Omara Moctar, who plays the Barby on Tuesday, is compared to the great blues guitarist John Lee Hooker and to African artists like the Tinariwen band and Ali Farka Toure.
“Bombino” is the nickname of Omara Moctar, a singer and virtuoso electric guitarist from the wandering Tuareg tribes of the Sahara Desert in the African country of Niger. Thanks to his special style of playing, combining an ancient musical tradition with influences of electric blues and Western psychedelics, his fine debut album, “Agadez,” which came out in April, is winning significant exposure worldwide. On Tuesday October 18, Bombino and his band will perform in Israel for the first time at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv.In the wake of the album Bombino has been granted the complimentary title of “the desert Hendrix” and he has been compared to the great blues guitarist John Lee Hooker and to African artists like the Tinariwen band and Ali Farka Toure.
When Bombino was 13 years old, his family was forced to flee from Niger on a journey of wanderings through Algeria and Libya. He returned to the land of his birth only last year, at the end of the Second Taureg Revolt, which began in 2007 and lasted about two years.
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The song was filmed while it was actually being recorded for the Bambino CD in a "live" situation. People were invited to attend the recording and dance, sing and clap. It was set up in the courtyard of our rented house in Agadez -- Ron Wyman, Zero Gravity Films
