Sahel
(Music CD)

Compact disc.

Title from disc label.

Oumara Moctar (p/k/a Bombino), vocals, guitar ; with additional musicians.

Recorded at Studio Hiba, Casablanca, Morocco; keyboard recording in Boston, additional vocal recording at Studio Youba, Brussels.

Guitar luminary and Tuareg folk hero Omara "Bombino" Moctar knows the nomadic life well. Being constantly on the road for his music while also perpetually on the move throughout the Sahel region of Africa is the norm. So, when the pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, Bombino found himself in an unfamiliar space: being in one place. What resulted was the follow-up to 2018's Deran, a record that turned Bombino into the first-ever Grammy-nominated artist from Niger. This new collection of songs, named after the African region spanning East-West from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is Bombino's most personal, powerful, and politically minded work to date. It's also his most sonically diverse, a quality he set out to achieve from the start, and one that is meant to directly mirror the complex tapestry of cultures and people that make up the region itself.

Sung in Tamashek.