Cloudspeakers

As the latest by this Tuareg blues tribe shows, desert nomads gotta move. Having worked in studios,they return to their home village in northern Mali, where they jammed and recorded via generator a... Read more

Man würde es sich viel, viel zu einfach machen, würde man die Faszination, die das neue Tinariwen-Album „Imidiwan: Companions“ verströmt, einzig und allein auf seine Herkunft zurückführen. Selbstve... Read more

The Toureg people (kel Tamashek in their own language) are nomads. In the old days they urged their camels through the wild landscape of the Sahel that drapes around the shoulders of northwest Afri... Read more

Le charme ondulatoire des musiques touarègues opère toujours. Une al-chimie de sensua­lité aquatique et d'âpreté terrienne d'autant plus cap­tivante qu'est... Read more

Travel changes you. It has to. There's no way to experience something outside of the familiar and not be affected, if only in the smallest way. Tinariwen come from a people whose history is travel.... Read more

To most of us the desert looks to be an inhospitable land, devoid of life. You wouldn't think that anything could survive out there let alone humans and their herds of goats and camels. Yet for... Read more

In alternatieve kringen is de term The Desert Sessions al langer dan vandaag een begrip van betekenis. Rosse rockgod Josh Homme pleegt muzikale vriendjes uit te nodigen in de befaamde Rancho De La ... Read more

After a handful of albums, each of which saw an exponential growth of publicity, for Tinariwen little has really changed. A lot of myths have been perpetuated, most of which conveniently doubled as... Read more

Anyone who considers "world music" a dirty word (and I'd put myself in that category) should check out this latest disc from Tinariwen. The Tuareg (a Berber group that live in Saharan nor... Read more

When you consider the humble beginnings of Malian Tuareg desert blues collective Tinariwen as rebel fighters/part-time musicians, and their current status one of the most popular `world' music acts... Read more