A cold and windy day in Sahara

Some days in the desert are not very nice. No sun but bitter winds and sand everywhere. It is like time has stopped, only the touareg music goes on and on for ever.

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• Sahara
• desert
• music
• camels
• touareg
• sand
• wind
• Mali
• Essakane
• Euromessage
• Africa

[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.

[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

[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

[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

[Calusarul]

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

[Zyclon3000]

ce vrei sa sti despre ei? :)

[Calusarul]

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

[rnstuffy]

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