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A truly exceptional Tuareg guitarist from Niger who passed away in 2020, Abdallah Oumbadougou is considered one of the founders of the desert blues, and this double album contains both classic and previously unreleased tracks from the first decade of the 21st century. <\/p>\n
\u201cIllilagh Tener\u00e9\u201d starts the listen and wastes little time making an impression with the warm, meticulous guitar playing that welcomes expressive singing to the calm delivery. \u201cWirhin Titiw\u00e9 Tchi Higren\u201d follows and is more drum focused, where plenty of flowing rhythm enters, and this leads into the bare moments of the folk influenced \u201cAfrikya.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further into the listen, the fuller and live \u201cHe Tener\u00e9\u201d makes great use of the animated bass and crisp drums with some Western rock flair, while the vocally strong \u201cTabsiq Dalet\u201d is plenty melodic and radiates much culture and sincerity.<\/p>\n
Landing on the back half, the swirling and punchy \u201cImidiwan\u201d emits soaring backing vocals to a powerful and harmonic album highlight, though \u201cIwouksane\u201d is a close second thanks to the dynamic and intricate percussion that resides poetically alongside the eloquent singing.<\/p>\n
Close to the end, Oumbadougou\u2019s stunning guitar acrobatics shine across the mesmerizing \u201cDague Oudouniya Zagzag Bass Tchilla,\u201d and the focused call and response singing of \u201cSarho Nawan\u201d exits the listen and carries a tribal demeanor that heads right to his roots.<\/p>\n
Oumbadougou\u2019s influence is still very much present today in modern Tuareg stars like Mdou Moctar, Bombino and Tinariwen. Had his earlier records been more widely available, there\u2019s little doubt that he\u2019d be a world renowned guitar icon, but there\u2019s still time; this posthumous release will certainly preserve his legacy of dedication and skill to his craft and heritage, while showcasing his inimitable guitar virtuosity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10971],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46912","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-abdallah-oumbadougou","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46912"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}