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Tinariwen - Lulla Play Video

Tinariwen - Lulla

Lulla is taken from Tinariwen's new album "Imidiwan: Companions". The footage featured in the video are clips taken from the DVD short film that accompanies the new album. Buy Tinariwen - Imidiwan:Companions on iTunes...

Amassakoul -- Tinariwen from Live 8 Eden Africa Calling Play Video

Amassakoul -- Tinariwen from Live 8 Eden Africa Calling

The great Mali desert band Tinariwen was one of the highlights of Live 8, the African concert hosted by Peter Gabriel and WOMAD. A major influence on Robert Plant's recent music, Tinariwen are touring in fall 2007 and...

Tinariwen & Carlos Santana : Amassakoul Play Video

Tinariwen & Carlos Santana : Amassakoul

Tinariwen perform "Amasskoul" with special guest Carlos Santana at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Tinariwen - TENERE TAQQIM TOSSAM Play Video

Tinariwen - TENERE TAQQIM TOSSAM

"TENERE TAQQIM TOSSAM" by Tinariwen featuring Tunde Adebimpe & Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio 'Tassili' in stores August 30th!

Music of Resistance - Tinariwen - 10 Feb 09 - Part 1 Play Video

Music of Resistance - Tinariwen - 10 Feb 09 - Part 1

The nomadic Touareg tribes have endured years of drought and civil war. The one constant through this hardship has been the music of Tinariwen. Once a group of rebel soldiers, training alongside Colonel Gadaffi in...

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Tinariwen Biography

Tinariwen (Tamashek-Berber: ?????, ??????, tinariwen "deserts", plural of tenere "desert") is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s. The group first started to gain a following outside the Sahara region in 2001, with the release of The Radio Tisdas Sessions, and the performances at Festival au Desert in Mali and at the Roskilde festival in Denmark. Their popularity rose internationally with the release of the critically acclaimed Aman Iman in 2007. Tinariwen's biography has variously been described as "the most compelling of any band" (Songlines), "the most rock'n'roll of them all" (The Irish Times), "hard-bitten" (Slate.com), and "dramatic" (The Independent). The band released their fifth album Tassili on August 30, 2011. "Tassili" won the Best World Music Album at the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12th 2012.

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Tinariwen Discography

Tinariwen albums.

  • Imidiwan: Companions - 29/06/2009 (Independiente/GB)
  • Aman Iman: Water Is Life - 05/02/2007 (Independiente/GB)
  • Amassakoul - (Independent Records Ltd/GB)

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