M'berra, by Khalab & M'berra Ensemble

M'berra

by Khalab & M'berra Ensemble

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Tim Heiler Tim Heiler Tim Heiler Desert Vibes. A fine record at the edge between worlds. Favorite track: Moulan Shakur.

GizusChrist I am so grateful that I stumbled upon this record. These are sounds and energies I did not know I needed to hear and feel. Thank you to the artists and to all who made this music accessible. Favorite track: Skit Guit.

B(l)and I love this. Can someone say where the money goes? 100% to the artists I hope.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Digifile package with 32-page booklet — an extraordinary visual accompaniment showing photographs of the musicians at the M’berra camp alongside written accounts of the project told from a number of perspectives.

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M'berra - Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Deluxe 12" coloured vinyl with gatefold package and 32-page booklet — an extraordinary visual accompaniment showing photographs of the musicians at the M’berra camp alongside written accounts of the project told from a number of perspectives.

Includes unlimited streaming of M'berra via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Desert Storm 02:23	buy track
2.	The Western Guys 03:52	buy track
3.	Curfew 05:30	buy track
4.	The Griot Speaks 01:12	buy track
5.	We Are M'berra 03:51 video
6.	Skit In My Heart 01:03	buy track
7.	Reste A L'Ombre 03:44	buy track
8.	Desert Storm Pt.2 03:15	buy track
9.	Moulan Shakur 04:05	buy track
10.	Docu-fiction 01:44	buy track
11.	Dancing In A Desert Moon 03:58	buy track
12.	Skit Guit 02:48	buy track

about

M’berra is the sound, the story, of a collective of Malian musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in southeast Mauritania and Italian producer and electro-shaman Khalab. In a sprawling tent city rising out of the desert, out of nothingness, at the border with Mali in West Africa, brought together by spirit and circumstance, the group’s Arab and Tuareg members find solace and beauty in music and song.

credits

released April 23, 2021

M'berra Ensemble are:

Amano Ag Issa, Mohamed Issa Ag Oumar, Ahmadou Ag Mohamed, Tinalbaraka Walet Alhassane, Alhassane Ag Abdorahmane, Taya Walet Mohamed, Aliou Ould Mohamed, Attaher Ag Mohamed, Attaye Ag Mohamed, Elhaj Ag Mohamed, Enaderfé Ag Khamma, Hamma Ag Awaissoune, Mohamed Alwafi Ag Mohamed, Khantara Ould Mohamed, Adriano Viterbini, Tommaso Cappellato, Davide Paulis, and DJ Knuf.

Thanks to: INTERSOS, UNHCR, my wife Eva and my sons Nicolas and Luce, Giovanni Visone & the INTERSOS team, Abdallah Ag Amano, Barbara Fiore, Zakaria Yahaya, Fadimata Walet Oumar, Enzo Abbate, Megan Iacobini de Fazio, Irene Tiberi, Denis Longhi, Danio Durante, Sergio Marchionni and the Real World Records family.

This project was made possible through the support of INTERSOS. INTERSOS is an Italian humanitarian aid organisation that works all over the world to bring assistance to people in danger, victims of natural disasters, armed conflicts or living in conditions of extreme exclusion.

All tracks written by Khalab & M’berra Ensemble
Recorded in the Mauritanian desert in May 2017
Produced & arranged by Khalab
Mastered by BitBazar
Mixed by DJ Knuf & Khalab at Studio 33, Rome between September 2019 & September 2020
Photos by Jean-Marc Caimi
Graphic project by Mine Studio
Graphic 3d work by Aira
Published by Real World Works Ltd