Imarhan / Imarhan
Album: Imarhan   Collection:World
Artist:Imarhan   Added:May 2017
Label:City Slang  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-05-10 Pull Date: 2017-07-12 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Jun 25 Jun 18 Jun 11 Jun 4 May 28 May 21
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 2 4

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 14, 2022: At the Cafe Bohemian (rebroadcast from Jun 14, 2017)
Tahabort
4. Jun 14, 2017: At the Cafe Bohemian
Tahabort
2. Jun 21, 2017: At the Cafe Bohemian
Tahabort
5. Jun 08, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Imarhan
3. Jun 15, 2017: Road Trip
Arodj N-Inizdjam
6. Jun 01, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Imarhan

Album Review
Decca
Reviewed 2017-05-02
Imarhan (meaning “the ones I care about”) is an Algerian Taureg rock/blues band that formed in 2006. This is their first release. Related both musically and by blood to Tinariwen. (There are cousins in each group.) Great guitar work, great laid-back vocals (nicely raspy and good use of backing voices), so cool with its of funk, even a hit of surf at time. It’s all damn good. Great performances & energy.

1. Relaxed, head-nodding w/cool vocals.
2. Fast, fast w/great energy & hip North Africa vocals. Oh yeah!
3. Downtempo, rather spare blues, then picks up and relaxes again.
4. Bright & sharp guitar, mostly midtempo w/cool perc/vocals.
5. Driving mid/upbeat blues stomp. Tight arrangement.
6. Fast Afro-rock w/great guitar/percussion work. So good.
7. Lazy, mostly midtempo w/male vox/percussion accents.
8. Really delicious relaxed North African folksy blues.
9. Sharp, driving rock guitars nicely droning vocals w/chorus.
10. Stripped down, vox/guitar, downtempo & evocative blues.

Track Listing
1. Tarha Tadagh   6. Imarhan
2. Tahabort   7. Adounia Azdjazzaqat
3. Ibas Ichikkou   8. Id Islegh
4. Idarchan Net   9. Arodj N-Inizdjam
5. Assossamagh   10. Alwak