{"id":40659,"date":"2020-04-24T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/live-isolation-when-tamikrest-offers-an-extract-from-his-album-tamotait\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T09:22:45","slug":"live-tamikrest-azawad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/live-tamikrest-azawad\/","title":{"rendered":"Live isolation: when Tamikrest offers an extract from his album Tamota\u00eft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpanafricanmusic%2Fvideos%2F269051877607087%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>On PAM&#8217;s Facebook page, Tamikrest&#8217;s singer performs the song &#8220;Azawad&#8221;, taken from <em>Tamota\u00eft<\/em>, the group&#8217;s new album.<\/h4>\n<p>Three years after the release of <em>Kidal<\/em>, the Tuaregs of the group Tamikrest have just released <em>Tamota\u00eft<\/em>. A fifth studio album of great virtuosity that plunges us into a daily life shaped by struggles against injustices linked to the complex and desperate political situation of the Saharan lands where the group comes from. But this album also contains a dream of the future. &#8220;The definition of the album is there, in its title,&#8221; says singer, guitarist and songwriter Ousmane Ag Mossa. &#8220;Tamotait means hope for positive change. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>For PAM, Ousmane Ag Mossa, the leader of the group accompanied by Moussa, interprets &#8220;Azawad&#8221;, a word that has come to designate a region, but which first literally means &#8220;grazing area&#8221;. The song evokes the desire of a people to reconnect with their land. By email, Ousmane explains: &#8220;We&#8217;re confined to the town centre of Tamanrasset, in the south of Algeria, known as the &#8216;capital&#8217; of the Tuareg population. Because of the Covid-19 crisis, it was impossible to shoot the video with the whole Tamikrest group because we all live in different parts of the world. Therefore, Moussa, a former member-guitarist, took the guitar to play with me.\u00a0 We hope you will like the song and our new album. In the meantime, stay safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Tamota\u00eft<\/em> is available on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/tamotait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD and LP<\/a>\u00a0and in <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Tamotait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital<\/a> since March 27th via Glitterbeat Records.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40542\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image.jpg 1702w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-759x458.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-1010x610.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-1440x870.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-661x399.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-465x281.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-375x226.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c72de935-webp.net-compress-image-190x116.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On PAM&#8217;s Facebook page, Tamikrest&#8217;s singer performs the song &#8220;Azawad&#8221;, taken from Tamota\u00eft, the group&#8217;s new album. Three years after the release of Kidal, the Tuaregs of the group Tamikrest have just released Tamota\u00eft. 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