Tamikrest – review

The Borderline, LondonTamikrest must long for a review that doesn't mention the word Tinariwen, but this is clearly not to be the one. The band's leader, singer-songwriter and guitarist Ousmane Ag Mossa was only five years old when he first heard a Tinariwen song while living in a little village in the Sahara, up in the north-east of Mali towards the Algerian border. Since then, Tinariwen have rightfully become known across the world as the superstars of African desert blues and the nomadic Toua...

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