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Posted by Subhi <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=gamal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 10:42 am

this is Bombino a self taught refugee bedouin guitarist

this song inar has become an unofficial lament for the now destroyed Libyan society, to some of us anyway

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Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 5:52 pm, in reply to "for Ian M"

Thanks Subhi, appreciate the education. A great, hypnotic groove on this one!

cheers,
I

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Re: for Ian M

Posted by Subhi <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=gamal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 11:01 pm, in reply to "Re: for Ian M"

that post you made with fairouz its the first time

i have listened to those songs in years it was very inspiring i was shook

so here is dankwairo from Kano, that 8 men and a couple of drum can do this is a wonder, i think from i was child in the sahel, i think this is how i became a music addict, sarkin means king so it is a panegyric i guess hypnotic they have music i their bodies and riddim

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Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 11:38 pm, in reply to "Re: for Ian M"

Like it. Just a pushy little request Subhi. Do you have an English trans of the lyrics. It would clarify, so to speak. Ta.

Re: for Ian M

Posted by Subhi <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=gamal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 8:50 am, in reply to "Re: for Ian M"

I never learned any hausa or yoruba, can not even tell the one from the other, they are very hard tonal languages i have never seen a translation of sarkin muri or much else

Nigerians however are generally very good linguists

here is Burna Boy another story about unilever in mostly english enjoy

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Re: for Ian M

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 9:57 pm, in reply to "Re: for Ian M"

I never learned any hausa or yoruba, can not even tell the one from the other, they are very hard tonal languages i have never seen a translation of sarkin muri or much else.

That's too bad. Although I spent a year in delta, working, I only learned a couple of words/phrases, hence when a song is in a foreign language I rely on lyrics translated in English to guide me.

Thanks for Another Story - the intro helps. Not the narrative/history I am familiar with, although not surprising. Just typical imperialism. Nowadays, with internet, it is difficult to hide these. Hence BRICS ultimately.

The first song by Bambino reminded me of Talking Timbuktu album with Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder.

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