Tahabort
The first single, named for a market square in Tamanrasset and one of the band's most played songs.
Imarhan, from Imarhan (2016)
- Released
- 29 April 2016
- Length
- 3:30
- Album
- Imarhan
Tahabort is the second track on Imarhan and the band's first single, which came out in 2015. It is named after a market square in Tamanrasset where Tuareg of every generation gather, and Vice France describes it as a place where friends meet to party. Toulou Kiki sings backing vocals on it. City Slang pressed it as a white-label 7-inch with Assossamagh on the B-side in 2016.
The Guardian's Neil Spencer heard a funky edge in the song. Setlist.fm shows it tied with Imarhan as the band's most played song, with 16 logged performances, and it was the eighth song of the set recorded at The Drake in Amherst, Massachusetts, on 20 October 2022.
On stage
- 2022-10-20, The Drake, Amherst, Massachusetts Eighth song of the main set in a matrix recording on the Internet Archive.
More songs by Imarhan
Tarha Tadagh, Tumast, Imarhan, Azzaman, Adar Newlan
Sources
- Imarhan, Wikipedia
- New Generation: An Interview With Imarhan, The Quietus (2016-01-28)
- Imarhan interview, Vice France (2016)
- Imarhan: Imarhan review - an ear-opening debut, The Guardian (2016-04-24)
- Tahabort / Assossamagh (7 inch), Discogs
- Imarhan: setlist statistics, setlist.fm