Tarabbut n Etran Finatawa tga amsasa n idles amucaq d win Peul-Wodaabé n Nnijir. Azawan n trabbut sttin ikkan tga snat, ismun ngr tawila tazaykut n Imucaq d Peul d uzawan atrar. Tirubba s snat ar ttirirnt akw s yat tklit, imarirn nsnt inbdadn Bammo d Ghalitan kra igat yan gh umnid ns, yan s tmacaqt yan s tfulfudit. Imasn izuyka n kraygat idlesn an s sin munn d imasn itrarn fen yat tadêfi i umsasa yan n snt trubba. Rrekz n Wodaabé d win ukayweres ar sbrrakn yan tn izêran isfld asn a irkez.

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Le groupe Etran Finatawa (étoiles de la tradition) est un jumelage des cultures touarègue et peul-wodaabé du Niger. La musique du groupe varie entre le style purement traditionnel (touareg ou peul) et moderne. Les deux groupes composent ensemble et les deux chanteurs principaux Bammo et Ghalitane chantent ensemble en tamachek et en fulfulde. Les chants polyphoniques wodaabés sont instrumentalisés avec guitare, calebasses et tendé. Les compositions touarègues sont enrichies par les chants wodaabés, la chorégraphie wodaabé et le rythme des akayweres, cet instrument classique de Wodaabé, comme des ferrailles, que l'on attache à la cheville. Le rythme est unique et invite à danser…

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The Tuareg people have been desert traders since prehistory, following the camel routes that connect the Meditarranean with sub-Saharan Africa. Like them, the Wodaabe are nomads, though they are more likely to trade cattle than camels. The two groups’ territories overlap in Niger and Nigeria, and it was in Niger that representatives of these two very distinct groups (six Wodaabe and four Tuareg) first met in 2004 to form Etran Finatawa or “Stars of Tradition”. The band’s excellent first CD, Introducing Etran Finatawa, was recorded in France during an European tour in the summer of 2005 [...].

Fans of Tinawaren will immediately recognize the hypnotic proto-blues grooves of Tuareg music, its plaintive call-and-response structure that seems to anticipate everything from field blues to American spirituals to Motown singles, its incorporation of electric guitar and bass into traditional melodies. The Wodaabes’ music is less well known, less instrumentally based. It is characterized by multilayered vocals and handclaps, and always accompanied by slow-motion, costumed dance. Etran Finatawa merges the two traditions, laying Tuareg beats under trance-inducing polyphonies, embellishing communal reveries with blues-leaning electric guitar. [...] [From PopMatters]

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