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This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 4, 2011.
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Digital download of the "Music from Saharan Cellphones" official release w/ liner notes.
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Cassette version of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" + Digital Download (+$10 for international shipping)
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Vinyl LP of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" + Digital Download (+$10 for international shipping)
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Vinyl LP of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" + Cassette + Digital Download (+$10 for international shipping)
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Vinyl LP of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" + Cassette + Digital Download + Glossy 8x10 of one of musicians from compilation (+$10 for international shipping)
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Vinyl LP of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" + Cassette + Digital Download + Glossy 8x10s of all the musicians (+$10 for international shipping)
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A custom, made to order, mix tape made from previously unreleased mp3s from the cellphone archives + All of the above (+$10 for international shipping)
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Original handpainted reproduction of the cover of "Music from Saharan Cellphones" by West African sign painter, Thiam Bellou + All the above (+$10 for international shipping)
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I'll come anywhere in the continental US and DJ a party for you with sounds from the archives of mp3s collected from cellphones + All the above
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Connected as Christopher Kirkley (656 friends)
Sahelsounds is a project begun in 2009 exploring the cultural and musical phenomena of the Sahel region of West Africa. The Sahel is a landscape of dusty scrubland and parched earth, sparsely populated by nomads and semi-nomadic herders as well as first generation urban youth on motorbikes and ed hardy knockoff t-shirts, with cellphone memory cards and usb keys dangling around their necks. Through field recording, interviews, video, youtube archeology, cellphone data collection, sahelsounds uses archiving to transmit a story.