When Tunng met Tinariwen

Could a band of African nomads and UK folktronica pioneers form a musical alliance in five days flat? Alexis Petridis joins Tunng and Tinariwen in rehearsalIt is, says Tinariwen vocalist and guitarist Eyadou Ag Leche, "a beautiful adventure". But as with a lot of adventures, the collaboration between the fabled Touraeg desert blues collective and Tunng, Britain's foremost exponents of folktronica, has an inauspicious beginning. We are in a studio in an insalubrious part of Hackney. It is early e...

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