Tinariwen

Description

Tinariwen’s breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. The first vinyl pressing is limited edition indigo vinyl – only 3000 copies worldwide and the download card provides 24-bit WAV. Amassakoul features songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, and Touhami Ag Alhassane. Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries – Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar, a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen’s music – a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – speaks directly to this feeling of longing: a sound that critics have called “desert blues”.

Tracklist:

• • – 1 –

    • 1. Amassakoul’n’tenere
    • 2. Oualahila Ar Tesninam
    • 3. Chatma
    • 4. Arawan
    • 5. Chet Boghassa
    • 6. Amidinin

  • – 2 –

    • 1. Tenere Dafeo Nikchan
    • 2. Aldhechen Manin
    • 3. Alkhar Dessouf
    • 4. Eh Massina Sintadoben
    • 5. Assoul
    • 6. Taskiwt Tadjat (Bonus Track  prev. unreleased)