video 1/2 from Tinariwen - Imidiwan:Companions [DVD]
2009

Terrorist blues for your anarchist cravings from the best band on planet Earth.


The ascent of the Tuareg group from Saharan refugee camps to international stardom is one of popular music's more heartening stories. The standard-bearers of '"desert blues" don't falter on this fourth album, which takes a step back from the sonic clarity of Aman Iman: Water Is Life, in favour of a rootsier sound. The fundamentals are unchanged - the rolling grooves, intricate guitar exchanges, call-and-response vocals - while there's a greater emphasis on the poetic, meditative qualities of desert life, whether on the intense "Tamdjeras Assis" ("Regret Is a Storm") or the graceful "Chabiba", a hymn to youth.
-- The Guardian