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Tinariwen ' Lulla' - Music Video

Tinariwen ' Lulla' - Music Video

'Lulla' is taken from Tinariwen's new album 'Imidiwan'.

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YouTube Tinariwen Videos

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Tinariwen - Lulla

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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.

Amassakoul -- Tinariwen from Live 8 Eden Africa Calling

Amassakoul -- Tinariwen from Live 8 Eden Africa Calling (06:16)

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...

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

Music of Resistance - Tinariwen - 10 Feb 09 - Part 1 (11:30)

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: "The deserts", plural of "tenere" meaning "desert") is a band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Formed in 1979, they rose to prominence in the 1980s as the pied pipers of a new political and social conscience in the southern Sahara, and the icons of a whole generation of young Touareg living in exile in Algeria and Libya. In the early 2000s Tinariwen started to gain a following outside Africa, first in the world music community, and then in the wider rock scene, thanks to frequent tours and appearances at major festival in Europe and the USA. After releasing their second CD album 'Amassakoul' in 2004 they become one of the most successful African groups in the world, and won several prestigious awards. They sing about the suffering and exile of their people, the semi-nomadic Kel Tamashek of the southern Sahara, and about their beauty of the desert home.

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Tinariwen's Best Songs

  • 1. Cler Achel
  • 2. MataDJem Yinmixan
  • 3. Mano Dayak
  • 4. Toumast
  • 5. Ahimana
  • 6. Assoul
  • 7. Assouf
  • 8. Imidiwan Winakalin
  • 9. Soixante Trois
  • 10. Tamatant Tilay
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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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