A cold and windy day in Sahara

[kemkmia]

siempra la cultura berbere del Mundo ,

[SilvaMorasten]

:) this music sounds like stopped in time...

[theend1245]

ta mere !!

[aboubacar100]

prend temps d'écoute ce la force de l'inteligences

[nowhere8]

That instrument sounds very much like the wata (sp) from Eritrea

[rnstuffy]

really like the underlying beat

[richardyingren]

So very beautiful, thankyou.

[sflaila]

so, i would like to invite you Mr,"Euromessage" to visite my land .western Shara.speacially Laayoune city.i will be very happy to meet you.

Have you ever visited this land before?.

[rnstuffy]

what is the name of the string instrument that the man is shoon playing near the end of the video?

[sflaila]

.it's traveling to this Area.

[sflaila]

becauseif you want to get the means of this music, there is only resort

[sflaila]

I sear for suitable words to convey significances and symboles, But in any vain

[sflaila]

This music is pregnancy of significances and symboles.

[euromessage]

You are right! The traditional music is formed by generations living under these conditions in the many deserts of Sahara. As a traveler and a film making guest I could never understand fully. I could only sympathize.

[sflaila]

i understand this music.because i belong to the same land and weather.i am from western sahara.

[Calusarul]

Tell us more about that music, the lyrics, the people, please.

[Zyclon3000]

ce vrei sa sti despre ei? :)

[Calusarul]

orice stii despre "that music, the lyrics, the people" e binevenit!

[TAPS711]

What a hard life that must be...They do look a bit high on something...opium?

[euromessage]

Probably not!! Opium is in Asia. This is Sahara in Africa. If they were high, which I don´t think they are, its ganja or haschish. But these people of the desert do not need any drugs to sing. Erik

[VraiDiouf]

Yah the use of the Goge (1 string fiddle in hausa) or Njarka (same exact thing but in Songhai) is definately a desert thing. Whether you are Tamashek, Hausa, Fula, Songhai, Zarma, etc. the culture is very similar.

[anak1]

nice vid! where'd u take this video? Its interesting that the insruments the Tuareg use are sooo similar to those the Hausa use. i got sum vids on my page of traditional stuff. check it out if u have the time :)

[euromessage]

Hello Anak1,

The video is filmed in Essakane, near Timbuktu. I am not an expert nor in music or in singing, but you are right that the sound are similar. But The touareg, the dogons and the Hausa people, I think, for a while lived very near each other.

If possible I will tomorrow in my channel publish parts of a perfomance from the Desert Festival 2006 in Essakane, where you could hear almost the same words and singing expressions as in your video with a traditional Songhai dance.

Erik