Seymali, Noura - Tzenni [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.TZENNI in Hassaniya means to circulate, to spin, to turn. Itu2019s the name for a whirling dance performed to the music of Moorish griots, often under khaima tents thrown up for street gatherings in the sandy quartiers of Nouakchott and out across the wide deserts of Mauritania. Tzenni is an orbit, the movement of the earth around the sun, the daily progression of light and dark, lunar cycles, tides and winds. Tzenni, the dance, comes forth as the cyclical trajectory of a Moorish musical gathering builds to a fervorous pitch. Itu2019s a word whose expansive valence reminds us how only the most basic reality can create such romantic metaphor.

rrProduced and recorded across an appropriately dizzying array of locations and social contexts (New York City, Dakar, Nouakchott) the album Tzenni is a contemporary articulation of Moorish griot music from Mauritaniau2014an artform that has been evolving and gaining momentum for centuriesu2014as voiced by Noura Mint Seymali, an artist profoundly steeped in its history and rigorously devoted to its global resonance.

rrNoura Mint Seymali comes from a long line of visionary musicians. Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, her father, was a scholar-artist instrumental in opening Mauritanian music to the world; devising the first system for Moorish melodic notation, adapting music for the national anthem, and composing works popularized by his wife (Nourau2019s step-mother), the great Dimi Mint Abba. From her precocious beginnings as a teenaged backing vocalist with Dimi Mint Abba, Noura Mint Seymali now drives the legacy forward, re-calibrating Moorish music for our contemporary moment. Her bandu2019s arrangements, rigor, and experimental spirit may be understood as a continuation of the tradition of Seymali, Dimi, her grandmother Mounina, and countless others.

rrTogether with her husband, heroic guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly, who brings the force of yet another powerful branch of Moorish musical lineage, the band on this recording was conceived as a distillation of essential elements, the u201cazawanu201d and the backbeat. The ardine & tidinit (or guitar) together are the u201cazawan,u201d the leading ensemble of Moorish traditional music, while bass & drums, played here by Ousmane Tourxe9 and Matthew Tinari, fortify it with genre transcendent funk and a basic pop urgency. Tzenni re-visits several classics of the Moorish repertoire, but does so within a novel formation, conversant in the pop idiom, and with Noura Mint Seymaliu2019s personal history interwoven throughout. The practice of aligning music to a given socio-historical and personal moment is an essential charge of the iggawen, or griot, and, we believe, of artists everywhere.

Eguetmar

Tzenni

El Barm

El Madi

El Mougelmen

Hebebeb (Zrag)

Soub Hanallah

Tikifite

Char'aa

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• Genre: Folk & Country
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 4030433601624

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