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Aman Iman: Water is Life
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0713746806729
Label: World Village USA
Manufacturer: World Village USA
MPN: 468067
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: World Village USA
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Studio: World Village USA
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Editorial Review:
When you hear this music clan -- group just doesn't seem to be the right designation for a band of nomad desert musicians/soldiers -- a listener can hear the calm of the desert night air and the serenity of the musicians who live there. The Taureg people truly seem to be of the land and never more so than here on the band's third album, Aman Iman. The loping percussion and the circular guitar lines conjure wide-open desert images evoked in the repetitive grooves. Some may grumble that the members are playing much as they did on the first and second albums, blending Arabic song structures, desert wails, and primordial blues guitar riffs, but for it to be any different would be akin to asking the people in Tinariwen to change who they are. Never have words been truer than those of the title, but this album also appends that sentiment, proving that music is life for the desert Taureg too. --Tad Hendrickson
A Unique Band of Rare Musical Quality and Massive Cultural Impact. Includes the Song "Nak Assarhagh" which Doesn't Appear on the Us Equivalent.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Terrorists rock! Islamic blues?
Different but very cool, definately worth a listen, well produced.
Good wind down music as it has a very thought provoking, "far away" quality to it.
Like a cross between "Dead can dance" and John Mayall.
Thanks Amazon as I wouldn't have found it without your recomendations.
Rating: - Found it from Arts Sound FM in Canberra
I listened to it on the radio so I logged on and downloaded some songs. How cool are they! First time I've gone to the trouble of logging on to Amazon. Think I'll download some more. Reminds me of being at WOMAD.
Rating: - Catchy funk rhythms and chants
I don't really consider it bluesy myself. It's the catchy funk rhythms and chants with crackling guitar interludes. Not all songs are winners, but overall about half will grab you and you'll instantly get an addiction for these saharan, tuareg groove merchants.
Rating: - I'm in love
Enthralling,exciting, like nothing I have heard before. Please come to the United States!
Carla
Rating: - Startlingly bluesy.
This startlingly bluesy album reflects the sharper focus their sound has recently achieved. Guitars underpin everything, with solo voices rising out in defiance or exaltation: the opening homage to a freedom fighter killed in 1995 is marvellously eloquent, as are the appeals for peace and the hope for a future return to the homeland.
With many of the tracks recorded in the open air at night in the desert, this is an album with a rugged, epic atmosphere all of its own.
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