Music
Aug 12th 2011 11:12
First one, is from the south of Algeria. Well, it the music of Touareg. The land of Touareg extend to Mali, Nigeria and Lybia too.
The Tergui music is very old and they use very ancient instruments, such as the Imzad. Imzad is an old instrument with one string! and it is reserved only for women!
Although, nowaday, the Tergui music uses new instrument such as guitars.
here you can see a famous Algerian Tergui singer Nabil Othmani (aka Nabil Othman Bali) with the American musician Steve Shehan.
Another group Tergui from Mali this time. The Touareg had lot of trouble in Mali, so they make some revolutions there in the 60s, 80s and early 90s.
The group Tinariwen have members from Mali, but the leader lived most of his life in Algerian Touareg territory after his father was killed in Mali. The songs of the group are in most of them about freedom and revolutions.
Here is one their songs that is about one of their battles:
Another style of music, from the east now.
The Tunisian mezwed
The instrument is the cousin of the bagpipe but it have a funny shape, you can guess what it's made of. ;)
It's used also in Algeria, but here I'll show the Tunisian one. I think, though, the Tunisian music is close to the east Algerian music,the Tunisian one is more vibrant!
the sound of the mezwed is different from the Scotish bagpipe, but yet, the Scotish and Celtic music is well employed in traditional Algerian music .
Here is a specimen with a group called Mugar. The members are Algerian, Bretons and Scotish.
And among all instruments, the Gasba (the last picture)is the most important in all traditional music in Algeria :)
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Today, I'm in the mood for music!
So, I chose some different styles of music to introduce.
The first one is from the south of Algeria.
The land of Tuareg extends to Mali, Nigeria and Libya too.
And it is reserved only for women!
Here you can see a famous Algerian Tergui singer Nabil Othmani (aka Nabil Othman Bali) with the American musician Steve Shehan.
The Tuareg had lot of trouble in Mali, so they had some revolutions there in the 60s, 80s and early 90s.
The group Tinariwen have members from Mali, but the leader lived most of his life in Algerian Tuareg territory after his father was killed in Mali.
Most of the songs of this are group are about freedom and revolutions.
The instrument is the cousin of the bagpipe but it has a funny shape, you can guess what it's made of.
The sound of the mezwed is different from the Scotish bagpipe, but yet, the Scotish and Celtic music is well employed in traditional Algerian music .
I probably like the second song most, because of the guitars. And I don't see music videos with camels and cool outfits very often. :)
I want to make some more entries about music, but I'm never sure what the response to writing about music. Plus it takes some effort to write about specific things in art. But I think you did well in your entry here.
You are right the guitars always make music better :) originaly they use an old form of guitars called guembri. It has a very nice sound (some still use it) but it's replaced sometimes by accostic guitar or by electric guitar.
Please do write about music, it's intresting and would help me regonize all American type (I know it's impossible since there is too many!). I like many of American style (jazz, blues, rock, country...), I would love to know more about! And folk still mysterious to me, and can't understand how to recognize it ^^'
Musicians are usually conflicted to use older instruments or new. As for Arabic music, I tend to like the older styles. But someone told me that only old people like 'classical Arabic music'. Which I thought was funny. I think it was because they were very young themselves. I prefer the music for classical sounds. That's what I learned about when I was taking courses on Arabic.
Folk is hard to understand. It's not my favorite style, but I like some of the songs when I find a good version. It is basically songs that are repeated by many many musicians since about the 19th century. Very simple music (same with blues), too. It is an influence on almost all of the styles of music. So it is hard to find the difference in many cases. The three main styles of music are blues, folk, and jazz (and sometimes we say 'gospel' or 'church music'). And they all mix into each other.