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Acoustic Guitar Magazine, CD Review >>
Tinariwen, The Radio Tisdas Sessions.
There's an even darker blues tradition out there in the trackless sub-Saharan waste than Western world music fans have ever heard. Tinariwen, a band of former Tuareg desert fighters who literally exchanged their rifles for guitars, play the blues stripped bare-powerful music built on raw, uncompromising grooves. Edgier than much Malian guitar, the music is both fearless and hypnotically hopeful. The Tuareg lyrics are not translated, though the singing style is reminiscent of both Arabic and sub-Saharan griot traditions. According to the notes, though, the band's highly political songs were banned for decades while they stayed beyond the reach of Malian and Algerian authorities before finding a safe haven in Bamako in 1999. These guys are the ultimate outsiders, their cultural tensions perhaps best expressed by the two names by which they are known: Imashagen meaning "it is free" and Tuareg meaning "abandoned by the gods." (World Village, www.worldvillagemusic.com) -Danny Carnahan 05/01/03 >> go there
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