Bombino Music

The latest re-cut of the Bombino documentary Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion is now available on Vimeo On Demand. The film is available for rent for $4.99 and for purchase for $14.99, viewable in the US and Europe.

Bombino performed before an audience of some 150,000 at the annual La Notte Della Taranta Festival in Salento, Apulia, Italy, on Saturday, August 23, 2014. He joined singer/accordionist Claudio Prima to perform "Pizzica Tamasheq," and singer Alessia Tondo for "Lu rusciu te lu mare," both of which were broadcast live via Rai 5. You can watch them below.

For details on where to see Bombino and his band perform live, head to the tour page.

Pizzica Tamasheq:

Bombino was a guest on Che Tempo Che Fa, last night on Italy's Rai 3. He and his band performed "Imuhar," from his 2013 album, Nomad. Among the show's other guests was none other than Jay Leno. You can watch the performance below.

Bombino's album Nomad has been named among NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013. He and The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced the album, "turned out to be a fabulous team," says Bob Boilen, host of NPR's All Songs Considered. "What you hear on Nomad is Bombino's already vigorous sound with a bit more bite." Read more, listen to the album track "Amidinine," and see the complete list of NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013 at npr.org.

Nomad was also recently named to Rolling Stone's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2013 and to Uncut's list of the Best World Music Albums. "For this raw cross-cultural jam, Omara 'Bombino' Moctar—a hot-shit guitarist from Niger—hooked up with Black Key Dan Auerbach, who produced the LP with a crate-digging R&B/psych vibe," says Rolling Stone. "It's full of hypnotic fuzz, and the cosmic country of 'Tamiditine' conjures Workingman's Dead—if it'd been made in the Sahara desert." Read more at rollingstone.com.

To pick up a copy of Nomad, head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout and are now 35% off the standard retail price (about 20% off the everyday low prices listed on the site) through the holidays, as part of the Nonesuch Store anniversary sale.

Bombino stopped by the offices of NPR Music in Washington, DC, during the first leg of his US tour earlier this year, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert—the 300th episode in the series of intimate sets at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. He and his band perform three songs—"Tamiditine," "Her Tenere," and "Imuhar"—from his new album, Nomad.

Boilen, praising Bombino's "fierce, hypnotic guitar playing" and "amazing jams," also recognizes a "familiarity in his music stems from the blues," with connections to Jimi Hendrix, and "a sense of simple, honest discovery that shows up in his smile as he plays." You can read more of what Boilen has to say at npr.org and watch the performance below.