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Group Anmataff - Tinariwen

from Sahel Sounds Label Sampler by Various Artists

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From the 'Music from Saharan Cellphones" compilation
Available at sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones

Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert.

In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all-purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high-speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, playback songs on tinny built-in speakers, and swap files in a very literal peer to peer Bluetooth wireless transfer.

The songs chosen for the compilation were some of the highlights -- music that is immensely popular on the unofficial mp3/cellphone network from Abidjan to Bamako to Algiers, but have limited or no commercial release. They're also songs that tend towards this new world of self-production -- Fruity Loops, home studios, synthesizers, and Autotune.

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from Sahel Sounds Label Sampler, released June 26, 2019

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