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By mixing blues and hard funk with traditional North African folk rhythms, Tinariwen manage to ease you into new sounds while keeping you grounded in those you know and love. It took these former freedom fighters about twenty years to be able to record these tracks and those on their first two records; many are decades old and have been carried around and polished by the band all these years, befitting the nomadic nature of the band and of the people whose lives and struggles they celebrate in song. This is real rebel music, made by men battle tested in the fight for freedom; and it rocks too!From blues and funk jams like "Cler Achel" and “Assouf,” the psych dub of Toumast," to straight-on rockers like "Matadjem Yinmixan," Tinariwen sing and play with abandon and a sense of purpose. English lyrics are provided; singer Ibrahim Ag Alhabib’s plaintive yet defiant delivery is universal—it is the sound of real experience and wisdom. File “Water is Life” with your blues or your Dylan or even your punk records. Water Is Life is brave, and as respectful of the traditional as it seeks to move beyond it into something raw and new. 02/01/08 >> go there
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