This is music of the griots and of the highest quality. Tinariwen's new album 'Emmaar' is released on February 11th.
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While the Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in 2001. (WIKI)
It seems since their travels in 2001 they have absorbed some Western influence, namely how to record this wonderful stuff and it's moved World Music into a new psyche blues trip entirely.
Their homeland of Northern Mali is now under militant rule where they have in their infinite wisdom banned music completely so this nomadic collective of Tuareg singers, songwriters, and musicians are, like their last 10 years, seeing a lot more of the rest of the world and probably will do for some for some time to come. The rest of the world is undoubtedly welcoming their hypnotic and compelling sounds.
So good is this here's two superb videos of tracks from 'Emmaar'.
Pre-order on iTunes: here - or at the Anti Store: here
