Bombino

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Bombino (2012)

Bombino (actually Goumar Almoctar or Omara Moctar , born January 1, 1980 in Tidène , today Tchirozérine , Niger ) is a Nigerian guitarist and singer who mixes the traditional music of the Tuareg with elements of rock and blues .

Life and musical development

Bombino was born in the Tidène valley , northeast of the city of Agadez, the son of a car mechanic and a housewife . He is a nephew of the painter Rissa Ixa . He grew up in the area of ​​Agadez and was raised Muslim . When the Tuareg rebellion broke out in the early 1990s , the family fled to live with relatives in Tamanrasset, Algeria, and returned in 1993 after democratic elections had taken place in Niger. There he received a guitar from his uncle, took lessons and played in a band against his father's wishes. His fellow musicians gave him the nickname Bombino, which is derived from the Italian Bambino (German little boy), as he was the youngest member of the band.

Bombino in New York City (2016)

In 2004, Bombino released his first album, Agamgam . As a member of the band Tidawt , he played concerts in California in 2007 . In addition to recording, the group had a song for the CD Stones World of Tim Ries with it and played with several members of the Rolling Stones together. A concert that he in the same year in Agadez with other musicians as Group Bombino played was by Hisham Mayet , an employee of the record company Sublime Frequencies from Seattle added, and in 2009 with another record in the United States published.

When the Tuareg riots in Niger again in 2007, Bombino initially fought on the side of the rebels, but then went into exile in Burkina Faso . There he met the filmmaker Ron Wyman in 2009 , who made the documentary Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion about Bombino and enabled him to record his second album Agadez in the United States.

The album Agadez was released in 2011 on the US label Cumbancha and received worldwide attention. The program Mikado of the German radio station hr2-kultur presented it as album of the week in May 2011. The third album Nomad was produced in 2013 in Nashville by Dan Auerbach , the guitarist of the blues-rock duo The Black Keys . The music magazine Rolling Stone named it one of the "50 Best Albums of 2013". The recordings for the fifth studio album Azel , produced by Dirty Projectors guitarist Dave Longstreth , were made in the Applehead Recording Studios in Woodstock (New York) in autumn 2015 . In addition to a few quiet acoustic pieces, the album contains a little dub - reggae rhythms and a lot of polyrhythmic fusion and fast guitar rock. The Bombino Band played six sets at the 2016 South by Southwest Music Festival . The CD release tour takes Bombino and band through numerous US states and to Vancouver, Canada. On August 9, 2017, Bombino performed in Winterthur (Switzerland) as part of the 42nd Winterthur Music Festival . Bombino recorded his 2018 album Deran again on the African continent, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Musical influences

His musical influences include Ali Farka Touré , Abdallah ag Oumbadougou and Jimi Hendrix .

Discography

  • 2004: Agamgam
  • 2009: Guitars from Agadez, Vol. 2 (as Group Bombino , Sublime Frequencies)
  • 2011: Agadez (Cumbancha)
  • 2013: Nomad ( Nonesuch Records )
  • 2016: Azel (Partisan Records)
  • 2018: Deran

Web links

Commons : Bombino  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Audio samples

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bombino: Agadez on the website of the Hessischer Rundfunk
  2. ^ A b Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion on the Zero Gravity Films website
  3. ↑ Ruddy Aboab: Bombino: le son du désert dans Plus Près De Toi. In: Nova. May 17, 2018, accessed October 19, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ Bill Meredith: Tim Ries: Stones World . Reviewed in Jazz Times magazine , December 2008
  5. ↑ Michael Ardaiolo: Group Bombino: Guitars From Agadez, Vol. 2 . Review on dustedmagazine.com
  6. ↑ Bombino Making "Tuareggae" with Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth , Rolling Stone, January 19, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016
  7. ↑ 'Azel' by Bombino Review , review on wsj.com from March 22, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 (English)
  8. ↑ A sound that the Tuareg also like , review on Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 31, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016
  9. ↑ Timothey Monger: Deran - Bombino. In: Allmusic. Retrieved April 15, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ Tom Pryor: The Nat Geo Music Interview: Bombino  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com   . National Geographic , June 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bombino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Almoctar, Goumar; Moctar, Oumara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien guitarist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Tidène , Tchirozérine , Niger