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"Akal" is the second album of the Amazigh band Tarwa N-Tiniri. The title means "Land" in the Tamazight language and is used to express belonging to free land and to travel with music to different lands to spread culture and introduce the Moroccan Amazigh cultural heritage. Through the rhythms of the songs, you travel between various musical halls.
The album was recorded in January 2023 at the band's house in a small village called Hassi Labied, in the desert of Merzouga, Morocco. Produced by Atty Records from Canada by Simon and Greg, the album includes guest appearances by Thijs Borsten from the Netherlands, Elin Kåven from Norway, Simon Walls from Canada, Nukad, Marhum Hamid, and Bader Mezouz from Morocco.
Their new album, Akal, their second, deftly navigates their experiences and fashions them into a fully persuasive and poetic musical document. The album is full of musical experimentation, cultural celebration, the suffering, and the kick of desert blues music.
The opening track, "Aghbalu" (the lake), is a call for a wish to go to the heaving lake and is a traditional poem that Amazigh people sing in weddings. Women sing it while making carpets or cooking and cleaning, and it is very famous in every traditional Amazigh celebration in Morocco.
And on an album where the title translates as "Land," it makes perfect sense that this time we hear the haunting voice of female vocalist Nukad with lead vocalist Hamid Ait Ahmed in the song "Tenere," to show the excitement of the Amazigh woman in the free land. In the song "Adu," you hear the yoik from the voice of the Sámi women
Elin Kåven.
The album was released on April 5, 2024.

Tarwa N-Tiniri, which means: sons of the desert. Are from the same neighbourhood in Ouarzazate,
the city at the edge of the desert, also well known as Africa’s Hollywood.
They always have the
Amazigh heritage and culture in the centre of their lives since they are part of nomadic families.
They cherish the music traditions, tea sessions and making food.

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