Kel Assouf
Kel Assouf | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Niger, Belgium |
Genres | Rock, blues, blues-rock, tishoumaren, berber music |
Years active | 2006 | –present
Labels | Igloo, Glitterbeat |
Members | Anana Harouna Olivier Penu Alan Van Rompuy Guillaume Palomba |
Past members | Aboubacar Harouna Abdelwahab Hakem Mama Wallet Amoumine Olivier Crespel Youba Dia Esinam Dogbaste |
Website | www |
Kel Assouf is a Tuareg musical group making "Tuareg rock" with electronic influences. The band's singer, songwriter, and guitarist is Anana Harouna. Kel Assouf, in Tamasheq, means "nostalgia" and "son of eternity".[1]
Career
Anana Harouna was born in Niger and lived in Libya during the Tuareg rebellion of the early 1990s, like the band members of Tinariwen, with whom he has performed. He formed Kel Assouf while arriving in Brussels in 2006.[1] Oliver Penu, who plays drums on the third album, Black Tenere (2019), is Belgian,[2] and Sofyann Ben Youssef is a Tunisian who produced the albums Tikounen (2016) and Black Tenere; he also plays keyboards to add bass lines, and occasionally plays frame drum in live performances.[1]
Their third album, Black Tenere, released in 2019 employs drum lines from the Roland TR-808 and heavy guitar riffs.[3] Robin Denselow, writing in The Guardian, gave Black Tenere four out of five stars, describing the music as "how the music of the Sahara sounds once it has migrated to Europe and fused with other influences".[1]
Discography
- 2010: Tin Hinane (Igloo Records)
- 2016: Tikounen (Igloo Records/SOWAREX)
- 2019: Black Tenere (Glitterbeat Records)
References
- ^ a b c d Denselow, Robin (9 May 2016). "Kel Assouf review – Saharan blues in a leather jacket and jeans". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ Schnee, Guillaume (4 February 2019). "Exclu FIP : "Fransa" le rock sous tension de Kel Assouf" (in French). Radio France. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ Honigmann, David (8 February 2019). "Kel Assouf: Black Tenere — an electronic take on the Tuareg 'guitar' sound". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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- Nigerien rock music groups
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- Belgian blues musical groups
- Blues rock groups
- Berber music
- Desert blues musicians
- Musical groups established in 2006
- 2006 establishments in Belgium