Invisible System - Ambiences in Mali '2020

Tracks list

Atmospheres and soundscapes. Sounds to sleep, relax and space-out to. 
These recordings stem from Dans field trips working around the Sahara desert
from 1999-2003 armed with a minidisc recorder and a PZM microphone powered by a
9v battery.
The trips were taken around Dogon Country and Timbuktu working in villages in
isolation promoting environmental protection and conservation with the NGO
Walia. Recordings were made whilst sleeping under mosquito nets outside in the
villages and whilst walking around talking and socialising with Malians.
At times including some sounds from backpacking around Ghana in 2001. A
sprinkling of sound from Addis Ababa around 2004 whilst living in Ethiopia (city
based so more music and less soundscape recordings were made there). 
And further recorded during two of his return visits to Mali based in Bamako and
the quiet suburb of Samé where his wife was raised on the outskirts.
The later made on a portable Tascam recorder from outside the studio Dan built
in a rented house in the trees during the sessions that turned into the albums
Bamako Sessions released on Riverboat Records and Dance To The Full Moon
released on Arc Music. You can hear the waterfall and stream in the distance.
A sprinkling of music is woven in on one track initially from a Roland D50 synth
piano part by Dan recorded in Brighton in 1998 before he moved to Mali
(transported on minidisc); and a saxophone improvisation on another track
recorded in Bamako, Mali in the NGO International Service’s bathroom on a
laptop in 2000, by Mark from Senegal who Dan had met in the city.
Some tacks offer Malians playing traditional instrumentation in the villages.
And Toureg women singing, clapping and playing the imzhad (traditional violin)
during a camel trek over 2 days and 2 nights that Dan made from Timbuktu. 
Also Dan’s Toureg friends singing in their mud house in a village close
to the small town Dan lived in for 4 years Sévaré, close to Mopti on the
route to Timbuktu. 
A town that subsequently has become very dangerous due to the infiltration of
ISIS to the point of the hotel/restaurant where Dan socialised by night directly
behind his home being on the BBC news after people were shot and killed there by
Islamist militants in 2015. Far away from the peace and calm he knew living
there from 1999-2003.
Close your eyes, space out or clean the house and travel. 

Harper Diabate Records

Tracklisting:
01. Invisible System - Thair? (13:33)
02. Invisible System - Sirius D (10:20)
03. Invisible System - Les Tuaregs (29:42)
04. Invisible System - Timbuktu (32:09)
05. Invisible System - La Route De Mopti (22:48)
06. Invisible System - Banko En Brusse (28:08)
07. Invisible System - Nommos (16:30)
08. Invisible System - Samé Bamako (21:52)
09. Invisible System - Bambara (16:46)
10. Invisible System - La Forêt (30:29)
11. Invisible System - Les Dogons (16:09)

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