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Various other terms are used to describe it [1] including desert rock, Saharan rock, [3] Takamba, [2] Mali blues, [4] Tuareg rock [5] or simply "guitar music". [6] The style has been pioneered by Tuareg musicians in the Sahara region, particularly in Mali , Niger , Libya , Algeria , Burkina Faso and others; with it also being developed by ...
The band Imarhan is led by Sadam Iyad Moussa Ben Abderamane, who has collaborated with Tinariwen and is the nephew of bassist Eyadu ag Leche. [66] Kel Assouf [ 66 ] and Tamikrest [ 76 ] have gained notice as younger Tuareg rock bands that cite Tinariwen as a fundamental influence.
Tuareg is known as Tamasheq by western Tuareg in Mali, as Tamahaq among Algerian and Libyan Tuareg, and as Tamajeq in the Azawagh and Aïr regions of Niger. French missionary Charles de Foucauld compiled perhaps the earliest dictionary of the Tuareg language. [108] The Tuaregs compose a great deal of poetry, often elegiac, epigrammatic, and ...
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Tartit (meaning "union") are a band from the Tombouctou Region of Mali.The group consists of five women and four men, all of whom are Tamasheq-speaking Tuareg. [1] They formed in 1992 in a refugee camp in Mauritania. [2]
An iconic band of Saharan rock, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, around Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine. Inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people, the group quickly made ...
Emmaar is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014. [5] Emmaar is a Tuareg word meaning "the heat on the breeze". [6] It is their first full album not to be recorded in northern Africa.
Tuareg people at the 2012 festival. The first festival took place in Tin Essako in January 2001, an initiative created by Manny Ansar, manager of Tuareg band Tinariwen, who played at the festival, [1] along with the band Lo'Jo, who co-organised the festival. [2] Around 500 to 600 people attended that first festival. [3]