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THINKING OF BALI ATHMANE

THINKING OF BALI ATHMANE

January 3, 2015 | 7:59 p.m. APS Ten years after his death, a vibrant musical tribute was paid to him on the evening of Thursday, January 1, in Tamanrasset. It is the late Othman Bali, a monument of Tuareg song, as musicians Tassili and Ahaggar sang to further perpetuate his musical legacy. The artists brought their own modern touches to each of them by honoring Athman Bali. Organized by the fifth edition of the International Festival Abalessa Tin Hinan Arts Ahaggar (Fiataa), the evening was the first tribute to the one who brought the Tuareg music to the universality of the year tenth commemoration of his death, in front of a large audience. The troupe Tinissa Tamanrasset conducted by the lutenist Rezkaoui resumed and enriched the music Othmane Bali by introducing a violin there, accompanying lute, a bass guitar and karkabou. While preserving the style Bali, Tinissi group invites the public to revisit the poetry of traditional Tuareg music, dressed in a melody carried by mastering the lute and punctuated by particularly powerful percussion. Student of the missing musician Miloud Choughli, lutenist of the city of Djanet in the province of Illizi has, meanwhile, resumed the great success of Othmane Bali, whom he accompanied on stage for several years before creating his own group , enriching the rhythm section with a cajon. The musician said he had learned from his mentor to “enrich traditional targuies music without ever touching the soul and authenticity” while regretting that many young people “today abandon this style as well as learning the lute “. Nabil Bali, deceased son, also took the stage with his contemporary training consisting of drums, guitars and bass guitar which proposed a folk program sounds close to the modern Tuareg song. Also playing the lute with traditional troupe his father, Nabil Bali Bali Othman told that he had “imposed to find his own musical path” and had left him “more than 250 compositions and poems” that operate small little in his next albums he has recorded shortly in Djanet. Author, composer and performer born in 1953 in Djanet, Mbarek Othmani, whose real name was the initiator of a musical movement introducing the lute on traditional music and poems learned from his mother, great singer tindé with which he toured the world before dying in June 2005 during a flood in his hometown. Inaugurated on Tuesday, the 5th Fiataa continues until 4 January to Tidessi, Abalessa and In Salah to Tamanrasset groups still shows program as Toumast of Niger, Sahel Khoumaissa Tidalit Mauritania or Mali. http://www.jeune-independant.net/Pensee-a-Athmane-Bali.html]]>

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