Tinariwen
World / Blues / Rock |
NEWS
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
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Rolling Stone
KCRW's Tom Schnabel
NPR's Banning Eyre
Pitchfork
Observer Music Monthly
Mojo
Word Magazine
Australian Music Guide
The Chicago Tribune
Shows - see all 3
Apr 16 |
San Francisco, CA |
TBA |
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Apr 17 |
Santa Cruz, CA |
TBA |
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Apr 18 |
Indio, CA |
TBA |
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
Other Music Instore
- IODACast video: San Francisco
- Aman Iman EPK
- 'Chet Boghassa' Music Video
- Live Performance at Youssou N'Dour's Roll Back Malaria Concert in Dakar, 2005.
- Live Performanace 'Amidinin' at the Live 8 / Africa Calling Concert at the Eden Project, Cornwall, UK in 2005. The performance was introduced by Peter Gabriel.
- Live Performance with Carlos Santana at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 2006.
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"Live In London" on A World of Music 1 week ago
"It has long been acknowledged that an appreciation of the tale behind the emergence of desert blues rebel-rockers Tinariwen adds a piquancy to their already highly appealing music, so a visual package that complements their three excellent albums, which captures the band at their animated best whilst simultaneously filling out their 'back story', is most welcome.
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hello !!!!!!! Dinah Dinamyte
posted Mar 14
Superbe.
posted Nov 29
You guys were awsome last night. Thanks for opening my eyes and ears.
posted Nov 5
thanks for request..
posted Oct 31
Rodrigo says:
Samedi 29 novembre au local du Paquebot à CHADRON (43) : RODRIGO NO COMMENT (photo video theatre performance post apocalyptique experimental). Debut de la soiree a 21h21.
posted Oct 19