Radio Niger, by Sublime Frequencies

Radio Niger

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1.	Radio Tenere - Gaudel Mollo Swagger 07:46	buy track
2.	Death On The Back Of The Neck 10:34	buy track
3.	Hauka Possession Splendor 10:03	buy track
4.	Agadez Fatimata 05:53	buy track
5.	Nomad/Sahara FM 04:38	buy track
6.	Auto-Tune Your Own Scene! 08:27	buy track
7.	Moussa Poussy Galore! 08:18	buy track
8.	Sahel Drum-Machine Gun 04:10	buy track

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Although it’s one of the poorest nations on the planet in terms of the UN’s Human Development Index, Niger has one of the most diverse and richly ornamented cultures on the African continent. The country’s first station, Radio Niger, went on the air in 1958 and was renamed Voix du Sahel in 1974. In 1979, the government established the Broadcasting Corporation of Niger State (BCNS).

Today, Radio Niger is where the country’s range of ethnicities, with their disparate customs of language and music, combine to create an astonishingly complex sonic patchwork: Bawdy, drunken sages and storytellers wandering into the studio; local shout-outs to girlfriends and family members; comedy skits juxtaposed with Zarma/Songhai mollo (a regional stringed instrument) and Denke-denke mollo from neighboring Burkina Faso dissolving into Tuareg guitar blues trance. News snippets from RFI and the BBC vie for supremacy with Hausa women's ensembles; Malian Kora collides with Zarma Koranic transmissions; lo-fi cassettes from the marketplace bump up against animist Bori folk dirges and the vapid autotune stylings of modern Nigerian pop. DJs bring an improvisational element to local radio: singing along with tracks live on air; creating live multichannel compositions and avant-collage cutups; and generally preserving the human element that has long since disappeared from corporate western radio. In short, Radio Niger is outlaw radio, broadcast with freedom and spontaneity, and bathed in an arid fidelity that reveals the region’s character and landscape.

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released December 6, 2010

Recorded and edited on location throughout the Republic of Niger 2005-2007.
Sequence and final edit 2013.
Many thanks: Brian Nowak, Holly Parker, Stephanie Oppenheimer, Abdul-Rahman Bianou, Ibrahim Diallo (Aïr Info), Brandon Kearney.

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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