Music from Saharan Cellphones

Music from Saharan Cellphones is a compilation album released by Sahel Sounds of different songs by various musicians from Western and Sub-Saharan Africa.

[5] Music from Saharan Cellphones contains an assortment of different songs by various African musicians from Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Nigeria, Morocco, Mali and the Ivory Coast.

[1][4][7] The album was initiated by Sahel Sounds, a Portland-based record label founded in 2009 that specializes in music from the southern part of the Sahara desert.

In the process of the album's production, Sahel Sounds tracked down each of the featured composers in order to obtain proper permissions and pay them for using their music.

Christopher Kirkley, the founder of Sahel Sounds and producer of the album reported that the artists on Music from Saharan Cellphones were given 60% of its proceed sales.