Explore the meaning of the term: Bombino Bianco, the tuareg that like the hipster: "But don't call me folk" Bombino Bianco, the tuareg that like the hipster: "But don't call me folk"

Goumar Almoctar artist niger produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. The success by escape from war to Notte della Taranta of Melpignano


"Hand in tuareg, and true. But i hate to call it world music, or folk. I am rock-blues. OR is a kind patented, reserved to the Americans." news This is the one issue on which the guitarist and singer Bombino, name d'art of Goumar Almoctar, warms up. Of all the rest speaks calmly: the wars of his country, Niger, "from which, child, escaped twice, but not i would live there (never in Europe"; the family - "i never said no to my father, and my son will do the same" - and the rapid success, arrived with the wing of Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys (already producer-demiurge of Wool del Rey), which in 2013 wished to produce her second album, "Nomad", after you have heard a song on YouTube. This is a directly news.

Now Bombino Bianco, the Jimi Hendrix of the desert, class 1980, Berber Tuareg of Agadez in the extreme south of the Sahara, has been playing with musicians such as Robert Plant and at international festivals like Coachella. And yesterday, and in turn to eight concerts in Italy, where (in spite of its') folk will be more than a few grant: on 19 August and in Caulonia (Reggio Calabria) to Kaulonia Tarantella Festival; 20 to Dum Dum Republic Festival of Paestum (Salerno); 21 to Umbria Folk Festival of Orvieto; finally, the 23a Melpignano (Lecce) in closing Notte della Taranta. Here, as if on cue, the festival will sing only traditional tunes from Puglia, mix in some cases with stanzas in tuareg language, tamasheq.