Yep. And the pain these guys have lived through. I pray for their peace.

KR. YASHVARDHAN SINGH SOLANKI too bad the advertizers took over

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNx_nMp0nLTdfWg.html

@@adelaidemarie need to pay the bills, pay staff, so you need advertising. KZfaq is still the best.

WOW Muslims playing Western instruments, isn't that harram.??? Or maybe it's hypocrisy. As far as I'm concerned it can stay in the god forsaken dessert.

Bornaking if that’s what you believe about metal, then you don’t really get metal.

@Bornaking sit down child.

@Bornaking shut up and eat your porridge kid

@Bornaking the original commenter probably meant it as a figure of speech. Some people say "nature is metal", meaning it's intense or "hard-core". You may have already known this, but your reply led me to believe you did not so just trying to help out.

Or punk..

I was in Syria before the war, someone found out I was from Manchester in England and he was so excited to talk to someone about his favourite music artists, Badly Drawn Boy and The Smiths.

@@LordBillington42 Manchester is like an international language. It’s crazy how many people know this city

Feel sorry for them.

I was in Istanbul when it was Constantinople.

~I was in Egypt when 'Billie Jean' was played on boom boxes carried on camels, even in small villages~

Do it !

Fuck ya!

gimme

why not do it

@@gidd Now that I think about it, it would be better to setup universally funded and managed luthier shops, teaching wood and metal craft, using local materials to build beautiful guitars ( and other instruments) as instruments of peace, shops from different regions could "boast" about the quality if their instruments and annually, a great gathering would occur where music can be presented on them, culminating in a wonderful international jam.

hahaha. Fuckin' eh

…for some reason.

Sorry.... Dire Straight! :-D

Its list the rebellion status in the west now.. people have them as part of the decor now.

the electric guitar has sound of The cry of suffering for this the Touareg expresses their suffering with it

He would say"really groovy"

I know its crazy

Hed love it. And thats why we love Jimi. He influenced music because he was the music. I hope all those that come to love the music decide to become the music. Express yourself.

Tbf he was the one influenced by them at first

@@Absurdologist yup!

Same. I heard Tinariwan while visiting tamanrasset and my mind was blown away. I regretted not asking for the name of the group but then heard them again on the radio years later

Lucky

Yes. Would love to travel there and soak up all of this great music.

Well Spoken! As an American Jazz Violinist who is Just discovering Islam, I hope to travel on foot across North Africa and get to Know the people and the Music.

Love DZ from Russia

@@jackwilloughby239 : you are welcome here, black panters came to hide in Algeria when they were opressed …

Tahya hena

These are not "electric guitar bands" just because they have electric guitars in them. You can not compare the to great guitarists. They are nearly play rhythms on an electric guitar. BE SERIOUS!

Dr. J.S. Great-House lmao music purists are weird

Dr. J.S. Great-House huh?

@@SingleWing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLBogtRkmrqYfXk.html Actually listen to Bombino, the samples in this video are not representative.

why am I crying?

Yes. Sandcaster. Camelcaster. Gibson Djinn. Sandstormer. Ovation Oasis.

@@garyventure8442 i would like the sandcaster.

I can dig it

I would buy

Where can I get one #takemymoney

so punk 😂

has a real Woody Guthrie feel to it

Its not funny really what you just said .. dont you know did you not year the second the guy said that he also said 2 of his friends were killed because the mali forces view it as a weapon only because it opens up your mind freedom of speech and thought .. the governments of this world don’t want you smarter and taking there jobs away from them and stop being there mindless sheep slaves

So is a cricket bat.

He actually said "symbol of rebellion"

David Sanchez Really? That’s a very strong statement...

@@javiceres They do. Slavery still exists over in Africa, is that really so hard to understand or look up on the internet?

Wow. Had a quick listen. Sounds great.

Loved it. Opened doors in my mind I didn't know I had.

Just checked this out - worth a listen 🙏🏼

Thanks for this

It's beautiful!

Yes you had enormous rock scene in Europe in 60/70s (and especially NOW) and they are not globally known just because it's not UK/US. Fortunately internet corrected that in a way, Italian psych rock scene of 70s or German Krautrock finally got some recognition.

Well stop reading rolling stone magazine, African, Asian, non-english Europe have been mentioned a lot in other magazines and music programmes for decades.

just look at Japan for a flourishing rock/metal music scene that's being mostly ignored by western press/shows.

@@SocialNetwooky the same with Turkish rock/psych. Japan also had a huge psych rock scene too

To be fair the Rolling Stones magazine is only read in the uk and us really

The internet truly is a blessing for discovery

Just turned 70 & I hear ya loud & clear. It's impossible even with my old battered body & a broken neck not to move to this pure & beautiful moving music.

They need a lot of water of love

Dire Straits and Carlos Santana were hugely influential for the scene. But if you dig up folk field recordings from the pre-guitar days, you'll hear it's the same music. New instrument, old ideas.

Sultan of Swings must have really got their attention.

I bless the rains....

i guess they were sick of the governments getting money for nothing

Thank you for info

Also '' imahren from algeria 🇩🇿

@@montenmusic imahran ❤️🔥🇩🇿

Also Tasuta N Imal from Morocco

@@majiddjeri1934 also tinariwen from algeria and mali

@mark heyne how hypocritical. The player must've been collecting money for it for weeks or months, for them to just break it is nothing short of arrogant. Besides how are you going to claim to do something for god, when you're doing what god ordered you not to do, like hell it's his property

@mark heyne "Religious police" sounds like something out of an dystopian movie where a country controlled by state and religion use religion as a weapon to oppress the people. Kind of like those monks in Game of Thrones Season 6.

The whole feel of the video changed once I heard that. Insane to think about from my comfy little home in Canada. Art over fucking everything forever and ever.

That's the Religion Of Peace™ for ya.

Well "The Edge" should at least be locked up. Obviously in a soundproof cell.

hahahajahajajaha

@NoobMeister it's a joke, as in the way the video is titled it could be interpreted as the actual desert itself being what's producing the music Also r/wooosh

Which SCP is this

@NoobMeister ur fun at parties huh? Not!

Welcome to Nightvale

same

he's amazing, he forged my blues rock knowledge in my teens along all the other american blues legends.

I literally clicked on this video to try and find his name somewhere either in the video or in the comments!

a lot of the american counterculture figures visited morocco in the 60s.just to name a few burrough, kerouac,th stone..

@@deanjgn666666 Good haschich

@@penzman what's is?

He visited morocco than what there’s no tuareg ppl in morocco

Theres tuareg in the south of Morocco

@Modern Spirit And you don't. Stick to goats mate.

@Modern Spirit lol, its people like you who try to bring others down

All GOVERNMENTS kill their own.

Too bad the music is so boring like all middle eastern music

Ummm..ok sure..

Jimmy Boredom Really?

@@SharkRecordFilms yeah. Music from this region has influenced him since led zeppelin

@@jimmyboredom3519 Kashmir was an obvious influence

AcousticAsraff Kashmir is like 6000km away from the Sahara, though...

@@asraffomar335 listen to Carry Fire too

actually no

Is an universal activity not an universal language

You are thinking of Mathematics.

Very cliche but very true

@@anonsandifer507 music is mathematics www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-and-music

Most of us know there a world out there with different cultures, were have you been?

@@spoonking173 Americans dont know that actually

Tis Dandy👌

never hear surf music again

@Like New Maidservice thank you for replying and giving me those names. In all honesty, I heard a story about Jimi saying those words in '3rd stone from the sun' the day he heard of Dick Dale's passing. The electric guitar is here to stay... thanks again, mate.

Well said

@@georgelumsden4484 I loved the campy videos of king gizzard and the lizard wizard. watched it all night.

Mark speer from khruangbin is the best in the world right now imo

SGrulez1 dude no way that’s so cool!!!

I wonder what will happen when Bombino discovers LSD.

@@nataliezementbeisser1492 I'm sure we would not be his first exposure lol

It is hard to deny that they are doing it better than us, with our instruments. I hear most prominently how our music is rhythmically immature by comparison. When time signatures change, they play the chaos naturally, and resolve it in a way odd to our Western ear. Very pleasing to an ear for structural complexity.

@@dsm5d723 Better? I say definitely not. I like their sound but that's all. Just kinda like it. I love American and British music.

@@mboyer68 Ok, I guess I have heard so much of "our" American and British rock music, and there is something refreshing about this. I love the new age bluegrass and Americana sound, say Sarah Jarosz, but with electric guitar and bass, I am more drawn to this than any recycled 1-4-5- familiar blues progression. Just saying that this is a new dimension to explore, with the 1960's standard instrumentation: Guitar, bass and amp. They do the drums a bit different. I also like that national borders and the culture of different people are kept apart. I hate modern country music, but Sarah and someone like Slaid Cleeves are great inspirations. And just saying American is not enough.

@@mboyer68 Apologies, I realize that I wasn't being fully clear in what I meant. I was referring to the overall North African Blues SCENE, a thing which has been rendered non-existent in the West, because of media manipulation-signal boosting, mass communications and the internet monetization scheme. I still listen to American bands, in my native language, but Seattle was the last organic scene, and look what happened to Austin. I can't speak on the local UK music climate, but it is obvious that culture is declining with simplification and automated replication, the best profit-seeking strategies. A studio session guitar player/record collector I met in Wilmington, NC, in 2012 told me about it, about the time when working in Austin, playing on some well known country-pop hits in the late 1980's/early 1990's which you would recognize. I mentioned Slaid Cleeves, and we were talking tech money killing local music scenes 5 minutes later. He said, clear in my mind as when he said it, that the tech money was like a big baby Huey, and it came and sat on the real, local party in every spot it could find one, from raves to Burning Man. He also is involved with WFMU and said that "You New Yorker's sure do know your music." There is no local American scene, or UK for that matter, that I know of, with as much life and real local flavor as this music, in my opinion. Not a contest of Nations, but of how music is made or manufactured in different ones.

@@dsm5d723 you made this probably the most wholesome comment section on the internet

Someone who understands music 👌👍

Sherrie Thomson nice observation hammer on off technique is also used very frequently with the traditional instruments as well such as “saz” or “baglama”.

And...,

@@mete1099 I was just going to say, it reminds me of how the Oud is played, mostly focused on melodies rather than chords XD

I hear something deeper going on. Someone like Donald Fagan tried to do what they have built into the DNA of their musical tradition. Aside from Fagan's obsessive production and picking of half-improvised, impression-guided tracks, this music is great at using the tone of a guitar chord as a purely percussive and rhythmic feature, and then developing the melodies in the context of pitched rhythm. As you say, the hammer-on technique is natural for them. It only works with their syncopated hands-on drumming as embedded in the heartbeat of the music. I am reminded of the bongo on "Kings," ironically about Richard the Lionhearted and John the Usurper. Everyone hears the building medieval fanfare, but that bongo does it for me.

DudeRevolution yeah but consider the astetics they choose on the sound, the guitars and the guitar tones they use when they are using electric instruments

And what is the band in scene starting on this sketch?

Thank you man, I was looking for this sound since I was a kid! Cheers

they're using rock instruments and guitar-wise, the sound of these western musicians while creating melodies and rhythms that are super non-western, it's amazing! They sound way more like Hamza El Din (the only artist I know of that they sound like XD) or some bollywood music I've heard then any western music, but this video is helping to share their music with the world, it's fine if a hardcore classic rock fan made the video and hear's the kind of music he loves in their music, musical interpretation is really up to the individual listener. Though your take on their sound is definitely objectively better XD. I also think it's really cool to point out that that rock-n-roll evolved from traditional African music so this is really the genre coming full circle, and that's super incredible! I think this movement of rock music in Africa is what rock needs to evolve further as a genre because as we all know, western rock-n-roll is pretty dead.

man, that’s crazy, but I don’t remember askin.

Tinariwen is an algerian band bruh

​@@yvngxclaude They're just as arguably Malian, but it's a dipshit attempt at a correction because the whole point here is that Tuareg rock comes from a number of North African countries that share a common desert culture. The title of the video is literally "the best guitar music today is coming from the sahara desert". Which country is the Sahara? When trying to be a smartass, make sure you don't sound like a dumbass instead.

@aofire Didn't he steal all his stuff from NMAS?

Brother Tinariwens sounds familiar like our tribal music ...

The first time I saw them was at the end of the Ali Farka Toure documentary, 'Ca Coule De Source', released in 1999. I taped it off of the now defunct World TV channel out of San Francisco. It may still be available from Amazon.Fr. w/o the English sub-titles.

what mind?

Probably because you’ve taken to much acid

Right. Add them to the list. I saw them in Chicago last night. Hypnotic. Alive. Irresistible for dancing. Intensely repetitive but nobody cared because everyone was taken to another place. Repetitive, garage band, three cord marathons. And nobody cared. Everyone was in a trance.

I'd love to witness this first hand....it seems the culture of looking cool for strangers hasn't pervaded Africa yet.

I love singing. Not many people do it. My great niece used to sing Disney songs as I drove her around in the back seat of my car. Her voice was beautiful, pitch perfect, and it included the expressions and inflections of tone, nearly exactly. It was in her two and three year old baby voice, but it was truly remarkable. No one had ever encouraged her to sing. She just did it because she loved it and she had an ear for it. But something happened when she started preschool. At least half of her bright spirit was quenched and she stopped singing. I couldn't even coax her to sing. I didn't understand what was going on, but she wouldn't speak of it. When I asked her mother, she said it was because her father screams at her. (I found her testimony highly unreliable in all sorts of matters ever since, but that was the first time she told me something that made no sense.) Her father is about the most laid back guy I've ever met. I've never seen him raise his voice or his temper over anything. I bet his girlfriends often complain that he's too laid back, as my niece always did. I couldn't picture him screaming at her, but I hadn't seen him for a long time, and never crossed his path, or even knew where he was living. I think singing is a natural thing for everybody, but it gets repressed. It's much more telling than speech, or in other words, revealing of the soul and spirituality. And your choice of songs says a lot about you. You could probably make a soul voiceprint of a person's life by having them choose and sing a song - one for every year to capture the time element.

@@KD-ib4qq That's mostly because people there aren't strangers. Moving into industrialized cities changed a lot about the way we once interacted with other people, we've become used to not knowing our neighbours names.

where in Africa where you if i may ask ?

@@megrangekonstantinoskealeb8153 Mostly north western parts of the sahara

@CarGnome I was just about to write basically the exact same comment!

Yep. He won a Grammy in '94. People have been sleeping.

they did mention mali once but not enuf

Thx

The best guitar player ever

Or boubacar traoré

Except Raina Rai is Algerian

@@arxiii a desert dweller

Val Taam I didn’t know that. None of the wiki sites about Lotfi Attar are in English. We met, chatted and ate with a good number of Taureg at the festival. None of them identified themselves as coming from any specific country. They talked a lot about their horses, which were magnificent and we marvelled at their scarfs (which they taught us how to wind around our heads and cover our faces) My scarf was way too short. We listened to their music in the evenings, mostly acoustic guitars. Raïna Raï especially appealed to me

@@MrBcuzbcuz yeah well north africans share a lot, we look the same and speak the same, Raina rai was one of the first rai (algerian pop) acts in the west of Algeria, much closer to Morocco. Touaregs in the south are nomads they don't believe in borders, some of the nicest people ever.. Glad to hear that you enjoyed the show

Val Taam Thank you for your response. We absolutely loved the festival in Douz. The open, friendly, welcoming atmosphere was a pure joy. Every time we open our pictures the memories flood back. My wife got a chance to sit on one of their beautifully bedecked, stately horses. The festival included camel races, horse races and a multitude of cultural events that we had never seen before. We stayed three days and would love to go back. We stayed at a BnB where the husband, a Touareg, cooked all the meals. Goat stew with couscous, Yummm! Are you Touareg?

They can do a report on how this new young fella, Kurt Cobain, is gunna make amazing music for many decades to come.

Jonathan Hatch I’m from Seattle and live here still. Definitely agree with this

25 8, twelve gauge punk weight!!!

GETGETGETGETGOTGOTGOTGOT

you mentioning MFSC made trace back my way to this video over the course of a couple years: Alex Jones Memes > Jones Grips > Death Grips > Music from Saharan Cellphones > This Video. KZfaq recommendations sure can bring you a lot of interesting stuff.

Music on cellphones transferd via Bluetooth. Ahh my high school days

Info warrior jack the hacker

Start listening to some of the bands. There are so many connections to classic blues

I know what you mean ghaly , but if you listen verry close you will hear the resentments . And its a fact that blues commes from africa and the middle east . Pardon my bad spelling Please . Greetings from belgium .

Yes and it’s called ghnawi

There are definitely some pentatonic licks in there.

It is like upside down blues with the riffs doing from high notes to low notes.

Fun fact: There's enough sand in Northern Africa to cover the entire Sahara Desert.

Fun fact #2: Lake Chad translates to Lake Lake.

@@MrJohanGuzman Yes, and Bangladesh's national airline, Biman, translates into 'airline airline'. Go figure.

Yes, and when you say "The La Brea Tar Pits" you are saying "The The Tar Tar Pits" The Los Angeles Angles baseball team " would have been, yup, "The The Angeles Angels" had the Angels left Animal Slime, but I digress.

Yeah but if you say "the Sahara" do you mean "the Sahara desert" or just "the desert"?

Wow! That must've been a life-alteringly incredible show

@@ghazanferabbas7688 it was!

I saw him last year in Joshua Tree and absolutely blown away! Pure blues, pure emotion. My heart hurts when he plays

That’s was the greatest unexpected experience to happen in my life

I went to that show specifically to see him! I had seen Tame Impala before 😂

No, In most eastern music the instruments are right handed only and we tell left handed players to just flip the instrument and leave the strings flipped cause it gives you your own flair

@@b77ari75 in terms of sound or visual style?

Maybe he's left handed?

Jaqen H'ghar degenerate joke. NCR time

Mahdi Alghawi it’s a joke ... my god

Well said Mr. Balls.

@nynetynyne It is new to you,,but it must be a fews thousands years they play that music... Go listen in 1968 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stone made an album with Berbère musicians... Same music but acoustic... And there is a multitude of classical Berbère records you can find.. It is no real cutting edge but certainly refreshing and inspiring to listen,,very cool.! 😎 Regards..

@@johnballs729 well as far as Bombino goes, he actually did say in interviews that he was really inspired by Hendrix and especially Mark Knopfler

You don't play guitar do you?

@@beemelonhead1 Yes i do..

They know they about to get laid

Morrocon hash...

Right, Camel was one of the best bands out there.

Declan McKenna is what you need.

No rebellion on the west? Check out Machine Girl's album BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR...

@@chaotickreg7024 There is a difference between actual rebellion and angsty teens.

and stop recommending stuff for the 4th-60th time that I didn't want to look at.

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music seriously! How many times do i have to ignore it smh. Over and over

I just talked to KZfaq and he said he'll recommend whatever he damn well pleases. He didn't sound happy. Expect more Barry Manilow in your recommendations.

@@1972vulture thank you! Lol. I will enjoy the new recommendations.

lol...oh shit!

Haha 🤣

Damn!! Good one lol

Thank you for drastically altering the way I listen to the rest of this video

I can hear that but all I hear is Harold Ramis.

someone had to say it. i hear the similarities in a bunch of these songs

King Giz taking inspiration from the Touareg? That just makes me like them more 😄

I agree. Many of the songs sound like cousins of the lizard wizard

The electric guitar is still really in vogue/overused in all popular genres in the us tbh (sry im so lame lmao)

It's more like "hold my water skin"

Hold my mint tea

I don't think anyone says that in the USA. Keep making things up

@@lexingtonconcord8751 Actually, no less a personage than *Eric Clapton* said this in a Billboard interview last year, when he was told about declining guitar sales. He was probably half-kidding (he did also say, "maybe...") but he said it.

finally, they get a mention! Can't believe they weren't included in the video, as they're pretty big! probably 2nd only to tinariwen, from this video. I saw them at green man festival, and they smashed it so hard, they were immediately invited again the next year, where i i saw them again, and they smashed it again! Had the crowd eating out of their hands both times!