Deseos (Mariem Hassan album)

Deseos[4] (meaning desires or wishes) is the 2005 debut solo album of the Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan. The album was recorded at Axis estudios in Madrid, and produced by guitarist Baba Salama, who died of leukemia one week before the release of the album. With the use of two electric guitars (played by Baba Salama and Boika Hassan, Mariem's brother) and two tbals (played by Fatta Sadaf and Leila), the album had been hailed as a fresh actualization of the traditional Sahrawi Haul traditional music. The song "La Tumchu anni" is one of the highlights, a picturesque desert blues. It also contains one of Mariem's most known songs, "La Intifada", about the 2005 Sahrawi Independence Intifada.[5] "El Chouhada" is dedicated to her three dead brothers, who were killed fighting during the Western Sahara War,[6] while in "Mutamaniyat" she asks God for the healing of her breast cancer.[7]

Deseos
Studio album by
Mariem Hassan
Released20 September 2005 (Spain)[1]
8 February 2006 (UK)
Recorded2005
Axis estudios, Madrid
GenreBlues, Folk, World
Length63:45
LabelNubenegra
ProducerBaba Salama Said & Manuel Domínguez
Mariem Hassan chronology
Mariem Hassan con Leyoad
(2002)		 Deseos
(2005)		 Shouka
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Songlines (magazine) [2]
Robert ChristgauB+ [3]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Mawal"3:12
2."Magat milktna dulaa"4:49
3."La Tumchu anni"6:40
4."Mutamaniyat"4:31
5."El Chouhada"4:45
6."Shauda"6:36
7."La Intifada"6:36
8."Sbar"4:14
9."El Arabi"2:43
10."Kalat Leili"6:36
11."Tirka"2:56
12."El Magil"4:20
13."Jelefne bi salam"3:59
14."Mawal"1:48

References
  1. Mariem Hassan - Deseos cd Fnac.es
  2. "Top of the World". Songlines magazine. March–April 2006. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  3. "Mariem Hassan". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  4. "Deseos - Mariem Hassan". Allmusic. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  5. "Mariem Hassan - Deseos". nubenegra.com. Nubenegra. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  6. Stefan Simanowitz (August 5, 2009). "Mariem Hassan: The voice of Western Sahara". Prospect. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  7. "Mariem Hassan: Saharawi journey and the music of exile, Part 1". ABC Radio National. March 10, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2012.


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