Tinariwen | 04.16 | San Francisco

By: Jim Welte Tinariwen :: 04.16.09 :: Palace of Fine Arts :: San Francisco, CA Tinariwen There's really nothing quite like the sound of a pack of middle-aged white women ululating. In a powerful display of a band's ability to transport its audience to a far-off land, Tuareg desert blues band Tinariwen took a packed house at The Palace of Fine Arts on a trip to the Sahara region from which it hails, and in return received the long, high-pitched shrills of its homeland. The band's unmi...

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