Festival in the Desert - 01/05/03
BBC Radio Festival in the Desert, Essakane, Mali
BBC Radio Festival in the Desert, Essakane, Mali
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Set I
There are two radio shows about the Festival in the Desert here. The first is from the BBC, Recorded by Andy Kershaw on location. Broadcast January 8, 2003 on BBC3. The second is from Afropop Worldwide, broadcast April 18, 2003 on WBEZ in Chicago (public radio).
The first disc was received as a vine, originally billed as Robert Plant and the Tuaregs, but Robert Plant plays a relatively small role in things. Two songs of the BBC show. Very cool, though.
The majority of the music on here is the electric guitar-based, bluesy, trance-inducing sort of music most commonly associated (here in the US, anyway) with Ali Farka Toure. It's incredible stuff. Tons of soul, complexity, emotion, interesting sounds. And picturing it happening on a stage in the desert...
Here's what the BBC site has to say about this show:
"Timbuktu's 'Festival In The Desert' and a 'Mali travelog' are two wonderful new additions to Andy Kershaw's archive of on-location features. Broadcast in Jan 2003, the 1st programme saw him take a trip to one of the world's oldest music festivals. There is a selection of music from eminent artists such as Ali Farka Tour?, Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Tartit and Afel Bocum. The festival itself is held in a nearby oasis in the southern Sahara Desert, and is the traditional gathering of the Touareg people, who sing powerfully hypnotic songs about the pain and pleasures of desert life."
(the "mali travelogue" program referred to is included in the extras folder as the RealAudio file wandymali.rm)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/desert.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/andykershaw.shtml is Andy's main page.
There is a ton of info in the html files included in the extra stuff folder.
programma.html has the schedule.
bios.htm has the...bios.
The two Afropop dispatches are rundowns of the whole festival. Excellent. (There was no dispatch 1 on their site.)
Also tons of pictures, including lots of Robert Plant, who looks more and more like JRR Tolkein.
DISC ONE:
74minutes of Festival. 24 tracks including the outro by a BBC announcer.
The tracks are named FestivalDesert_BBCTr01.shn, etc.
1. Intro. Fishing the Niger River.
2. Some rocking Tuareg guitar music, live at the festival. Tidawt from Niger.
3. Andy complaining about the sand. Talking to a Tuareg man. Learning Tuareg life.
4. More music. Tartit.
5. Talking to one of the organizers of the festival, Andy Morgan, about the festival and its purpose.
6. More music. Not sure, but I think it's Ha?ra Arby . This is the woman who is recorded in track 25 of this disc.
7. Description of the scene: stage, audience, camels, etc. Recollecting recording Ha?ra Arby in a hotel in Timbuktu years earlier (that's track 25 of this disc). She sings a little bit. They talk about music, economy, religion, etc.
8. More music.
9. Surrealism in the desert. Robert Plant appears, they talk. Robert Plant recollects.
10. Robert Plant with Lo'Jo, "Whole Lotta Love"
11. Pete Adams from Bristol, England. Talking.
12. Music.
13. Sitting in the shade with members of Tinariwen and talking about so-called desert blues.
14. Tinariwen on stage. Damn I love this disc. I want to go!
15. Ali Farka Toure music. Guitar, voice, simple percussion.
16. Talking with Ali Farka Toure.
17. Ali Farka Toure.
18. Talking with Ali Farka Toure some more.
19. Music. Ali Farka Toure on stage with band, fully electrified.
20. Sitting around a bonfire with Robert Plant and Ali Farka Toure, doing some blues.
21. Toure and Plant jam a little, sort of "Whole Lotta Love".
22. Sitting around and talking with Robert Plant some more.
23. Ali Farka Toure plays some more. Robert Plant joins in. END OF PROGRAM
24. BBC announcer outro.
25. wkershawny2-a (see below)
I don't think this was recorded from FM. I think it was recorded from streaming audio on the net. I'm not positive about this, but the sound has some very typical RA artifacts. Listen to the river sounds in the first track. Also, the first few seconds of fishing are missing from the first track. You can hear them in the RA file. I've included the RA file in the extras folder because I felt like it (wandydesert.rm). But I didn't convert it and re-do the wavs from it. It was downloaded with StreamboxVCR, not streamed. I don't know how the wavs or shns of the original vine were created.
wkershawny2.rm
This is another file that was downloaded from the BBC site with StreamboxVCR and converted with Streambox Ripper. I broke it into two pieces, and put the first one as track 25 on DISC ONE
(FestivalDesert_wkershawny2-aTr25.shn):
This is the hotel recording session Andy refers to during the Festival in the Desert.
This was recorded in Dec. 1988, in Bamako and Timbuktu (by way of Niafunke, where they pick up Ali Farka Toure). Andy writes: 'As we were sitting in the hotel foyer a Moslem woman arrived, covered from head to foot. Ali started to pick out a little riff on his guitar, and this woman started to sing. This voice came out from behind her veil - it was so beautiful. The person on percussion is me bashing a BBC equipment case' (6:00)
DISC TWO:
Afropop Worldwide (From Public Radio International)
Broadcast April 18, 2003
Recorded from WBEZ Chicago, via unknown equipment, to PC using Total Recorder (from High Criteria software)
Unknown PC>CD.
CD>PC with EAC (See log file)
Edited with Cool Edit Pro.
Tracked with CDWAVE.
Shn'd with MKWACT.
http://www.afropop.org/
Here's the blurb from the Afropop website:
"Join us as we trek to the Timbuktu region in northern Mali to a magical festival where 2,000 Tuaregs have come to hang out together, race their camels, play sand hockey and enjoy concerts by Tuareg musicians from Mali, Mauritania and Niger. We visit artists in their tents for unplugged, acoustic sessions by Haira Arby, Bocar Madjo, Lobi Traore and others. Plus highlights from Festival concerts. And visits with Festival participants including Robert Plant who used to fly around the world on a private 747 with Led Zepellin. This time, he bumped across the desert in a 4x4 like the rest of us!"
See also (these are included in the extra stuff folder on disc two, too)
http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/193 (full write-up of the fest by Sean Barlow, with tons of photos by him and Banning Eyre).
and
http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/38 (Robert Plant interview)
1 Intro: Getting there, festival background, etc.
2 Music and more intro
3 Tinariwen on stage
4 Tartit--a little music and some interview
5 Tartit on stage
6 Tidawt on stage
7 talk
8 Ha?ra Arby interview (short)
9 Ha?ra Arby on stage
10 Talk
11 Bocar Madjo in tent session
12 Talk (with a little Oumou Sangare)
13 Oumou Sangare on stage
14 Afel Bocoum on stage
15 Talk
16 Lo'Jo on stage
17 Ludovico Einaudi & Ballak? Sissoko
18 Marcus James +3 (read more at http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/64
19 talk
20 Robert Plant with Lo'Jo (Whole Lotta Love--incomplete)
21 Interview with Robert Plant (most--all?--of the interview is transcribed in one of the html files include in the shn discs) "You know, I don't care about countries. I don't care about nationalities. I just like that heavenly moment where I learn something."
22 Robert Plant on stage
23 Aicha Bint Chigualy
24 Talk, including sand hockey,
25 Lobi Traore in tent session--solo acoustic
26 Ali Farka Toure on stage
27 Talk, outro, some music
The first disc was received as a vine, originally billed as Robert Plant and the Tuaregs, but Robert Plant plays a relatively small role in things. Two songs of the BBC show. Very cool, though.
The majority of the music on here is the electric guitar-based, bluesy, trance-inducing sort of music most commonly associated (here in the US, anyway) with Ali Farka Toure. It's incredible stuff. Tons of soul, complexity, emotion, interesting sounds. And picturing it happening on a stage in the desert...
Here's what the BBC site has to say about this show:
"Timbuktu's 'Festival In The Desert' and a 'Mali travelog' are two wonderful new additions to Andy Kershaw's archive of on-location features. Broadcast in Jan 2003, the 1st programme saw him take a trip to one of the world's oldest music festivals. There is a selection of music from eminent artists such as Ali Farka Tour?, Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Tartit and Afel Bocum. The festival itself is held in a nearby oasis in the southern Sahara Desert, and is the traditional gathering of the Touareg people, who sing powerfully hypnotic songs about the pain and pleasures of desert life."
(the "mali travelogue" program referred to is included in the extras folder as the RealAudio file wandymali.rm)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/desert.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/andykershaw.shtml is Andy's main page.
There is a ton of info in the html files included in the extra stuff folder.
programma.html has the schedule.
bios.htm has the...bios.
The two Afropop dispatches are rundowns of the whole festival. Excellent. (There was no dispatch 1 on their site.)
Also tons of pictures, including lots of Robert Plant, who looks more and more like JRR Tolkein.
DISC ONE:
74minutes of Festival. 24 tracks including the outro by a BBC announcer.
The tracks are named FestivalDesert_BBCTr01.shn, etc.
1. Intro. Fishing the Niger River.
2. Some rocking Tuareg guitar music, live at the festival. Tidawt from Niger.
3. Andy complaining about the sand. Talking to a Tuareg man. Learning Tuareg life.
4. More music. Tartit.
5. Talking to one of the organizers of the festival, Andy Morgan, about the festival and its purpose.
6. More music. Not sure, but I think it's Ha?ra Arby . This is the woman who is recorded in track 25 of this disc.
7. Description of the scene: stage, audience, camels, etc. Recollecting recording Ha?ra Arby in a hotel in Timbuktu years earlier (that's track 25 of this disc). She sings a little bit. They talk about music, economy, religion, etc.
8. More music.
9. Surrealism in the desert. Robert Plant appears, they talk. Robert Plant recollects.
10. Robert Plant with Lo'Jo, "Whole Lotta Love"
11. Pete Adams from Bristol, England. Talking.
12. Music.
13. Sitting in the shade with members of Tinariwen and talking about so-called desert blues.
14. Tinariwen on stage. Damn I love this disc. I want to go!
15. Ali Farka Toure music. Guitar, voice, simple percussion.
16. Talking with Ali Farka Toure.
17. Ali Farka Toure.
18. Talking with Ali Farka Toure some more.
19. Music. Ali Farka Toure on stage with band, fully electrified.
20. Sitting around a bonfire with Robert Plant and Ali Farka Toure, doing some blues.
21. Toure and Plant jam a little, sort of "Whole Lotta Love".
22. Sitting around and talking with Robert Plant some more.
23. Ali Farka Toure plays some more. Robert Plant joins in. END OF PROGRAM
24. BBC announcer outro.
25. wkershawny2-a (see below)
I don't think this was recorded from FM. I think it was recorded from streaming audio on the net. I'm not positive about this, but the sound has some very typical RA artifacts. Listen to the river sounds in the first track. Also, the first few seconds of fishing are missing from the first track. You can hear them in the RA file. I've included the RA file in the extras folder because I felt like it (wandydesert.rm). But I didn't convert it and re-do the wavs from it. It was downloaded with StreamboxVCR, not streamed. I don't know how the wavs or shns of the original vine were created.
wkershawny2.rm
This is another file that was downloaded from the BBC site with StreamboxVCR and converted with Streambox Ripper. I broke it into two pieces, and put the first one as track 25 on DISC ONE
(FestivalDesert_wkershawny2-aTr25.shn):
This is the hotel recording session Andy refers to during the Festival in the Desert.
This was recorded in Dec. 1988, in Bamako and Timbuktu (by way of Niafunke, where they pick up Ali Farka Toure). Andy writes: 'As we were sitting in the hotel foyer a Moslem woman arrived, covered from head to foot. Ali started to pick out a little riff on his guitar, and this woman started to sing. This voice came out from behind her veil - it was so beautiful. The person on percussion is me bashing a BBC equipment case' (6:00)
DISC TWO:
Afropop Worldwide (From Public Radio International)
Broadcast April 18, 2003
Recorded from WBEZ Chicago, via unknown equipment, to PC using Total Recorder (from High Criteria software)
Unknown PC>CD.
CD>PC with EAC (See log file)
Edited with Cool Edit Pro.
Tracked with CDWAVE.
Shn'd with MKWACT.
http://www.afropop.org/
Here's the blurb from the Afropop website:
"Join us as we trek to the Timbuktu region in northern Mali to a magical festival where 2,000 Tuaregs have come to hang out together, race their camels, play sand hockey and enjoy concerts by Tuareg musicians from Mali, Mauritania and Niger. We visit artists in their tents for unplugged, acoustic sessions by Haira Arby, Bocar Madjo, Lobi Traore and others. Plus highlights from Festival concerts. And visits with Festival participants including Robert Plant who used to fly around the world on a private 747 with Led Zepellin. This time, he bumped across the desert in a 4x4 like the rest of us!"
See also (these are included in the extra stuff folder on disc two, too)
http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/193 (full write-up of the fest by Sean Barlow, with tons of photos by him and Banning Eyre).
and
http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/38 (Robert Plant interview)
1 Intro: Getting there, festival background, etc.
2 Music and more intro
3 Tinariwen on stage
4 Tartit--a little music and some interview
5 Tartit on stage
6 Tidawt on stage
7 talk
8 Ha?ra Arby interview (short)
9 Ha?ra Arby on stage
10 Talk
11 Bocar Madjo in tent session
12 Talk (with a little Oumou Sangare)
13 Oumou Sangare on stage
14 Afel Bocoum on stage
15 Talk
16 Lo'Jo on stage
17 Ludovico Einaudi & Ballak? Sissoko
18 Marcus James +3 (read more at http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/64
19 talk
20 Robert Plant with Lo'Jo (Whole Lotta Love--incomplete)
21 Interview with Robert Plant (most--all?--of the interview is transcribed in one of the html files include in the shn discs) "You know, I don't care about countries. I don't care about nationalities. I just like that heavenly moment where I learn something."
22 Robert Plant on stage
23 Aicha Bint Chigualy
24 Talk, including sand hockey,
25 Lobi Traore in tent session--solo acoustic
26 Ali Farka Toure on stage
27 Talk, outro, some music
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