A music panel marked by originality, authenticity and spirituality, a journey through some ancestral African music, was proposed in Wednesday evening by the International Festival of Arts of the Ahaggar (Fiataa) to the public of Tamanrasset to welcome the new year 2015.
Organized by the International Festival Abalessa- Tin Hinan, Arts of the Ahaggar (Fiataa), the last evening of 2014 saw the performance on stage at the camp of Tidessi (15 km from Tamanrasset), the Dean of tindé Badi Lalla, very popular in the region, who offered to the large public, some poems of this mystical ceremonial music dressed in a contemporary melody close to the Assouf.
In a different musical genre, Franco-Ethiopian band "Selamnesh Zemene and Badume's Band" bringing on stage the result of a meeting between French musicians of the jazz and the soul music and the Ethiopian singer of the 1970s, Selamnesh Zemene.
The tortured voice of the singer, the authenticity and mysticism generated by her vocal timbre accompanied by afrobeat, blues and jazz melodies have transported the audience from Tamanrasset to the discovery of a new musical experience.
In the second part of the evening, the griot (custodian of the collective memory) and Malian musician Bassekou Koyaté and his troupe "Ngoni Ba" presented to the public of the Fiataa, which number hit 5,000 spectators despite the cold, a contemporary music orchestra, which can shift from Assouf to the rock and also the "Bambara" directory composed exclusively by the traditional African instruments.
Inaugurated on Tuesday, the 5th Fiataa continues until January 4th in Tamanrasset, Abalessa and In Salah with the program a tribute to the late Othman Bali and shows of groups like Toumast (Niger), Sahel Khoumaissa (Mauritania) and Tidalit (Mali).