Ghadara (A Gentle Betrayal) - Tiris

Listen to the debut recording of Tiris-SANDTRACKS!! Produced by Kad Achouri and Mohamed Hafsi and Sandblast. Recorded in Algiers and Paris. The album was released in September 2007.
Named after a deeply culturally symbolic region of Western Sahara , this music and dance group is made up of 8 Saharawi refugee artists and musical director Momo Hafsi. All based in large camps in SW Algeria, they have been forced to live there for over 3 decades since Morocco invaded and illegally annexed their homeland in 1975.

Read more about Tiris on Last.fm.


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