Articles tagged "tinariwen"

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African blues from Terakaft

by Jennifer Kelly

[13.Feb.09] :. I’ve lately been digging the drone-infused mesmerisms of Tinariwen, a collective whose members are drawn from the Tuareg people. The music, if you’re not already familiar with it, has a...

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Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali

by Deanne Sole

[9.Sep.08] :. An album that is paradoxically almost redundant and almost perfect.

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Toumast: Ishumar

by Deanne Sole

[3.Mar.08] :. It’s as if ag Keyna has looked back at the work Tinariwen has done, felt that the sound he wanted to build on had already been established, and, with that support behind him, felt free to experiment.

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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

by Timothy G. Merello

[24.Apr.06] :. thumb the low bass strings and simultaneously pick and twang the higher notes, masterfully demonstrating the link between the Mississippi Delta and the Saharan sands.

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...

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...

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.