Mabruk (album)

Mabruk
Studio album by Aziza Brahim
Released 11 June 2012
Genre Blues, Folk, Rock, World
Length 60:56
Label Reaktion
Producer Aziza Brahim
Aziza Brahim chronology

O.S.T. Wilaya
(2011)		 Mabruk
(2012)
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Mondomix [1]
Les Inrockuptibles [2]
Global Sounds [3]
Songlines [4]

Mabruk is the first LP of Sahrawi singer Aziza Brahim, after her 2008 EP Mi Canto. The album is accompanied by a 16-page booklet which includes French translation of the songs, and a text by Sahrawi writer Bahia Mahmud Awah on the history of their people.[5] It was elected as 2012 World Music Album of the Year by the Dutch magazine Heaven.[6]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Marhabna"   03:21
2. "Ard El Salam"   05:18
3. "Wilaya Blues"   05:03
4. "Hamid Rabi"   04:24
5. "Invasores"   04:56
6. "Laaiún Ezeina"   05:07
7. "Mohamed Yislim"   05:25
8. "Liberación de Guelta"   04:04
9. "Ya Mulana"   05:24
10. "Sensación Del Tanque"   04:15
11. "La Tierra Derrama Lágrimas"   04:54
12. "Regreso"   03:39
13. "Machair"   02:58

Bonus tracks

References

  1. ↑ Benjamin Minimum (2012-05-23). "Aziza Brahim "Mabruk"". Mondomix. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  2. ↑ Stéphane Deschamps (2012-06-21). "Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo - Mabruk. Une tempête soul et brûlante venue du Sahara: critique et écoute." (in French). lesinrocks.com. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  3. ↑ "Aziza Brahim - Mabruk" (in German). GlobalSounds.info. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo - Mabruk. Saharan struggle, from a female perspective". 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
  5. ↑ Aziza Brahim :: Mabruk Groovalizacion.com
  6. ↑ Kees Van Wee (2012-12-08). "Aziza Brahim, indrukwekkende woestijnvrouw" (in Dutch). Heaven magazine. Retrieved 2012-12-09.

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