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Hailing from the Saharan nation of Niger, where he was raised in the nomadic tradition of the Tuareg, singer and guitarist Omara "Bombino" Moctar performs music that echoes his tribe's history of defiant self-reliance. As a young man Bombino was drawn to the rock-tinged Tuareg guitar music that was outlawed by Nigerian authorities following Tuareg rebellions; when the government began targeting guitar players in 2007, Bombino fled the country. Unlike his peers, many of whom prefer a heavier approach, Bombino's blues-tinged, Jimi Hendrix-referencing songs are economical compositions that use a clean electric guitar sound. It's transporting work that harnesses hypnotic repetitions of musical phrases to produce rebel music that's rousing and inspiring.
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