Tinariwen
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TINARIWEN'S OUTSTANDING FOURTH ALBUM IMIDIWAN: COMPANIONS
Tinariwen continues to charm world music and rock fans alike with their latest album, Imidiwan: Companions. The album has received accolades across the board, with 4 Star reviews in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Independent and The Scotsman, as well The Eye Weekly, Metro Canada and Alternative Media. Recorded in their native Tessalit, and produced by Jean-Paul Romann, Imidiwan: Companions reveals "more depth, more emotion, many more peaks and valleys than anything they've previously released" (Huffington Post). Tinariwen will tour North America in February and March 2010, with dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver, among others.
"Imidiwan is classic Tinariwen%u2014punishing grooves, buzzing, snaking guitars, handclaps, and lived-in voices." - PopMatters
"alternatively fiery and poignant...Imidiwan is its own force of nature." - World Music Central
TINARIWEN ON CNN'S INSIDE AFRICA WITH LIVE FOOTAGE
CNN's "Inside Africa" features Tinariwen here with a short biography and footage from the Le Poisson Rouge show on April 24 in New York.
Coachella Day 2: Tinariwen's Sunset Convergence is the Talk of the Festival
Sunday, Apr. 19 2009 @ 11:56AM
By Randall Roberts in coachella
"the band got onto the stage and stepped on the Universal Treadmill of Groove, one that propels booties and brains regardless of language, religion, age or gender. Live, the band is inexplicably great...Maybe it's the rhythms, which don't abide by the western four/four time signature and beat in complicated and pleasing ways. Maybe it's the tones...
Or Tinariwen's awesome hype man, who stood stage right and did some sort of beautiful ghost dance and harmonized along...
Testimonials: Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, onstage during its inaugural Coachella performance, said, "I hope you had a chance to check out Tinariwen." Ian MacKaye founder of Dischord Records, Fugazi, Minor Threat and the Evens, was watching with Henry Rollins and Shepard Fairey. After the show, while Rollins held MacKaye's newborn, Carmine, MacKaye told me the Tinariwen gig was his favorite set of the festival. Ditto. " - (full review)
EAST BAY EXPRESS
"When the six musicians took a bow together and the house lights came on, it was hard not to feel we'd witnessed something special. Tinariwen is at the very least among the finest African groups in the world today -- if not at the very top." (4/16 San Francisco Jazz Fest)
stereogum
"The band's Tishoumaren African gypsy blues drew an impressive crowd, continuing an extended crest for the band on the back of 2007's excellent Aman Iman LP. Their brand of modal melodies...acoustic and electric instruments, and hand drums were a perfect fit for the desert heat." (4/18 Coachella)
"Whether by a master stroke of scheduling or happy accident, the juxtaposition of Afro-Arabic pop group Tinariwen in the Gobi Tent and Tucson-based spaghetti-western rock group Calexico on the Outdoor Theatre stage was one of those connective cultural moments that make...Coachella worth every wearying minute in the wilting desert heat." (4/18 Coachella)
TINARIWEN ON U.S. TOUR FEATURING A STOP AT COACHELLA
Tinariwen tour the U.S. in April 2009 with concerts in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, among others. The tour also features the group's first major U.S. festival date on April 18 at Coachella. Fans outside of the tour cities can experience their live show in the new concert dvd Live in London. In other news, Tinariwen are currently on tour in the UK with folk/electronica group Tunng, and will be featured in the Al Jazeera documentary Music of Resistance. Their widely acclaimed 2007 album Aman Iman has also been reissued on vinyl.
"[If] Tinariwen are the world%u2019s favorite African band, this will secure their spot at the top." - Lucid Culture ("Live in London")
COLDPLAY NAMES TINARIWEN AS AN INFLUENCE ON UPCOMING NEW ALBUM VIVA LA VIDA
Actualité Rock'n'France : Coldplay, Viva la Vida, nouvel album le 16 juin 2008
Coldplay, Viva la Vida, nouvel album le 16 juin 2008
"...Tant de musique étonnante nous a inspirés pour ce disque. On a écouté Rammstein et Tinariwen, l'un après l'autre, et la partie au milieu de '42' en a naturellement découlé. Pour une autre chanson, on a écouté Marvin Gaye et Radiohead. Ou Jay-Z et le Golden Gate Trio. Ou My Bloody Valentine et Gershwin. Ou Delakota et Blonde Redhead. Il n'y avait pas de limites." (full article in French)
"...So much amazing music inspired us on this album. We listened to Rammstein and Tinariwen, one after the other, and the middle part of the song '42' flowed naturally from that. For another song we listened to Marvin Gaye and Radiohead. Or Jay-Z and the Golden Gate Trio. Or My Bloody Valentine and Gershwin. Or Delakota and Blonde Redhead. There were no limits." - Coldplay's Chris Martin
TINARIWEN VOTED BEST AFRICAN BAND IN ROLLING STONES' BEST OF ROCK
ROLLING STONES' BEST OF ROCK: BEST AFRICAN BAND
Tinariwen
It took Ibrahim more than a decade to get a proper acoustic guitar in his poverty-stricken part of Africa. When he did, he formed Tinariwen, who have become famous for a fluid, riff-heavy style of desert rock that carries the torch for African bluesmen like Ali Farka Touré and speaks to the struggles of Ibrahim's long-exiled Tuareg tribesmen. (A settlement with the Malian government allowed the Tuareg tribes to return home in 1991.) "We've listened to lots of stuff -- Arabic music, Rabah Driassa, Led Zeppelin," Ibrahim says. "Our music mixes all that together, like a desert stew."
The band will tour Europe this summer, and has attracted fans like Bono and Robert Plant. "I'm singing about my love for the desert," Ibrahim says. "I'm singing about our desire for peace and prosperity. That's it, really." CHRISTIAN HOARD
TINARIWEN TOURS UK WITH JUSTIN ADAMS AND JULDEH CAMARA
This May, Tinariwen will headline a UK tour with Aman Iman and Radio Tisdas Sessions producer Justin Adams, and collaborator and Gambian Griot Juldeh Camara. Adams' and Camara's new release Soul Science is already a success in Europe and is a nominee for in the Culture Crossing category of the BBC World Music Awards. The album will be available in the U.S. in May on World Village. See the tour dates below for the UK tour.
TINARIWEN'S AMAN IMAN IN ALARM MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2007 LIST, & MANY OTHERS
Uncut
Rolling Stone
KCRW's Tom Schnabel
NPR's Banning Eyre
Pitchfork
Observer Music Monthly
Mojo
Word Magazine
Australian Music Guide
The Chicago Tribune
BIO
The group was founded by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Hassan Ag Touhami and Inteyeden Ag Ableline in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, at the end of the 1970s. It was a period of great suffering in the desert, due to the catastrophic droughts of the early 1970s, which had decimated the animal herds and almost destroyed the Touareg's ancient nomadic way of life. Tinariwen began to write songs describing the pain of exile, the longing for lost homes and families, the struggle for political and cultural freedom, and the rigours of every day life in the desert. Their music became the soundtrack for a whole generation of exiled Touareg youth, living a hand-to-mouth existence in exile in Algeria and Libya.
It was not only the subject matter but the sound that was radically different. Ibrahim transposed the traditional melodies of the Touareg on the electric guitar, mixing them with blues, rock, pop, berber and arabic influences. Tinariwen created a modern desert rock sound, whose harsh simplicity was well suited to the realities of their situation.
Lured into rebel training camps in Libya by Colonel Gadaffi in the early 1980s, Tinariwen became the official mouthpiece of the Touareg rebellion, and their songs carried the message of awareness and resistance to the far corners of the desert. In 1990 all the founding members of the group took part in the Touareg rebellions in northern Mali and Niger.
After the end of the rebellion, Tinariwen emerged as a desert legend. They joined up with the French group Lo'Jo to organise the first Festival in the Desert in 2001. That was the year that they also first starting touring in Europe. Now with three successful albums released, including the latest 'Aman Iman', numerous tours of Europe, USA and the Fear East, appearances at the most prestitigious festivals and a BBC Award for World Music, Tinariwen have emerged as one of the most exciting and successful bands from Africa in recent times.
Tinariwen are the ambassadors of one of the oldest and proudest people on earth. They play their music to teach us about the beauty of their desert home, the strength and dignity of the nomad and his way of life, and the problems of poverty, oppression and lack of development which continue to hamper their progress.
"The desert is my home. I've never been attracted by the idea of emigrating to Paris or Los Angeles. It's in the desert that I feel that I belong, You have to live simply in the desert. It's the only way. Simplicity is freedom."
IBRAHIM AG ALHABIB
VIDEOS
NEW! Tinariwen at Le Poisson Rouge by Vincent Moon
NEW! Tinariwen at Coachella 2009
IODACast Video: San Francisco
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Le Poisson Rouge photos on Brooklyn Vegan Apr 27, 2009
Tinariwen & Hassan Hakmoun @ Le Poisson Rouge - pics
photos by Tim Griffin
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Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow - Tickets going fast Apr 23, 2009
L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly & more rave about Tinariwen live! Apr 20, 2009
Coachella Day 2: Tinariwen's Sunset Convergence is the Talk of the Festival
Sunday, Apr. 19 2009 @ 11:56AM
By Randall Roberts in coachella
"the band got onto the stage and stepped on the Universal Treadmill of Groove, one that propels booties and …
Tinariwen in L.A. Times & S.F. Music Examiner Apr 14, 2009
Pop & Hiss
The L.A. Times music blog
Coachella preview: Tinariwen
11:26 AM PT, Apr 13 2009
Pop & Hiss will be covering the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., from April 17 to 19. There are more than 120 acts on the bill, and in …
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Discography - see all 5
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Imidiwan: Companions
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Aman Iman
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Amassakoul
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Festival In The Desert
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Radio Tisdas Sessions
Comments - see all 5
hello !!!!!!! Dinah Dinamyte
posted Mar 14, 2008
Superbe.
posted Nov 29, 2007
You guys were awsome last night. Thanks for opening my eyes and ears.
posted Nov 5, 2007
thanks for request..
posted Oct 31, 2007
Rodrigo says:
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posted Oct 19, 2008