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Mauritania i/mɔːrɪˈteɪniə/ (Arabic: موريتانيا Mūrītānyā; Berber: Muritanya or Agawej; Wolof: Gànnaar; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of western North Africa. It is the eleventh largest country in Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Morocco and the remnants of Western Sahara in the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mali in the east and southeast, and Senegal in the southwest.
The country derives its name from the ancient Berber Kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BC to the 7th century AD, in the far north of modern-day Morocco. Approximately 90% of Mauritania's land is within the Sahara and consequently the population is concentrated in the south, where precipitation is slightly higher. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast, which is home to around one-third of the country's 3.5 million people. The government was overthrown on 6 August 2008, in a military coup d'état led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On 16 April 2009, Aziz resigned from the military to run for president in the 19 July elections, which he won.
Desert blues Mauritania
Desert blues from Mauritania.
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From the Album Desert Blues. Dimi Mint Abba (Arabic: ديمي منت آبا; 25 December 1958 -- 4 June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians, born into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.
Noura Mint Seymali performed at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on April 29, 2015. Noura Mint Seymali - vocals / ardine Jeiche Ould Chighaly - guitar Ousmane Touré - bass Matthew Tinari - drums www.mediasanctuary.org Noura Mint Seymali is breaking ground. Heir to a Mauritanian Griot lineage stretching back for untold generations, Noura is blasting forward on the ancient spaceship of pentatonic desert blues and carving out a personality on her way as vanguard Diva of the Sahel. As the daughter of the late Seymali Ould Mouhamed Val, a revered scholar-musician credited as the first person to apply written notation to folk music in Mauritania, Noura possesses the sort of aural precision that is the glue of traditions across time. She is a tradition bearer. In her teenage yea...
Traditional Desert Berber Blues guitar is called tihardint in Azawad (touareg land) and tidinit or tidnit in Mauritania (moor land ) has at least three strings and played fingerstyle like in its descendant the country blues of the US.
Noura Mint Seymali performed at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on April 29, 2015. Noura Mint Seymali - vocals / ardine Jeiche Ould Chighaly - guitar Ousmane Touré - bass Matthew Tinari - drums www.mediasanctuary.org Noura Mint Seymali is breaking ground. Heir to a Mauritanian Griot lineage stretching back for untold generations, Noura is blasting forward on the ancient spaceship of pentatonic desert blues and carving out a personality on her way as vanguard Diva of the Sahel. As the daughter of the late Seymali Ould Mouhamed Val, a revered scholar-musician credited as the first person to apply written notation to folk music in Mauritania, Noura possesses the sort of aural precision that is the glue of traditions across time. She is a tradition bearer. In her teenage yea...
Mauritanian artist Noura Mint Seymali performed with her band at Artisphere in Arlington, VA on August 1, 2014. Unique among the “desert blues” music that is emerging mostly from Mali, Noura Mint Seymali’s band presents a unique interpretation of traditional Mauritanian music. Noura’s success stems from her ability to combine a rare classical mastery and a griot’s cultural authority with musical idioms that speak to the emergent realities of youth culture in West Africa and beyond. Composing for an ensemble with traditional instruments at its core—ardine (harp), tidinit (lute), and t’beul (bowl drum)— and fortified by Western bass and drum-set, Noura employs the instruments and modal structures essential to Moorish tradition while simultaneously delivering ideas within the format of the...
The strongest blues traits in Africa are found in the west central Sudanic belt. This piece comes from Mauritania. Listen to the singing at 2:33. It has a distinctive blues quality.
Live in Concert: GROUP DOUEH Group Doueh are led by the enigmatic guitar hero Bamaar Salmou, who is known simply as 'Doueh' (pronounced: 'Doo-way'). They are from Dakhla, in the Western Sahara. The group's sound is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but one that is also entirely its own. It shares its roots with the neighboring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and avant approach that incorporates a distinctly pop and rock element that is anomalous in the region. This is a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it. This is the sound of the Sahara desert. It is a searing, meditative, and hypnotic modal sandstorm of note clusters that has bee...
Title - Mauritania 5: Travel Advice In this video Mufti Abdur-Rahman will provide some travel tips for those that intend to visit Mauritania. If you wish to view the other videos which were recorded while out in Mauritania then click on the playlist link below. Mauritania Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTgDm4XwxaRIo5y4In7ygbxwmi1JB4lG0 You can also like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zamzamacademy or Follow us on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/zamzamacademy Our Youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/ZamZamAcademy For publications: https://www.whitethreadpress.com
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A selection of photographs from my trip to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in West Africa in January of 2009. Featured locations: * The fish market on the Atlantic coast * Nouakchott, the capital city * People and places in the villages of Bababe, Boghe, and Njawaldi * Chinguetti, the 7th Holiest City of Islam * An overnight camel trek to an oasis in the Sahara Desert All photos are the property of Andrea Moore Arts.
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Can't get no this,
and I can't get no that,
can't get no you know,
I don't even know where it's at.
Ain't got the smoke and uh, ain't no booze,
Got them low down dried out desert blues, yes I do.
Um, a George Carlin said I had to go,
just what he wanted I did not know,
I'm over here dug in so far from home,
lookin' all around try and see what's going on.
I got the sand in my collar,
Got the sand in my hair,
Got it in my pockets,
Got it everywhere.
I got sand in my shirt,
Got it in my shoes,
Got them low down dried out desert blues, yes I do, how how how.
Joined up in the army
where it was hard to find,
End up over here, got my ass on the line,
but I'll be right here until my work is done,
if I get back home I hope I never see no more guns.
Here across the ocean,
I left some of my good friends behind,
I hope somebody's thinking about me,
especially that sweet little woman of mine.
Can't get no this,
and I can't get no that,
can't get no you know,
I don't even know where it's at.
Sand in my collar,
got the sand in my hair,
got it in my pockets,
got it everywhere.
I got sand in my shirt,
got it in my shoes,
got them low down dried out desert blues,
yes I do.