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Tartit

From The Sahara With Love

About Me

Nothing is more evocative of the fascinating expanses of the Sahara desert than the music of Tartit, a Tuareg band consisting of five women and four men residing in the Timbuktu region. Tartit play hypnotic, trance-inducing music: the women sit down, sing, and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums, while the men sing and play string instruments, acoustic and electric. The men are veiled, the women aren't. Tuareg society is one of the few throughout Africa in which women are allowed to choose (and divorce) their husbands. The band was formed in a refugee camp, during the Tuareg uprising in the early '90s. Tartit have toured Europe several times, most recently as part of the Desert Blues shows. The album was recorded in Bamako and in the northern Mali desert by (Congotronics producer) Vincent Kenis, on his mobile studio.

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Member Since: 9/15/2006
Band Website: crammed.be/craworld/crw34/index.htm
Band Members: Fadimata Walett Oumar : vocals, tinde drum. Walett Oumar Zeinabou: vocals, tinde drum. Mama Walett Amoumine: vocals, tinde drum. Fadimata W. Mohamedun (Fatma): vocals, tinde drum. Tafa Al Hosseini: vocals, imzad. Amanou : 3-string tehardent lute, vocals. Ag Mohamed Idwal: 4-string tehardent lute. Mossa Ag Mohamed: vocals. Mohamed Issa ag Oumar: lead electric guitar, vocals.
Influences: Watch Tartit perform a Take Away Show on La Blogotheque !...

Tartit appeared in the "Desert Blues" film (on ARTE TV) and in the multimedia performance at the Quai Branly Museum (Paris) last June:

Sounds Like: Get Tartit's "Abacabok" CD

or download it here: ..
Record Label: Crammed Discs /
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tartit on La Blogotheque

Tartit performed a "Take Away Show" (Concert à emporter) on La Blogotheque), as part of a Crammed Discs series. See them teleporting a tiny Paris dressing room to the Sahara, and turning it into a T...
Posted by Tartit on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:13:00 PST

Tartit to appear at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris

Tartit will appear at the prestigious Quai Branly Museum in Paris on June 14, 15, 16 and 17, as part of a multimedia performance entitled "Desert Blues", which also features Afel Bocoum and Habib Koit...
Posted by Tartit on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:39:00 PST