And the day has come. From the 10th of January, 2008, part of the new album by Aziza Brahim, entitled Mi Canto (My Chanting), is available for listening in her Myspace:http://www.myspace.com/azizabrahim.And to celebrate it, Aziza has a special present for you: you will be able to freely download her track Regreso, included in her new album.Furthermore, Aziza would like that the track would be downloaded by as many people as possible. Thus, in one day, the saharawi music will have a place in internet, and will remind all of us that there is still a people (the saharawi people) which resists the injustice in the middle of the desert.
Y llegó el dÃa. Desde el 10 de enero de 2008, parte del nuevo álbum de Aziza Brahim, titulado Mi Canto, se puede escuchar en su Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/azizabrahim.Y para celebrarlo, Aziza os tiene un regalo muy especial: podréis descargar gratuitamente su tema Regreso, incluido en dicho álbum.Además Aziza quisiera que cuantos más descargárais el tema mejor: para que en algún dÃa, la música saharaui tenga su espacio en internet, y sirva para recordarnos a todos que todavÃa existe un pueblo que resiste a la injusticia en medio del desierto.Aziza is a Saharawi from Western Sahara, born in a refugee camp in Algeria. At the age of 11 Aziza received a schoolarship to study in Cube where she spent seven years, before abandoning her studies in order to dedicate herself to music. She won the first prize in a national song competition in a cultural festival of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic - the self-proclaimed Saharawi state, exiled in the refugee camps and recognized by over 80 countries. Aziza did her first recordings for the Saharawi National Radio in the refugee camps and from there came her first tour outside the camps in Mauritania and Algeria as part of the National Saharawi Music Group. In 1998 the spanish record company Nubenegra publish the trilogy "Saharauis", including two songs from her. After that she made several tours with the National Saharawi Music Group "Leyuad" in Europe from 1998 to 2004. In 2005 she made her first experience mixing the traditional music from Western Sahara with another musics, with the Latin Jazz music group Yayabo. Now she's working with her new group, Gulili Mankoo (a mix of Western Sahara music, rythms from Senegal and Blues & Rock music) in her new forthcoming record.Aziza's family come from El Aaiun, the capital of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara. Aziza's mother fled the Moroccan invasion in 1975 and survived the 1976 Moroccan bombardments of napalm against the Saharawi civilians who had sought refugee deep in the eastern desert of Western Sahara. Aziza never met her father who stayed behind the occupied Western Sahara and went on to remarry and have children... brothers and sisters that Aziza has never met, due to the 2500 km long wall in the Western Sahara, that divides every Saharawi family and was built by the Moroccans to defend their occupation.
Saharaui. Nacida el 9 de junio de 1976 en los campamentos de refugiados en Tinduf,en Argelia. Estudió en Cuba durante 7 años. Volvió a los campamentos en 1995. Ese mismo año ganó el Primer Premio Nacional de la Canción en el festival de cultura de la RASD. A partir de ahàpasa a formar parte del Grupo Nacional Saharaui haciendo su primera gira internacional.En 1998 y con el Ministerio de Cultura de la R.A.S.D.,la discográfica Nubenegra publica la trilogÃÂa Saharauis. En el Ãlbum A pesar de las heridas, aparecen sus canciones "Dios MÃo" y "La tierra derrama lágrimas". Con el grupo Leyuad realiza su primera gira en Europa ese mismo año,actuando en Francia,Alemania y España. De vuelta a los campamentos,realiza unas grabaciones para la Radio de Tinduf con el grupo Tuareg de Tamarrast en 1999. Desde el año 2000 reside en España, realizando giras con Leyuad en España (2001),Francia (2002 y 2003) y compartiendo cartel en el Festival Internacional de Moers (Alemania,2003) con Ojos de Brujo y Cheb Khaled. Desde 2006 trabaja con su nuevo proyecto musical,tras sus experiencias con Yayabo y otros músicos, con el grupo Gulili Mankoo, con músicos saharauis, españoles, colombianos y senegaleses. Su EP "Mi Canto" saldrá próximamente a la luz.
