"Seen this way, they are just some boards" "Traditional instruments normally are made with materials which happen to be around so in our town the txalaparta is made of wood." "The mode of playing is what makes it special." "It's the only instrument we know that is played between two people." "It is a fusion of understanding and what emerges is txalaparta." "Music from the txalaparta is not from one or other" "It arises from the sum of the two" "It is a dialogue you don't know what will happen nor how it will end" "For us txalaparta really is an attitude" "A way to walk together and be understood" "Each village, each location." "has its sound and its own voice" "We are on a journey to other places to search for new sounds." "Playing txalaparta and traveling are similar." "You never know what will happen." "So you see." "They are just timber." "Ice cream" "There is ice cream." "We can go faster." "In your time you have come to my time." "Okay." "Perfect." "The same on both sides of B." "B changes from one part to the other." "We came to the territory of jackals." "The aborigines of India." "Other nomadic peoples expelled them from their land." "The live excluded, outside the caste system" "Adivas Town" "I'll tell you a story if you have a moment to stop on the road." "Listen, this is a legendary story" ""Legendary?" "More than legendary, so impossible that it can sometimes be a lie." "But I live imagining." "The poor man always lives imagining." "They came from far away" "Two Aborigines came in search of sounds." "How does this sound?" "How does this sound like another?" "They asked the tree with the tree" "Water with water" "A land with land" "They listened carefully to each response from the earth." "And they discovered that the earth is full of sounds from which to learn." "And so sounded the earth." "and all they touched." "They joined their sounds with ours" "And guess what emerged?" "And the tree answered 'tree'" "The earth responded." "The encounter between two is an encounter with the land" "We belong to her." "SAAPMl Arctic Circle" "Have you been told what we use?" "They were in the garage." "Already we will compare two other lands." "Great." "Also it's staying beautiful as a stencil." "Down." "Down." "It is still nice, right?" "We close this side and continue." "The deeper, the more serious." "We've already lowered it." "Come in." "If you stay frozen." "I catch you with this." "If the wood is cut and with a knife." "How beautiful." "It will be cool to play with this." " What note is it?" " # Si #" "# La # and start at # Re #" "Sami Town" "GOD COUNTRY AND KING" "Berber Town" "Wait." "How are you?" "You're eating bread, eh?" "Hello, how are you?" "Everything OK?" "Yep." "# We cast our seeds to the ground #" "# We cast our seeds to the ground #" "# And make them bloom land #" "Chou, where are we going?" "To your mother's house?" "Yeah, to my mother's house." "We go home to my mother." "Is this the campground of Hassan?" "This is the campground of Abdul" "This is chiringuito Mohamed" "Should I leave the money here?" "Not now, later." "OK." "But this is the site?" "Yes, here." "Nervous?" "No, very quiet or very calm visit, surprise." "Park right here, yes." "There is your home, chou." "Yes." "What do we bring up?" "Yes, let's go." "What a surprise!" "Chou has come!" "Oh my baby, Chou!" "Hello." "How are you?" "# Time to time #" "# With time. #" "# Our seeds flourish #" "How's it going?" "In good health?" "We are glad to see you." "How was the trip?" "Bobbing head back and forth." "We do two things:" "one on the ground and the other double." "# God is one." "God is love. #" "# God is one." "God is love. #" "Berber" "Muslim" "We emigrated from Sudan." "There was a lot of poverty and war." "We had to escape." "We came here and here we have built our home and our freedom." "To play txalaparta with you?" "Listen to the noise." "or better" "Thanks." "To your health." "Health, 'Ali the lame'" "SAHARA DESERT" "# I am Berber #" "# I was born Berber #" "# And I'm dying Berber #" "There is no transport." "These are Basques." "Vasco de Gama." "# Take my word and I claim #" "# As the rising sun and the sky #" "Miracle" " What do you want?" "Merzouga." "Basques?" "Berbers." "We are the same." "Good people" "# Ong etorri # (Welcome)" "# Eskerrikasko # (Thanks)" "# I'm having fun #" "# Do not change a thing #" "Move over." "Look, there are many up here." "And down too." "If you go smoothly, you will see them." "One, two, three." "Look, three horns" "One, two, three." "And here also" "In the Berber mountain testing a little txalaparta" "Let's see if we're lucky, Chou." "It has three outlets" "to see if they finish it." "It is a high # Fa #" "Then we don't have lows." "What is a lower note?" "lower than high # Si #" "Almost # Fa #" "Very good." "Yes, yes." "Life is hard." "Very hard." "ALGERIA TINDOUF" "Saharaui Refugee Camp" "The people do not want that" "A mother has lost her children, her husband, her father." "Her entire family in a war." "Giving blood." "She has given blood and you think that woman or man or that girl will see it as doing a favor." "No." "We want to achieve what is ours." "And with heads held high." "SAHARA VILLAGE" "What's up?" "Great." "Thank God." "What's up?" "What going on?" "How's everything?" "OK?" "Of course." "I am Saharan." " Has your brother come?" "No." "Do you live here with the family?" "Do you know who's there?" "Tagiya" "I sent a letter with Fatimetu" "Good evening and welcome to the wilaya of Dajila" "We've been hearing Saharan music and now I will introduce you to a group called Oreka TX" "They play a traditional instrument called the txalaparta." "Before you continue your journey they want to play for us" "A round of applause" "They are musicians." "They play the txalaparta." "In the 60s it almost disappeared." "Only two pairs were playing it." "A generation of young musicians has revived it." "It ss called" "Txalaparta" "Should I call you later?" "Tomorrow afternoon after the performance maybe we could record together." "Okay, see you there." "Improvising?" "You are improvising it?" "Yes." "Like in the beginning," "To start here and end up the same." "What is the name of the song?" "Bask-khas" "Ready?" "Chimbad?" "Do you know it?" "Chimbad?" "Where?" "25 kilometers" "No problem." "I don't think that it has driven much" "# The horses are beautiful #" "# And I take care of them #" "# I am a happy and free rider #" "It's a long song." "Ambra!" "Bring the rope." "There are many horses." "You weigh a lot." "My father told me the most important thing for a nomad is a family." "The horse and friends." "To be able to trust them." "To work and meet them." "With the strength of many people you can do great things." "We go # ovo choo # to shelter ourselves from the winter" "to know God and heaven" "Bon voyage!" "Tsaatan Town" "If you go north you will reach the land of the tsaatanes." "It won't be easy to meet them." "They are nomads and live very isolated" "There's only some 40 families left." "Outside?" "Good morning" "# The sun melted on top the snow on the peaks #" "# Torrential down into the valleys #" "# Unstoppable momentum #" "# In us is the sun #" "# The darkness and ice. #" "# Can be broken by light #" "# And melted the heart #" "# Opening their separate ways #" "# Between everything we do ours #" "# We go widening #" "# The human journey #" "# While there are those who go hungry #" "# While there is an underdog #" "# No one in any place dominated #" "# Each is his own boss #" "# When all the towns are united #" "# We will have our future #" "I consider myself a nomad." "But a nomad by choice." "I'm not moving to escape war or famine." "I move to meet new people, see new places." "And that is a privilege" "If you make a verse, I would say" "I am glad to see you." "How is everything?" "Good." "And your health?" "Fine." "We had problems to understand their music and they had problems with ours." "We are all giving our best." "We have always tried to protect our rights" "We are a people living in different countries but we feel like one people" "Love of liberty" "Love for people." "By a people." "Love for a dream by one person." "Love is very important" "As long as the rich do not understand the suffering of the poor there will be no justice in this world" "Will Mongolia be the last nomadic country?" "Or perhaps in a few years many countries will become nomadic again." "My only wish is independence of Western Sahara." "It has been my dream for 30 years." "For that I have given my whole life." "My wish in life is to be happy" "Having some money to survive form a family and the peacefulness that I have here."