theworldmusicplanet | Reves D'Oasis Desert Blues 2 Disc 2 - 'Aitma' by Tartit Female group from Mali Tuareg @theworldmusicplanet | Uploaded December 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Track 9 'Aitma' by Tartit, Mali Tuareg, Disc Two from the double CD set compilation Reves D'Oasis Desert Blues 2 released on the Network label in 2002. Distributed by Harmonia Mundi.
The Tuareg call themselves kel tougulmoust, the people of the veil, kel tamasheq, who speak Tamasheck, or imubar, the free people. Nomads do not have an easy life in post-colonial Africa, for borders mean nothing to them.
The members of Tartit, for example, had to flee from the army of Mali to a Mauritanian refugee camp, where they founded a predominantly female music group. Today, Tardit (the name means “united”) is back in northern Mali and Bamako. 'Aitma' is a song for peace and the return of sons to their native soil.
“Bahr bela ma”, ocean without water, was the name by which Arab camel drivers knew the Sahara, the world's largest desert. They travelled that ocean by camel, the ships of the desert, or as the French call their caravans, le train de sable.
Track 9 'Aitma' by Tartit, Mali Tuareg, Disc Two from the double CD set compilation Reves D'Oasis Desert Blues 2 released on the Network label in 2002. Distributed by Harmonia Mundi.
The Tuareg call themselves kel tougulmoust, the people of the veil, kel tamasheq, who speak Tamasheck, or imubar, the free people. Nomads do not have an easy life in post-colonial Africa, for borders mean nothing to them.
The members of Tartit, for example, had to flee from the army of Mali to a Mauritanian refugee camp, where they founded a predominantly female music group. Today, Tardit (the name means “united”) is back in northern Mali and Bamako. 'Aitma' is a song for peace and the return of sons to their native soil.
“Bahr bela ma”, ocean without water, was the name by which Arab camel drivers knew the Sahara, the world's largest desert. They travelled that ocean by camel, the ships of the desert, or as the French call their caravans, le train de sable.
