Tinariwen - 'Tassili'
Dismiss Tinariwen as the boring band you invariably fast-forward through on Later… With Jools Holland at your own risk. For one, theirs is, undoubtedly, a pretty bad-ass tale: a band of Tuareg desert-dwellers, formed in the mid-’80s in...
Album review: Tinariwen - 'Imidwan: Companions'
Mali is arguably the most musically diverse country in Africa. At the other end of the scale from the state-sanctioned virtuoso kora player Toumani Diabate (the star of Damon Albarn’s ‘Mali Music’) are Tinariwen . Their history as Saharan...
