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Tinariwen: Aman Iman

by Deanne Sole

[16.Mar.07] :. Tinariwen plays rock guitar with a rangy American sound, broad and lazy and slow.

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Desert Trance

by Derek Beres

[8.Dec.06] :. These are the sort of flowers that bloom in the Sahara Desert: thumb pianos, distorted amps, muddy blues, and traditional chants.

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Tartit: Abacabok

by Deanne Sole

[9.Nov.06] :. Comparisons between Tartit and the better-known Tinariwen seem inevitable, but, really, there's no reason why one should be confused with the other, or why you shouldn't like both in different ways.

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Tinariwen: Amassakoul

by Gypsy Flores

[5.Jan.05] :. Although Halloween night was cold and cloudy in Santa Cruz, the desert winds blew in soft and sultry toward the Kuumbwa Jazz Center to quite possibly one of the finest concerts of the year of 2004 in...

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Various Artists: Festival in the Desert

by Gypsy Flores

[13.Jan.04] :. More than anything else, the Festival in the Desert is a symbol of unity and peace between nomadic tribes. The Tamashek of northern Mali and Niger, who had been warring for years, had recently burned...

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Tinariwen: The Radio Tisdas Sessions

by Barbara Flaska

[17.Jan.03] :. This debut album by Tinariwen, also known as the Tuareg Rebel Blues Band, can seem the antithesis of Western pop music, even that generated by the engines currently driving the world music markets.

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