Album Review // Tinariwen - ‘Imidiwan: Companions’

Tinariwen (“empty places”) is a true amalgam of music. Thirty years ago this group of southern Saharan nomads was forced into involuntary servitude by Muammar al-Gaddafi. The band led by frontman Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, plays what the locals call “Tishoumaren” ( “music of the unemployed”) and they favor electric guitars over traditional acoustic instrumentation [...]

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