Amidinine
My Friend: a song Bombino had played since his desert-guide days, rebuilt in Nashville as the opener of Nomad.
Bombino, from Nomad (2013)
- Written by
- Bombino
- Released
- 2013
- Length
- 4:29
- Album
- Nomad
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The title means My Friend. It is older than Nomad: there is a version on the 2004 Agamgam desert recordings and an acoustic one on Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2, whose intro PopMatters heard as close to American blues. In Nashville it became a bluesy riff over a rock beat with organ, handclaps and a chanted chorus, and KEXP said it rolled like a desert sandstorm.
Live
It opened and closed his Newport Folk set in 2013, and the Guardian's Robin Denselow picked it out as a highlight of his London show that spring. That September he played an acoustic version for the Guardian's studio sessions with Ibrahim Atchinguil Emoud on djembe, one of the uploads in the hypersongs web; the other is an audio upload of unconfirmed source. A seven-minute version from Amsterdam in 2019 is on Live in Amsterdam.
More songs by Bombino
Sources
- Watch Bombino perform Amidinine for the Guardian, Nonesuch (2013-09-05)
- Bombino: Amidinine, live session, The Guardian (2013-09-04)
- Album reviews: Niger sounds, KEXP (2013-06-15)
- Bombino live at Newport Folk 2013, NPR (2013-07-30)
- Group Bombino: Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2, PopMatters (2010-04-29)