By Iminza Keboge
Published July 5, 2020
If you like music in the background as you work, chat or relax, you are likely to enjoy Invisible System: Ambiences In Mali.
The 180-minute compilation that could be listened to as you relax or sleep is said to be a field recordings over a four year period. It has just been released on Harper Diabate Records of United Kingdom.
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These recordings of atmospheres and soundscapes to sleep, relax and space out to stem from Dan Harper’s field trips working around the Sahara desert, Ghana and Ethiopia.
Bamako Sessions, released on Riverboat Records, and Dance To The Full Moon, released on ARC Music, are two other albums made from Dan Harper’s field recordings.
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While you get the opportunity to listen to water falls and streams on some tracks on Invisible System: Ambiences In Mali, you also get to hear Malians playing traditional instrumentation in the villages and Tuareg women singing, clapping and playing the imzhad traditional violin.
The Tuareg, who are part of the nomadic pastoralists known as Berbers, live in the Sahara Desert that stretches from Libya and Algeria to Niger, and from Mali and Burkina Faso to Nigeria.
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Also included on the new album are some sounds from backpacking around Ghana in west Africa and urban sounds from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Harper says that unlike in western Africa where he made more atmospheres and soundscapes, he made more music and less soundscape recordings in the Horn of Africa country mainly because he was based in the city of Addis Ababa rather than in the rural areas of Africa’s second most populous country.
