sublime frequencies niger sahara africa tuareg group inerane

A film by Hisham Mayet


Excerpts from the sublime frequencies dvd avaliable at sublimefrequencies.com



A celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, this film showcases many of Niger's venerable music styles. Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani Folk, and Roadhouse Gospel Rave-ups are some of the segments included in this latest "Folk Cinema" classic from Sublime Frequencies! Filmed in December of 2004 on location in Niger, Hisham Mayet delivers a spontaneous, raw, and inspiring collection of images, music, and ceremony (again with a single camera presentation) from a nation mired in poverty and continual post-colonial disappointment. Quoting from Mayet's liner notes: "This is not music as commodity, this is music as survival. There is a saying in Niger that goes, "when we die we know we are going to heaven because we already live in Hell" well I think its more like the purgatory that we all live in and they sure have managed to transcend with an incredible natural resource: Music. Dig it!"

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[ancientpride01]

So you haters and fucking racists that are always trying to attribute the beauty and genius of Africa to some lost white tribe....save it...where one to you. Ain't nothing white about the rhythms of Niger. We are proud of being African and Tuareg and Fulani and Bambara and Maure and Oromo and Somali and Zulu and etc... So take your stinking white man complex and shove it up your ass. Rock on my beloved Africa, stay united and keep the enemy at bay.

[VraiDiouf]

That may be true that they listened to John Lee Hooker, that does not change the fact that blues is purely African and came from Africa. It has been played in this region for thousands of years.

[tamaduni]

@ancientpride01 The oppressors are always trying to draw divisions among us that way we are disunited and weak then they come and still our resources .......AFRICANS UNITE DONT FALL FOR THE FOLLY ....Africa will always stay melanated till the end of time

[Ali Muhareb]

So dope.

[annittatht]

AND WHO THE FUCK CARES??? HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[levijames09]

oky doky........this aint sublime???? anyone got a grenade?

[Isis Uma]

amoooooor



[katelattraction]

Fucking kick ass wallpaper in that early piece. Surreal! Thanks for capturing all this magic Hisham!!!!xoxxox

[sigmapleide]

I love Morocco.

[sigmapleide]

I'm white, I'm not racist. Calm down, brother.

[keithslum]

0:21-1:53

Amazing- melody to riff to rhythm to voices

Raw and beautiful. Beauty does exist