01 La Mone by Nickel B
"...L’Orchestre Nationale was the first modern Mauritanian musical
troupe. In 1967, the young president Moktar Ould Daddah sent Hadrami
along with 14 other musicians to Guinea Conakry for musical training in
what would be the first experiment in modernization — incorporating a
brass section and electric guitars — but retaining the Hoddu and finding
a particularly important place for the Mauritanian flute, the Neyfara,
featured prominently on a number of tracks. Returning to Nouakchott, a
town of no more 20,000 in the pre-drought Mauritania, the L’Orchestre
National was the official band of the new country, playing in official
capacity for the president in all social events, and providing a
soundtrack of post-colonial aspirations..."
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