Tinariwen Tickets Aug 07 2010 7:00 pm iCal

Tinariwen are the kings and queens of ‘Assouf’ or guitar poetry from the Sahara Desert.   Since the first Festival in the Desert in 2001, which they helped to organise, the band have become one of the most successful and exciting musical exports ever to emerge from west Africa.  Their rolling yearning grooves and uncompromising messages of simplicity and freedom, distilled over twenty years of struggle, rebellion and exile, have earned them two BBC World Music Award nominations, countless accolades and citations, the attention of high-profile fans such as Robert Plant, Santana, Edge and Thom Yorke, and the enduring respect of their own people. Their album‘Aman Iman’ made the top 10 albums of 2007 in the Observer Music Magazine, Songlines, the Independent, Word Magazine, HMV Choice , fRoots amongst many others.  Their latest album 'Imidiwan: Companions' was awarded album of 2009 for UNCUT magazine, MOJO’s number 5 album of the year, and many many more.

“Sensational” – Andy Kershaw. BBC Radio.

“…a mesmeric evocation of the mood of yearning inculcated through years of exile, all nourished by the vast emptiness of the desert”  - The Independent.

“…one of the most extraordinary and unlikely musical success stories of the last few years.”      - The Daily Telegraph

Buy 'Imidiwan' CD at hmv

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