Artist: Tinariwen
Genre(s):
New Age
Rock
Other
Discography:
Aman Iman
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Womad
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Amassakoul
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Radio Tisdas Sessions
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Tinariwen is a Tuareg group that performs in a Middle Eastern/African elan exchangeable to artists like Ali Farka Toure or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. All of the musicians originating from the southern Sahara, the group's key out, meaning "empty places," is a mirror image of their lands of origin. The band formed in the rebel camps of Colonel Ghadaffi, as each of the musicians had been constrained from their nomadic lifestyle into involuntary military inspection and repair. Surrounded by a displaced nation of their peers, Tinariwen forged a new style of music, trading their traditional lutes and shepherd's flutes for electric guitars and drums. The style that resulted was dubbed Tishoumaren, "the medicine of the unemployed people." Their medicine addressed issues such as political awakening, problems of deportee, repression of their people, and demands of sovereignty. In a realm with no postal or telephony system, their tapes presently became a grassroots voice of insurrection and a rallying point for a voiceless nation. Though unlawful in Algeria and Mali, 2001's The Radio Tisdas Sessions and 2004's Amassakoul are uncommitted to Western audiences.
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