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 Cassius Marcellus Clay Farka Toure or Nusrat Fateh Cassius Marcellus Clay Caravanserai. Altogether of the musicians originating from the southern Sahara, the group's key out, meaning "evacuate places," is a mirror double of their lands of origin. The band formed in the greyback camps of Colonel Ghadaffi, as each of the musicians had been constrained from their nomadic modus vivendi into involuntary military machine inspection and repair. Surrounded by a displaced carry Nation of their peers, Tinariwen forged a freshly style of music, trading their traditional lutes and shepherd's flutes for electric guitars and drums. The style that resulted was dubbed Tishoumaren, "the music of the unemployed people." Their medicine addressed issues such as political waking up, problems of deportee, repression of their people, and demands of sovereignty. In a realm with no postal or telephone system, their tapes presently became a grassroots voice of insurrection and a rally tip for a voiceless country. Though unlawful in Algerie and French Sudan, 2001's The Radiocommunication Tisdas Sessions and 2004's Amassakoul ar uncommitted to Western audiences.
