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Malouma
Dunya
$17.99
This singer from Mauritania is both a respected artist and a controversial advocate for women's rights. The combination, while not overt in the music, is still felt. She has developed a pan-African and trans-continental style that pays tribute to Mali's guitarists, America's great blues singers and is suffused with Moorish and European influences. Backed by guitars and tidinit, with additions of both folk and modern instrumentation, she has made a recording that veers back and forth between desert folk and Afro-pop with ease and grace.
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Char'aa
Mreidmida
Lebleida
| "From the desert state of Mauretania comes one of Africa's great singers... Backed by guitars and traditional instruments like the guitar-like tidinit, she mixes subtle, slinky blues-edged songs with others that veer from Moorish influences through to what sounds like a new desert fusion of gospel and gently driving R&B. There are passages that edge towards western pop, but then she's back to her cool, drifting desert blues, her understated voice as varied as her influences." - The Guardian, UK |
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