{"id":51474,"date":"2020-05-26T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/music-sahara-whatsapp-amaria-hamadalher\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:39:59","slug":"music-sahara-whatsapp-amaria-hamadalher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/music-sahara-whatsapp-amaria-hamadalher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel Sounds invites Amaria Hamadahler on their ephemeral EP series via WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For the year of 2020, Sahel Sounds presents &#8220;Music from Saharan WhatsApp.&#8221; Every month, the label release an EP from a musical group in the Sahel recorded on a cellphone, transmitted over WhatsApp, and uploaded to Bandcamp, where it will live for one month only.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s accompanied by her guitar and her radiant voice that the Nigerien Amara Hamadahler recorded this 5<sup>th<\/sup> EP of the \u201cMusic from the Saharan WhatsApp\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member of the Les Filles de de Illighadad collective since 2018, Amariam Hamadalher comes from Goufat, a small village outside of Agadez, Niger, a city renowned as the center of modern Tuareg guitar. Playing guitar for over 15 years, Amariam has the distinction of being the first and only woman guitarist in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2729544195\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amariahamadalher.bandcamp.com\/album\/music-from-saharan-whatsapp-05\">Music from Saharan WhatsApp 05 by Amaria Hamadalher<\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">After the Nigeriens Etran de l\u2019Air, the Malian group Alkibar Junior and the Malian singer Oumou Diabat\u00e9 accompanied by Kara Show Koumba Frifri, it is now up to Amaria Hamadahler from the Goufat village in Niger to get in front of her phone and record these 4 tracks from a grandiloquent project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">The EP is now available on Bandcamp <a href=\"https:\/\/amariahamadalher.bandcamp.com\/album\/music-from-saharan-whatsapp-05\">here<\/a>. 100% of the sales will go directly to the artist or group. 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