...Ostao Je Samo Blues U Pustinji... Tinariwen - Tenere Taqhim Tossam (Official Video)
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Tinariwen is a Tuareg group that performs in a Middle Eastern/African style similar to artists like Ali Farka Toure or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. All of the musicians originate from the southern Sahara, the group’s name, meaning “empty places,” is a reflection of their land of origin.
The rock stars of northern Mali’s Tuareg tribe set their electric guitars aside and send the female singers home for their most emotionally involved set yet. Recorded in an Algerian desert tent, Tinariwen’s fifth album Tassili, takes off on an acoustic path following the open- ing track’s otherworldy appearance by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline. The Dirty Dozen Brass Bandand TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone merely drop in on the slow-grooving, call-and-response…
The music of Tinariwen is at once exotic and familiar– the scales and arrangements are as strange to our ears as the language they sing in, but there’s a force operating on a more subliminal level that unites it to something rattling around inside anyone who was brought up on blues or rock & roll. It’s music of longing and rebellion, weary wisdom and restless energy, and it sounds so, so good.” – Pitchfork
