User:Pbtflakes/Sahel Sounds

Sahel Sounds is a blog and record label founded in 2009 by self-described “guerrilla ethnomusicologist” and “non-traditional ethnographer" Christopher Kirkley. It began as a blog for collecting songs from the Sahel in the form of field recordings and songs sent through cell-phone SIM cards and Bluetooth connections. Kirkley's role in local music expanded from compiling the Music From Saharan Cellphones album series to a full record label for the region's musicians. In 2014 Kickstarter was used to fund the first Tuareg fiction film, which drew from Purple Rain and The Harder They Come. The title, Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, translates to Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It since the Tuareg language, Tamashek, has no word for purple.