Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. But that's all a sideshow: The ...
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Since the Tuareg guitar band Tinariwen from Mali was launched into the international stratosphere nearly 20 years ago, it’s become something of a rite of passage for rock musicians to guest on their ...
Theirs is a poetry declaimed over slow loping camel rhythms fired up through a mesh of guitars and bass lines, handclaps and ululations that sounds less like ecstatic release than outbursts of panic, ...
The early incarnation of Tinariwen was formed as a collective around campfires in the Saharan desert by young Tuareg musicians on a mission – to promote a way of life for their people to unite in ...
After the chaos, warfare and corruption of the past several years in their native country, the Tuareg guitar gods deliver a more bitter message. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...
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