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The Beat, CD Review >>
(part of larger article, "State of the Heart," by Robert Ambrose)
...Edging out all the veterans discussed above, at least until Salif Keita arrived, has been The Radio Tisdas Sessions (World Village/Harmonia Mundi) by Tuareg rebel band Tinariwen. "Discovered" by members of the French band Lo'Jo in Mali, Tinariwen actually have a long history of making activist music as the cultural arm of the Tuareg, or Kel Tamashek, rebellion against the Malian government (see http://www.justinadams.co.uk/tinbiog.htm). The band invented the unique Tishoumaren music to adapt the traditional music of their nomadic social structure to the smaller confines of refugee camps in Libya. Access to electric guitars and radio broadcasts of global pop transformed the music from the style championed by the folk group Tartit, into a spare guitar and percussion mix-up that is the veritable desert blues. The band hits a groove on every song, and while there is not huge variation between tracks, the whole album resonates with auth-enticity and austere beauty. 10/01/02
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