For two millenniums, the nomadic Tuareg people have wandered the Sahara of North Africa. Tinariwen, a Tuareg blues rock collective, chronicles life in the desert and the plight of those displaced by ...

Early Tinariwen performances at parties, weddings and under-the-star jam sessions often found their way onto tape. Those cassettes, recorded on battery-powered boom boxes, might then travel across the ...

Amatssou, the new album from Tuareg desert blues pioneers Tinariwen, begins with a question. “Why so much silence, all over the world / Only spilt blood / Only brave men killed?,” Abdallah Ag ...

Tinariwen’s new album, titled “Emmaar,” begins with a spacey guitar playing a twanging defiant note. Then come lyrics growled in English instead of Tuareg, and instrumentation that would be at home in ...

How do the premier ambassadors of Saharan soul navigate a dangerous time? With an album that sonically acknowledges a temporary home in the U.S. First Listen: Tinariwen, 'Emmaar' How do you build on ...

Back in the late 1960s and ’70s, when bootleg cassette tapes first began exchanging hands amongst the Tuareg ranks of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the early sounds of Tinariwen were sown across the desert ...

Tinariwen’s members are Tuaregs, an ethnic group from all across the Sahara desert. They’re nomads who lay down musical rather than physical roots, and their music follows a rich Tuareg lyrical ...

Tinariwen are guitar-poets from the southern Sahara desert and icons of freedom and resistance among their own people, the nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara. Their back-story has been described as ...

Tinariwen, an ensemble rock and blues band that hails from the Sahara desert, is coming to Colorado, where it will perform at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. The fest, located at the Planet ...

The Tuareg people of West Africa are descended from nomads who traveled in caravans along the Sahara desert. They've been fighting for an independent homeland for decades and in the '80s, the Tuareg ...

In Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg people of northern Africa, the word emmaar speaks of two sides of the same coin: one nourishing, the other destroying. "Emmaar" means "what you can feel when ...

The Moroccan town of M’hamid el Ghizlane used to be a stopping place for desert caravans. To the south the Sahara stretches for 1,000 miles all the way to Timbuktu. Here the nomads would get their ...