Fiume Night 12 _ Tinariwen, part1 _ Manhattan, april 2009 from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

A few hours before the show, in front of the Poisson Rouge, the new West Village venue where Tinariwen would perform on that night, a new yorker dressed as a tuareg asked a tuareg dressed as a new yorker an autograph. This world is sometimes a funny chaos.
Tinariwen is one of my favourite bands, by far the most incredible sound to come from Africa in this 21st century - hard to imagine how they have been able to come up with such a unique sound, and many of the most interesting brooklyn bands of the day were in the room to try to understand. In the end everybody was dancing and it was just perfect.
The first time i have seen Tinariwen play was at 3am, in the middle of the desert in Mali, at the Festival au Desert, 2 hours away from Timbuktu, and it was an incredible experience. Even when they were not playing live, their music was played in each city we visited, always this same melody catching our ears... - Vincent Moon (full post)

Fiume Night 12 _ Tinariwen, part3 _ Manhattan, april 2009 from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.