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title: A Belated Prince Tribute
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2017-02-20
tags: post
---

This is very belated, but I thought it would be a nice Tribute to Prince to link a cool, relevant project started by someone here in Portland: [Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai](http://sahelsounds.com/2015/01/akounak_premiere/). Translated to English that means "Rain the Color Blue with a little Red in it" only because there was no direct translation for Purple Rain — the film they attempted to recreate using West African musicians.

You can read more about it on the [archived Kickstarter page](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/454629120/akounak-the-feature-film-of-a-tuareg-guitarist-in).

I also recommend looking at the musical project(s) that preceded  this one at [Sahel Sounds](http://sahelsounds.com/). If you like field recordings, found sounds and the musical traditions of West Africa mixed with modern and Western sensibilities, you'll love it.

<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=630687626/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/agrim-agadez">Agrim Agadez by Various Artists</a></iframe>

Last but not least, Prince was featured prominently in an older blog post of mine. As part of my belated tribute, here it is: 

[Building better websites 4 U with Prince](https://george.mand.is/2014/08/building-better-websites-4-u-with-prince/)