Terakaft
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Année 2007
Janvier
Ven 12 Le Festival au Désert / Essakane Tombouctou (Mali)
Ven 19 La Fête du Chameau Tessalit (Mali)
Février
Sam 17 Festival Kayes (Mali)
1ère tournée
Mai
Sam 19 Festival Musiques Métisses Angoulême (16)
Ven 25 Centre Culturel Le Quatrain Haute-Goulaine (44)
Mer 30 Enregistrement au Club/ Le Chabada Angers (49)
Juin
Jeu 7 Le VIP (résidence) Saint-Nazaire (44)
Ven 8 Le VIP Saint-Nazaire (44)
Dim 10 Fête Bio (+ Lo’Jo) Mûrs-Erigné (49)
Mer 13 Promotion Paris
Mar 19 Le Quai (+ Afel Bocum) Angers (49)
Jeu 21 Fête de la Musique Saint-Junien (87)
Ven 22 Zoo de Doué Doué-la-Fontaine (49)
Sam 23 Festival Peuples en Mouvement Tours (37)
Juillet
Mar 3 Promotion Paris
Mer 4 L’Alimentation Générale Paris (11ème)
Sam 7 Festival Voix de Pays Fougères (35)
Sam 14 Fête de la République Métissée Paris (20ème)
15-30 Studio / Enregistrement 2ème CD Candé (49)
Août
Dim 5 Festival Bastid’Art / Staccato Miramont de Guyenne (47)
Mar 7 Zoo de Doué Doué-la-Fontaine (49)
Jeu 9 Départ de Terakaft
2ème tournée
Novembre
1-30 Studio / Enregistrement 2ème CD Candé (49)
Décembre
Ven 7 L’Olympia (support Tinariwen) Paris (9ème)
Sam 8 Salle Jean Carmet (support Tinariwen) Mûrs-Erigné (49)
Mar 11 Satellit Café Paris (11ème)
Année 2008
3ème tournée / Sortie du 2ème CD
Mars
22-25 Résidence / Mistral Palace Valence (26)
Mer 26 Mistral Palace Valence (26)
Jeu 27 Festival Buenaventura Iles Canaries (E)
Avril
Sam 5 Les 4 écluses Dunkerque (59)
Dim 6 Le Bacardi Carnoët (22)
Ven 11 File 7 Magny-le-Hongre (77)
Sam 12 France Culture / La Nuit des Veilleurs de Nuit Paris (16ème)
Mer 16 Direct TV Angers7 Angers (49)
Sam 19 Café-Music Mont-de-Marsan (40)
Dim 20 Centre Culturel Le Dôme Saint-Avé (56)
Lun 21 Sortie “Akh issudar” en France (Tapsit / Anticraft)
21-22-23 Résidence Le Chabada Angers (49)
Ven 25 Le Run Ar Puns (+ DJ Nadia) Chateaulin (29)
4ème tournée / Festivals d’été
Juin
Dim 22 Arrivée à Paris
23-24 Résidence Le Chabada Angers (49)
Sam 28 La Bizzart Eurre (26)
Juillet
Sam 5 Afrikafestival Hertme (NL)
Ven 11 Festival Bêtes de Scène / Le Noumatrouff Mulhouse (68)
16-17 Captation d’images / Scène / La Fontaine du Mont Mûrs-Erigné (49)
Jeu 24 Festival / Plein air / Place Jeanne d’Arc Metz (57)
Ven 25 WOMAD UK / Charlton Park Malmesbury (Wiltshire, UK)
Mer 30 Festival Kiosque à Musiques La-Voulte (07)
Jeu 31 Festival Je dis Music Romans (26)
Août
Ven 1er Retour au Mali
Année 2009
5ème tournée
Mai
Sam 9 Kulturzentrum Schwülper (Allemagne)
Mer 13 Centre Culturel Helsinki (Finlande)
Sam 23 Maailma Päev Festival Tallinn (Estonie)
Dim 24 Village Mondial Festival Helsinki (Finlande)
Mar 26 Machinenhaus Berlin (Allemagne)
Ven 29 Club Moments / Radio Bremen Bremen (Allemagne)
Dim 31 L’Atelier-Tampon Paris (11ème)
Juin
Jeu 11 La Tannerie Bourg-en-Bresse (01)
Ven 12 L’Arrêt Public des Platanes Lyon (69)
Sam 13 L’Arrêt Public des Platanes Lyon (69)
Juillet
Ven 3 Adjololo / Les Fromentinières Candé (49)
Jeu 9 Enregistrement France-Musique Paris (16ème)
Sam 11 La Guinguette à Jean Montjean-sur-Loire (49)
Sam 18 La Guinguette à Jean Montjean-sur-Loire (49)
Dim 26 Am Schluss Festival Thun (CH)
Lun 27 El Lokal Zurich (CH)
Août
Dim 9 Theatron Music Summer Munich (Allemagne)
Ven 14 Time in Jazz Festival Berchidda, Sardinia (Italie)
Sam 15 Time in Jazz Festival Berchidda, Sardinia (Italie)
Dim 16 Sconfinart / Tabu Festival Pegognaga, Mn (Italie)
Sam 22 Alafia Afrikafestival Hambourg (Allemagne)
Dim 23 Trommlerfestival Stuttgart (Allemagne)
Septembre
Mer 9 Live radio show Radio Helsinki (Finlande)
Dim 13 Live radio show Lähiradio (Finlande)
Lun 14 Savoy Teattri Helsinki (Finlande)
Sam 26 Arki Teattri Helsinki (Finlande)
Lun 28 Club Liberté Helsinki (Finlande)
Octobre
Ven 23 Mokka Club Thun (CH)
Sam 24 Treibhaus Club Innsbrück (Austria)
Novembre
Ven 6 Les Nuits Africaines d’Alger Alger (Algérie)
Décembre
Jeu 24 La Fête du Chameau Timiaouine (Algérie)
Jeu 31 La Fête du Chameau Tessalit (Mali)
Année 2010
6ème tournée
Avril
Sam 24 Festival des Arts Oasiens Figuig, Maroc
Dim 25 Festival des Arts Oasiens Figuig, Maroc
Lun 26 Festival des Arts Oasiens Jerada, Maroc
Mai
2,3,4 Résidence Le Chabada Angers (49), France
Sam 8 WOMAD Festival Cacérés, Espagne
Sam 15 Festival Sirocco Perpignan (66), France
17-28 Enregistrement 3ème disque / Studio Les Froms Candé (49), France
Sam 29 Festival Sahara rocks / La Dame de Canton Paris (13ème), France
Dim 30 Hanna-Bi Club Ravenna, Italie
Mer 2 Retour au Mali
7ème tournée
Septembre
Jeu 9 Arrivée à Orly
Ven 10 Les Nuits du Ramadan / Machinenhaus Berlin, Allemagne
Dim 12 Festival Les Accroche-Coeurs Angers (49), France
Sam 18 Festival Nomades Bordeaux (33), France
Sam 25 Festival Musique & Vin naturel Thouarcé (49), France
Lun 27 Retour au Mali
8ème tournée
Novembre
Jeu 4 Arrivée à Paris-Orly
Ven 5 Café Mokka Thun, Suisse
Sam 6 Le Bourg Lausanne, Suisse
Dim 7 Croque-lune Café Savigny-sur-Braye (41), France
Sam 13 WOMAD Festival Las-Palmas (Islas Canarias), Espagne
Mar 16 La Dame de Canton Paris (13ème), France
Jeu 25 Teatro Miotto Spilimbergo, Italie
Ven 26 Interzona Club Verona, Italie
Sam 27 Maison Musique Rivoli, Italie
Lun 29 Retour au Mali
Année 2011
MAI
Ven 27 CCF Bamako, Mali
JUIN
Mer 1er Arrivée à Orly
Ven 3 OFF-Fest Sköpje, Macedonia
5-8 Résidence Le Chabada Angers (49), France
Mar 7 Showcase Le Chabada Angers (49), France
9-24 Studio d'enregistrement Les Froms Candé (49), France
Dim 26 Amsterdam Roots Festival Amsterdam, Holland
JUILLET
Sam 2 El Local Zurich (Suisse)
3-15 Studio d'enregistrement Les Froms Candé (49), France
Lun 18 Camping La Grande Côte La-Barre-de-Monts (85), France
Dim 24 Le Cabaret Sauvage / Festival Sin Fronteras Paris (19ème), France
Mer 27 Concert sous la tente avec Faris Amine / RAI 3 Bologne, Italie
Jeu 28 Oltremare Festival Elba Island (Toscane), Italie
Sam 30 Juicy Beats Festival Dortmund, Germany
AOUT
Ven 5 Les Rendez-vous de l'Eté Vendôme (41), France
Lun 8 Mundus Festival Correggio (Emilie-Romagne), Italie
Mer 17 Les Rendez-vous de l'Eté Les-Ponts-de-Cé (49), France
Jeu 18 Départ à Orly pour le Mali
SEPTEMBRE
Lun 26 Arrivée à Orly
Mar 27 La Mix Box Paris (18ème), France
28-29 Promotion radio Paris
OCTOBRE
4-7 Résidence au Fuzz'Yon La-Roche-sur-Yon (85), France
Ven 7 Fuzz'Yon La-Roche-sur-Yon (85), France
Mer 12 Le Chabada (+ Justin Adams) Angers (49), France
Jeu 13 Live / FIP Paris (16ème)
Ven 21 Global Copenhagen, Denmark
Lun 31 La Cave à Musique (+ Fool's Gold) Macon (71), France
NOVEMBRE
Ven 4 Les Abattoirs (+ Vieux Farka Touré) Bourgoin-Jallieu (69), France
Sam 5 La Spirale Fribourg, Suisse
Ven 11 Festival Les Rendez-Vous Soniques (+ Stromae) St-Lo (50), France
Mar 15 Festival de l'Imzad Tamanrasset, Algérie
Ven 18 Festival noBorder01Brest Brest (29), France
Sam 19 Le Jardin Moderne Rennes (35), France
23-30 Studio à Candé (enregistrement nouveau CD)
DECEMBRE
Ven 2 Festival GeneriQ / bar Besançon
Sam 3 Festival GeneriQ / La Rodia Besançon
Dim 4 Festival GeneriQ / Le Shades Kingersheim
Lun 5 Festival GeneriQ / appartement Montbelliard
Mar 6 Retour au Mali Orly - Tapsit
Since Tinariwen won the Uncut Music Award in 2009, an endless camel train of Tuareg guitar bands has emerged from the sands, inspired by their loping rhythms and snaking guitars. Terakaft, whose two guitarists guested on Tinariwen's award winning "Imidiwan / Companions", didn't stray far from the core sound on their first two albums. But the group's third release, "Aratan n Azawad" (WORLD VILLAGE / ****) reveals a band bravely trying to expand the hirizon of the desert blues. The guitar sound has sharpened, creating an almost Californinan chime in places and they blend western pop influences into the Tinariwen template without lessening its essential mystery. "Idiya idohena" bounces to a rhythm oddly reminiscent of T.Rex's "Ride a white swan" (yes, really) while "Akoz imgharen" almost strays into Dick Dale territory. On the other hand, the trance-like swirl of "Wer essinen" is as fine an example of classic Tuareg blues-rock as you'll find.
Nigel WILLIAMSON - UNCUT
..."From the haunting, murmured introduction to the cool, acoustic guitar and bass driven closing track, Akh issudar is a coherent collection of songs that possess deep, bluesy tones and a natural rhythm, and at its best it's about as good as Tuareg blues gets."
Con Murphy - fROOTS
Discussing Terakaft on BBC Radio 3 recently, I was asked if the world really needed another desert blues guitar band. I replied that it was an odd question, because nobody would think of saying that we don't need Coldplay because we've got Radiohead. That Terakaft sound almost exactly like Tinariwen is unsurprising. The first time I met the band leader, Kedou, was in a desert tent in 2001, when he was a key member of Tinariwen and had just contributed four compositions to their debut album. He then left to wander nomadically around Algeria and Lybia before returning to Mali where he teamed up with Diara, another former Tinariwen guitarist, and two younger Touareg guitar slingers, Diara's nephew Sanou and bassist Rhissa, to form Terakaft.
There are plenty more overlaps : Tinariwen's Ibrahim Ag Alhabib wrote one of the album's songs and two tracks are sung by Inteyeden, another Tinariwen founder. If you're determined to find minor differences between the two bands, Terakaft are perhaps even more rock'n'roll than Tinariwen in their use of Hendrix style guitar effects. And the mood is arguably more militant - the angriest song, "Islegh teghram", written by Ibrahim, finds him castigating the Touareg leadership for "remaining passive while their people suffer". A final connection lies in the title, which completes a proverb started by Tinariwen on their last album : "Aman iman, akh issudar" - "Water is life, milk is survival". Think of the two albums as similarly vital companions.
Nigel Williamson
- Songlines
..." This is brooding, dishevelled music that sometimes sounds as if it might just fall to pieces, but never does."
Jamie Renton
- fROOTS
Who would ever have thought that Tuareg blues might become a hot commodity one day. But with the critical and commercial success of the guitar-driven Tinariwen group around the globe, it's only natural that other Targi bands would surface out of the Sahara.
terakaft has been playing their six strings as long as Tinariwen, but has only just arrived in the rest of the world. three guitars strong, they are the Lynyrd Skynyrd of Saharan rock'n'roll.
The band's sound is much more powerful than that of Tinariwen: electric guitars are front and center in the mix, striking a blend of drone notes and chords along with boogie-style riffs that bring to mind John Lee Hooker playing in the world's largest sandbox. all five band members harmonize on vocals, with chants and eerie melody lines that can send a shiver down your spine.
The sum is African blues that are primal - and even chilling. This is at once tribal music and rock and roll that has made a journey around the world and back through time and space. MD - Vintage Guitar
Latecomers to the Tuareg nomad rock scene, Terekaft feature founder members of this genre's best known band, Tinariwen. Comprising three jangling guitars, a lot of droning multi-layered singing and not much else, Terakaft's sound is spine-chillingly vast - the starkest and most complelling excursion yet into the sonic world of the Sahara. Download this "Ténéré wer tat zinchegh". Mark Hudson - The Daily Telegraph
The Tuareg guitar heroes Tinariwen continue to spawn spin-off groups. Last year we heard from Toumast, now there are Terakaft, with two Tinariwen founders in their line-up. Terakaft are smoother and shinier than their precursors, though "Intidgagen" has the characteristic Touareg guitar groove and "Haran bardan" hides a hypnotic solo. They are at their best, though, when most different to the template laid down by Tinariwen. "Tahra a issasnanane" is a pained, acoustic love song. - Financial Times
A strange place, Mali -it's where rebel music sounds like Eric Clapton. That's some of the story with Terakaft. Comprised of two founder members of Tinariwen (the title of this album means "Milk is survival", a nod to that band's "Water is life"), the band are if anything still further off the map. Here, snaking guitar figures and loping rhythms both remind of the music's heritage, but polished opening tracks "Akh issudar" and "Ténéré wer tat zinchegh" (the latter sounding like a sand-blown Blind Faith, almost) illustrate just how well this dusty music shines, when buffed up in the studio. - UNCUT
Mené par Kedou Ag Ossad, ancien de Tinariwen, Terakaft accouche d'un deuxième album prodigieux. Tirant toutes les capacités du studio, multipliant les lignes de guitares incisives et les mélodies de voix planantes, Terakaft signe un album totalement habité, l'un des plus beaux du rock touareg. BB - MUZIQ
Le rock touareg n'en finit pas de révéler la diversité de ses arborescences. Terakaft prend ses racines à la source, puisqu'il s'agit du projet de deux des membres historiques de Tinariwen, Kedou, présent sur les "Tisdas sessions", et Diara, frère d'Inteyeden, mythique co-fondateur du groupe. Ils entrecroisent leurs guitares et leurs voix avec deux compères pour un album qui ferait passer le dernier Tinariwen pour un monument de surproduction. Ici, l'univers est si dépouillé que l'on entend les nuages de poussière voler dans le studio. Le langage musical demeure ce blues mélancolique assommé de chaleur, à la langueur si exacerbée qu'elle en devient poétique. Le désert ne tarde pas à surgir, où les mirages sont parfois de véritables oasis. BB - MONDOMIX
Discography
Discography :
Bismilla, the Bko Sessions (2007), Tapsit
Akh Issudar (2009), Tapsit
Terakaft Live (2008), Re-aktion
Aratan n Azawad (2011), Tapsit / World Village – Harmonia Mundi
Kel Tamasheq (2012) World Village - Harmonia Mundi (to be release in September)
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TERAKAFT
Kel Tamasheq
In the language of the Sahara the name of the group Terakaft, founded in Mali in 2001, means caravan and Kel Tamashek refers to those who speak Tamashek, meaning The Tuareg People. Electric riffs swirl, twirl and prance through these songs that far from stereotypical clichés, recount the story of an authentic people. British guitarist and producer Justin Adams captures the trance-like motion that feeds Terakaft's blues soaked desert-rock, music that is also the hallmark of Africa's last remaining nomads.
Kel Tamashek is Terakaft’s fourth album but first and foremost, it is an homage to the Tuareg People who suffered from decolonization. Kel Tamashek means the Tuareg, or to be more exact, those who speak tamashek.
Desert guitarists have forever been celebrating their despair, but it is the outcry of the group Tinariwen that alerted the world. Diara, Terakaft’s leader, had worked with that legendary group for some twenty years. When they hit the international scene in 2000, he stepped back to accompany his young nephew Sanou, who had just created the group Terakaft. Diara had taught him to play the guitar as he did to Abdallah, Sanou’s younger half-brother and Terakaft’s bass player for the past three years.
Since Kedou’s departure, another former guitarist of Tinariwen who joined the band until 2008, Terakaft has become a family affair but has also deviated from Tinariwen’s history. Thanks to Diara, Terakaft has come to now embody the historical desert blues songbook written by him and his brother Inteyeden, who died fifteen years ago. And Sanou plays his uncle’s repertoire like no one else can.
Terakaft is structured like a rock band. Regardless of the sound effects, which have little to do with desert wind and storms, three electric guitars, including a bass, cling to the rhythm of the calabash or djembe. A rock band from the Sahara with a vast repertoire, Terakaft’s previous release, Aratan n Azawad revealed only a few of those intense pieces. Their repertoire is quite endless, and from time to time very often, a rare pearl appears.
In the summer of 2011, Terakaft dove into its fourth album, Kel Tamasheq, with an abundance of songs and experience gained from its past work in the studio. Under the watchful eye of guitarist Jean-Louis Livenais (Akeïkoi) and owner of Adjololo studio in Anjou, the album was finally recorded in autumn of the same year, under the direction of Justin Adams.
The songs were written by the three guitarists. Diara of course, who added a few older tunes, Sanou and Abdallah, both of whom composed multiple tracks and who trade off playing bass and guitar on the album, as they do on stage.
Justin Adams is quite well-known in the milieu. In addition to his work with Les Triaboliques (with Ben Mandelson and Lu Edmonds). He now plays with the group Juju, where the other Ju happens to be the Gambian virtuoso of the one-string luth, Juldeh Camara. Prior to that, Justin Adams performed with Robert Plant and was one of the founders of the first Festival in the Desert, where he recorded the famous Radio Tisdas Sessions with Tinariwen, assisted by Lo’Jo. That was followed by Aman iman, Tinariwen’s third album. If Justin Adams understands the history and affiliation that exists between desert groups more than anyone else, he knows how to put his talent and aura to use on a great musical production. Whether Tuareg guitar, Tinariwen or Terakaft’s guitars, or those of any other group, Justin Adams has a real feel for Tuareg guitar and a keen sense of the trance flowing through its music. He is particularly attentive to the sound which is beautifully treated in recording sessions. His impressive “English sound” is a balanced mix of primary blues with the potential of Tuareg electric guitars energy that demonstrates his ability to bring out that trance feeling, to develop it and go beyond.
The demos recorded in August of 2011 included nearly twenty songs from which t
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