TINARIWEN
Tinariwen feat. Kyp et Tunde from TV on the Radio :
Listen: Imidiwan Ma Tenam (Tassili)
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Tinariwen is a pioneer of a new style of music : revolutionary, rebellious blues and rock ‘n’ roll, based on traditional Touareg melodies and rhythms. Its essence mixes the bitter sound of spiky guitars with the often-pantheistic approach of lyrical poetry, that celebrates the sacred union between a people and their environment, and is the reflection of painful collective circumstances.
In the 1980’s Ibrahim, Abdallah, Hassan, ‘Japonais’ and Kheddou began to play together and record cassettes in the town of Tamanrasset in southern Algeria. They all then spent several years in the same military training camp in Libya before the Touareg rebellion broke out and sent them out onto the field of battle in the southern Sahara.
In parallel, Tinariwen’s cassettes scattered far and wide, helped to broadcast the message of a rebel movement that set out to promote the rights of nomadic people suffering under the arbitrary policies of repressive and distant central governments.
The poet-guitarists and soul rebels soon became a professional unit that toured the world, lately headlining at various important festivals including Glastonbury and Coachella. Their albums Aman Iman (2007) and Imidiwan (2009) were eulogized by the media and attracted the praise of Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Thom Yorke, Brian Eno and Carlos Santana, with whom Tinariwen performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006.
On their new album, Tassili (2011), they have engineered a minor aesthetic revolution by setting the electric guitar – the instrument which became their mascot and made them famous – to one side and giving pride of place to acoustic sounds, recorded right in the heart of the desert, which is the cradle of their culture and the source of their inspiration. It isn’t just an extraordinary musical moment, (Tassili features TV on the Radio, Wilco’s guitarist Nels Cline and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band), it’s also a shared human experience of rare quality.
The band whose music was the soundtrack to a real revolt is now a poem about the rebellion of the soul and the pride of a desert nation.
‘Tassili’ (Cooperative/Anti) Release in August
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OohlaLA September 30th :
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