BB King, Jimi Hendrix, they're guitar playing is in the top 10 they have a message in the music that they sing their music has soul is of the heart, Kings of the desert, the rhythm and structure of the rhythm the downbeat and the upbeat, a used four guitar players two percussion players that's a band totally awesome, I am going to call Mississippi and Louisiana so they can listen to the desert blues peace out God bless.
its cool that the majority's a lefty guitarist and its a lefty guitarist's dream to see majority of people like them
Music like love transcends everything.
You got it!✌
Sheeeeit you BETTA preach
Excellent! ya'll are one step closer to discovering the amazing sounds of the OUD!
The Tuareg music, culture and history is hugely inspirational, zGod bless these hugely talented musicians with this great Tuareg blues guitar. Its so original,. I really hope much more gigs come to the UK and im sure it will be really big. Theres so much great creativity and great colaberations are possible with some imagination and im imagining electric violin, indian drums, shennai, sitar, electric sitar or whatever else. Ive been listening to these young girls playing music, one of whom has a 7 stringed electric violin and she is so talented. With rap, drill, reggae, folk or whatever fits the sky is the limit it just needs to be heard at festivals and artists like Robert Plant, Nigel Kennedy and john MacClaughlin have the great talent and a lifetime of genius to inspire and bring it more mainstream to western ears. The music industry is 80% stale with little new sounds and imagination and even with Ginger Baker and Paul Macca going to Nigeria 50 or so years ago the music mafia kept it too safe and boring rather than pushing things like rap artists like Missy Elliott and Prince. Thats just my take onn it, what do I know?
more left-handed players than the entire world!!
Narrated by, Ray Romano 😂
lol...oh shit!
Haha 🤣
Damn!! Good one lol
Thank you for drastically altering the way I listen to the rest of this video
I can hear that but all I hear is Harold Ramis.
Kel Assouf is another real solid artist. Black Tenere is one of my favourite desert rock albums.
I wouldn't call it "The Best" guitar music but it is good to see people from other walks of life enjoying what the guitar and music in general has to offer to the human soul!! Excellent video!!
Saw Bombino at the New Orleans Jazz fest.... incredible performance
Tinariwen make the TRUE desert rock 🍻
Our boys "fortunate one" will undoubtedly come from one of these fine artists.
It is 3:30 in the morning I woke up with a headache, got up to get some water, turn on my tablet and found this!!! Downloaded a bunch of these great artists on ITunes and guess what? My headache is gone! Thank you!
Suffering is necessary for art and creative achievement.
Wow, I've never heard of Robert Plänt. Is that the guy from Greta Van Fleet?
*Dies from disbelief*
He's a great drummer too.
😂😂😂😂
Pleeeaasee noooo
Yes he was the front man for Q U E E N
I can't understand a word. Yet the passion and technique is completely understandable. This is what's lacking from today's western bands.
Bingo
I take it you're not much of a connoisseur of western guitar music? I think maybe whats missing is your exploration of music. 'Western' covers millions and millions of guitarists so i really wouldnt be too sure. Do You mean... on the tv?
@nynetynyne yes you're right there hasn't been a single guitar note played on the television since the 90's. I've definitely never seen a life festival performance of some shitty current band on a television And I hear that if you try to watch MTV or any of the music channels now its just a old crusty man sat in a silent room crying. Funny thing is that I don't personally watch t.v. but my point still stands, radio, RUclips algorithms, reccomended Spotify stuff etc etc Isn't exactly gonna show you who's currently fucking radical at guitar. Surely we all know that you have to dig deep to find true art? I can't even begin to entertain the idea that all western guitarists are shit. That's just plain wrong. Music is subjective.. I get it. But blanket statements like that are just plain ignorant and childish.. and also wrong. Haha.
@nynetynyne fair enough. Not the end of the world tho.. cant beat live music anyway.
The electric guitar will never die.
Sona Jobarteh of Gambia. She is a good addition to your list. I’m glad to see these musicians get the exposure they deserve. Thanks for posting.
Your channel is incredible 👏 It's been a real treat discovering music all over the world
Reminds me of the sound of Mars Volta. Desert pshycidelic rock.
Def thought of their song agadez haha
The Mars Volta is kinda waaaay heavier than the stuff here.
Forgive my ignorance of these people of this area of the world.I knew about many being nomadic and tough human beings.Had no idea about their music culture.I’m blown away and in love with their music.I need to learn more about these fascinating human beings.Love from West Virginia,USA!
1 Bombino🎸 💞💖😘
2 mdou moctar 🎸
3Tinariwen 🎸
Every time an eastern a third world or eastern musician embraces a Fender, a Gibson, a Martin or any great American guitar it brings about a whole new world of sounds and player technique possibilities. This is because Muslims jews, Saudi Arabians or any musicians in these countries blend their cultural music with ours in North America. As such, they are expanding the world of music into sonic adventures that are twisting our ear to hear their way of music on our(American) guitars which is amazing to hear and most welcome if we want new forms of music to grow! Just listen to Bob Marley when he recorded on a Gibson. To him it was a guitar he expressed himself on but listen to his songs with that guitar. A Gibson electric brought into Reggae? Fucking brilliant!!
Well said