|
|
 |
CD Review
|
| Click Here to go back. |
NOW, CD Review >>
Although Tinariwen's recordings are often relegated to the global music section, there's nothing world beaty about their raging Touareg rebel music, which is actually closer in spirit to raw Mississippi hills country blues or first generation rock 'n roll than anything you'd find in a store that sells fair trade coffee alongside hemp clothes. The band members are war-toughened North Malian desert nomads who grew up fighting political and social oppression and finally concluded that using guitars instead of guns might be a better way of finding modern solutions to the ancient problems connected with life in exile. Naturally, their songs deal with the issues of displacement, unemployment and harassment, but nevertheless, there's a spiritually uplifting quality to the music of Aman Iman. It goes beyond the raucously uptempo drones of their past to reveal a more tender, introspective side of Tinariwen typically only heard underneath the stars in the Saharan sand. 03/21/07
|
| Click Here to go back. |
|
 |
|
|
|
