Search - Terakaft :: Akh Issudar

This is fantastic

Edenmarc | Oakland, CA | 10/25/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's really a stunning collection of songs, with haunting and beautiful lyrics and inspired, multi-layered guitar work. Profound, bluesy homespun rootsy music, exotic but somehow familiar. If you like Tinariwen, you will definitely dig this as it's a similar sound. But it also has its own distinctive, magical feel to it that sets it apart. Deserves every bit of all five stars Of all the desert music from Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Western Sahara, etc., this is right up with anything..."

On par with Tinariwen...

grasshopper | brooklyn, ny United States | 11/04/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Beautiful new album of desert blues from another outstanding Tuareg group Terakaft. Consistently brilliant from start to finish, with wonderful guitar playing and haunting trance like melodies, this has to be one of the finds of the year. Features some former members of Tinariwen and a similar groove. Fans of Tinariwen and Etran Finatwa will find much to like in Terakaft, easily one of the best Tuareg bands. Get it, you definitely won't regret it!"

Desert Soul

Dr. Debra Jan Bibel | Oakland, CA USA | 11/05/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"We had hardly heard of the Tuareg nomads of the southern Sahara a decade ago, a refugee people living in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. But then our ears were open with the group Tinariwen with their feeling of blues and trance. Today, we are blessed with several other bands: Tartit, Etran Finatawa, and now Terakaft. This music uniquely communicates their struggles, their restricted travels, their life with and away from friends, and their love of the desert. With their close familial association with Tinairwen, Terakaft shares a similar sound, although less funky and rambunctious and closer to steady and quieter gnawa trance. It is difficult to chose which group or album is the better, since it all depends on one's mood. I echo the other reviewers in stating that Terakaft's Akh Issudar is an excellent, sophisticated album of desert soul. I dig it a lot."