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Tallawit Timbouctou - Hali Diallo - LP

Tallawit Timbouctou - Hali Diallo - LP

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Tallawit Timbouctou are champions of takamba, a hypnotic traditional music from Northern Mali. Built around the tehardent, the four-stringed lute and pre-cursor to the American banjo, takamba’s droning distortion comes from signature handmade mics and blown out amplifiers. Accompanied by percussion pounded out onto an overturned calabash with mind boggling time signatures, the combined effect is trance inducing.

This is the music that long ruled the North of Mali, performed at festivities, blasting out of dusty boomboxes, and beaming o …

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