Mabruk (album)

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]

Mabruk
Studio album by
Released11 June 2012
GenreSahrawi music, Folk, World
Length60:56
LabelReaktion
ProducerAziza Brahim
Aziza Brahim chronology
O.S.T. Wilaya
(2011)
Mabruk
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Mondomix[1]
Les Inrockuptibles[2]
Global Sounds[3]
Songlines[4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Marhabna"3:21
2."Ard El Salam"5:18
3."Wilaya Blues"5:03
4."Hamid Rabi"4:24
5."Invasores"4:56
6."Laaiún Ezeina"5:07
7."Mohamed Yislim"5:25
8."Liberación de Guelta"4:04
9."Ya Mulana"5:24
10."Sensación Del Tanque"4:15
11."La Tierra Derrama Lágrimas"4:54
12."Regreso"3:39
13."Machair"2:58
International release bonus track
No.TitleLength
14."Lamentos"2:08
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gollark: They're an obvious system. I think you overestimate their stability though.
gollark: That's not very opposite.
gollark: As supreme eternal dictator, I would totally do this. As such, I am to be.
gollark: Where would they escape to? There are no good countries, with me as supreme eternal dictator.

References

  1. Benjamin Minimum (23 May 2012). "Aziza Brahim "Mabruk"". Mondomix. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  2. Stéphane Deschamps (21 June 2012). "Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo – Mabruk. Une tempête soul et brûlante venue du Sahara: critique et écoute". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  3. "Aziza Brahim – Mabruk" (in German). GlobalSounds.info. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  4. "Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo – Mabruk. Saharan struggle, from a female perspective". 4 September 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  5. Aziza Brahim :: Mabruk Groovalizacion.com
  6. Kees Van Wee (8 December 2012). "Aziza Brahim, indrukwekkende woestijnvrouw". Heaven magazine (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 December 2012.
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