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Eye Weekly, CD Review >>
After achieving crossover success, Imidiwan is being touted as Tinariwen’s inevitable back-to-basics record. With the relative gloss applied by former producer Justin Adams on their previous record stripped away, Imidiwan feels like a clutch of campfire songs and, indeed, Jean-Paul Romann recorded the band on a laptop under the Saharan sky. There are few anthemic moments or roiling grooves; these introspective songs focus on guitars relentlessly grinding out titanic licks which feel like the Rosetta Stone for American blues. Their typically imagistic lyrics suggest the erosion of past militancy from a revolution nearly 20 years gone, replaced instead by a reaffirmation of their hard-won friendship. Another stellar album from the world’s greatest rock ’n’ roll band. 08/12/09 >> go there
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