Imarhan

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When
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022
8 p.m.
Cost: $16
Where
3939 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

In early 2019 the members of Imarhan began laying the groundwork for their third album. The Tuareg quintet was building a professional recording studio, the first ever in their home city of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria, from the ground up. By March of 2020, the studio was filled with high-end audio gear otherwise inaccessible to the vast majority of musicians in much of the Saharan region. The group christened it Aboogi, named for the first semi-permanent structures their nomadic forebears built when establishing settlements and villages, and began tracking the first album they could record on their native soil. It seemed only natural to call the resulting collection of songs Aboogi a nod to the new collective space they had established and the resilience of their culture and communities.