Oct 12, 2026 · 23 min · 13 segments
The Portland-based group Seffarine blends traditional music from Morocco and Southern Spain with jazz and other contemporary genres. Their upcoming album…
Dave MillerHostUh, you cross the Atlas Mountains to get to it, and it is literally the end of the road.
Once you're at Hamid, the island, there is no other road, only the sand, until you get to Timbuktu from, um, from Hamid, the island.
And if you see the buildings there, if you go to the, any corner in the city, you see the effect of climate change.
They keep trying to stop the sand, but the sa-sand is so strong and, um, it keeps moving forward.
Um, you see a lot of dry palm trees around, so there, there is a lot of, um, climate change, um, there.
Uh, we went there first for a residency, actually, at a music school, uh, in Hamid called the Judura Sahara that, um, is trying to document and preserve and teach to young people the, the many, many traditions, because as Lamia mentioned, it's really at the end of the road.
Uh, it was also kind of the departure point and arrival point for the caravans that went across the Sahara.
So musically, that's, you know, it makes this really interesting crossroad of, um, there are Arab nomads with their own traditions.
There, um, there are descendants of West African enslaved people with their own traditions that were brought across the Sahara.
Uh, you cross the Atlas Mountains to get to it, and it is literally the end of the road.
Once you're at Hamid, the island, there is no other road, only the sand, until you get to Timbuktu from, um, from Hamid, the island.
And if you see the buildings there, if you go to the, any corner in the city, you see the effect of climate change.
They keep trying to stop the sand, but the sa-sand is so strong and, um, it keeps moving forward.
Um, you see a lot of dry palm trees around, so there, there is a lot of, um, climate change, um, there.
Uh, we went there first for a residency, actually, at a music school, uh, in Hamid called the Judura Sahara that, um, is trying to document and preserve and teach to young people the, the many, many traditions, because as Lamia mentioned, it's really at the end of the road.
Uh, it was also kind of the departure point and arrival point for the caravans that went across the Sahara.
So musically, that's, you know, it makes this really interesting crossroad of, um, there are Arab nomads with their own traditions.
There, um, there are descendants of West African enslaved people with their own traditions that were brought across the Sahara.
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