North Niger, nov. 2004, in the touareg camp of Galelo and the city of Agadez

    chants_percus_reverb_naturelle_44k.mp3 kids starting a Tindé ceremony / voices, clapping hands and a water drum, strange natural reverb chant_danse_enfants.mp3 same Tindé, young girls choir / dancing steps of the young men cri_et_tccc_chevre_Raichita.mp3 The young Raichita is calling her goats Mortier_cuisiniere.mp3 pestle, mortar, breathing to prepare lunch meal for kids, class in the background Mortier%20cuisiniere_bass.mp3 the effort of cooking preche_music_rue_agadez.mp3 Agadez City, night time, call for pray and music store RFI_USA_IRAK_in_NIGER Galelo camp awakening. On a tiny radio, Radio France International journalist is waiting for the result of the american elections.

 

Those sounds were recorded for the documentary film

Ménilmontant – Agadez, d’une école à l’autre

shot in Northern Niger by Luc Federmeyer and his crew

(52’, Sombrero Productions – TV5 Monde, France – Niger, 2005)

 

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