Deran

'Deran' is a full-length album from Niger-born Tuareg guitar virtuoso,

Bombino. 'Deran' - which loosely translates to "best wishes" - is Bombino's most focused, compelling, and diverse statement to date, and delivers a message of hope and well-wishes to the world in a time of great pain and tumult.

Written and sung entirely in Bombino's native language of Tamasheq, 'Deran' was recorded in Casablanca - at a studio owned by current Moroccan king Mohammed VI, no less - over a ten day stretch, and marks his first time making an album in Africa in nearly a decade.

Over the past decade, Bombino has grown into an internationally renowned and acclaimed act with an impressive list of collaborators and on-the-record admirers ranging from Stevie Wonder, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors) Dan Auerbach + more.

He's performed at Bonnaroo and Newport Folk Festival, and been hailed by Pitchfork as "both authentic and ambitious."