Sahel Sounds

The Sahel Sounds back catalog is available as Name Your Price downloads until Midnight PST for Bandcamp Friday Link in Bio As you may have heard, today is #BandcampFriday and @Bandcamp is waiving their share of the revenue for all sales until midnight PST. We are celebrating by making all Sahel Sounds digital releases* available as Name Your Price downloads for 24 hours. The promotion ends on Friday, February 4th at Midnight PST. SLIDE 1 - @lesfillesdeillighadad SLIDE 2 - @mdou_moctar SLIDE 3 - Wau Wau Collectif

@lesfillesdeillighadad will perform at this year's @savannahmusicfestival Stay tuned for more tour dates! #SMF2022 #savannahmusicfestival #sahelsounds #lesfillesdeillighadad #tuaregguitar

Bounaly via WhatsApp @bounaly559 #bamako #mali #niafounke #guitar #sahara #sahel #sahelsounds

Mdou Moctar’s Ilana: The Creator LP is FINALLY* back in stock LINK IN BIO “Mdou Moctar has made the most insane psychedelic guitar album of the 21st century” - NPR

 “Ilana is an incandescent set of guitar music” - Pitchfork “Merciless perfection” - Uncut “Whether you’re here for face-melting solos or pointed political critique, no one does either quite like him” - Spin The wait is over! Mdou Moctar’s breakthrough LP, Ilana: The Creator, is FINALLY back in print on vinyl and available for purchase at the Sahel Sounds Bandcamp page. Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he's celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original creator in a genre defined by cover bands. In the exterior, where Saharan rock has become one of the continents biggest musical exports, he's earned a name for himself with his guitar moves. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame. 

*Thank you for your patience as we adapt to the new reality of waiting over a year to get records back in print.

Lingo Seini et son groupe (Youssouf Mohamed, Saliy Kalleyssi, and Mamoudou Amadou on Gogue) performing in Niamey, Niger. 'Musique Hauka' is available now on LP and digital.

2021 was a big year for Sahel Sounds with new albums by Wau Wau Collectif, Les Filles de Illighadad, and Mamaki Boys, as well as Etran de L'Aïr’s FIRST EVER tour! We would like to thank everybody that supported our artists and the label this year. It means the world to us. SLIDES 1-3 Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom SLIDE 4-6 Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works @lesfillesdeillighadad SLIDE 7-9 Mamaki Boys - Patriote @aziz_tony SLIDE 10 - Etran de L'Aïr live in Agadez @etrandelair #sahelsounds #tende #tuareg #guitar #tamashek #niger #sahara #sahel #desert #africa #world #niamey #agadez #senegal #tuaregguitar #synthsfromthesahara #bandcamp #wauwaucollectif #mamakiboys #etrandelair #lesfillesdeillighadad #fatouseidighali #vinyligclub #cosmicmusic #recordstoreday

We are excited to have albums by Wau Wau Collectif and @lesfillesdeillighadad included in @aquariumdrunkard’s 2021: Year in Review feature. Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 14th, is our last shipping day of the holiday season, so if you've been meaning to get an order in now is the time to do it. Thank you to everybody that has supported our artists and the label this year. It is beyond appreciated.

@etrandelair's first-ever tour was a huge success, with 30 shows in 35 days across 9 different countries. A million thank yous to @mathieupetolla for tour managing, @bacana.live for booking the tour, all the venues and promoters that put on a show, and of course all the fans that came out to see Etran play. We have partnered with the great people at @groundcontroltouring to work on bringing Etran de L'Aïr to the USA in 2022. Stay tuned for tour dates.

The Sahel Sounds back catalog is available as Name Your Price downloads until Midnight PST for Bandcamp Friday Link in Bio As you may have heard, today is #BandcampFriday and @Bandcamp is waiving their share of the revenue for all sales until midnight PST. We are celebrating by making all Sahel Sounds digital releases* available as Name Your Price downloads for 24 hours. The promotion ends on Friday, December 3rd at Midnight PST. SLIDE 1 Etran de L'Aïr - @etrandelair SLIDE 2 - Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla @ahmed_lowla SLIDE 3 - Les Filles de Illighadad @lesfillesdeillighadad SLIDE 4 - Mamaki Boys @aziz_tony #sahelsounds #tende #tuareg #guitar #tamashek #niger #sahara #sahel #desert #africa #world #mali #niamey #agadez #senegal #podor #hauka #tuaregguitar #balanishow #mauritania #synthsfromthesahara #Nouakchott #bandcamp #mdoumoctar #lesfillesdeillighadad #fatouseidighali #vinyligclub *Does not apply to the Etran de L'Aïr Agadez pre-order

Our Music from Saharan Cellphones compilation was uploaded to Bandcamp 10 years ago today. Thank you to everybody that has listened so far! Link in bio. Here is the original album description from 2011... Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all-purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, playback songs on tinny built in speakers, and swap files in a very literal peer to peer Bluetooth wireless transfer. The songs chosen for the compilation were some of the highlights -- music that is immensely popular on the unofficial mp3/cellphone network from Abidjan to Bamako to Algiers, but have limited or no commercial release. They're also songs that tend towards this new world of self production -- Fruity Loops, home studios, synthesizers, and Autotune. In 2010, various versions of saharan cellphone music were released on cassette. Many of the songs were unlabeled, giving no insight to their mysterious origins. In the past year, the artists have been tracked down to collaborate on a commercial release. As such, 50% of the proceeds go directly to the artists.

Idassane Wallet Mohamed, cellphone recording from around 2008(?), Ageulhok #idassanewalletmohamed #aguelhok #azawad #tende #isswat #sahara #tuareg #afrique