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Sastanaqqam

Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni's ode to the Sahara and its nomads.
Tinariwen, from Elwan (2017)

It was premiered through The Quietus ahead of the album, with an Anti- post dated November 10, 2016. Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni said it is an ode to the Sahara and its nomads, and expresses a traveler's needs crossing the desert on his mount and the love-hate relationship with the desert. The video came out with the album on February 10, 2017: six young musicians from M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco, who learned Tinariwen songs as boys after the band first visited in 2006, perform it in place of the older members, who wrap turbans on their heads to mark the passage to manhood and the handing on of the music. The director is not named in our sources. The spelling varies between sources and we found no translation of the title. A KEXP session on April 4, 2017 reportedly included it.

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Sources

  1. Tinariwen announce US tour dates, premiere new song Sastanaqqam, Anti- (2016-11-10)
  2. Tinariwen's new album Elwan out now, Anti- (2017-02-10)
  3. Watch Tinariwen's video for Sastanaqqam, Vice (2017-02)