🎸🌵🔥🎶🌍 Over the years, and now decades, Tinariwen (the desert) has definitively become a pillar, a benchmark of this Tuareg blues rock that they have been presenting on stages around the world since 1982. A committed band, militant in the Tuareg rebellion, they finally laid down their arms to keep their guitars when they left exile and returned to Mali. International recognition came in 2001, with the release of The Radio Tisdas Sessions. Since then, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and his colleagues have travelled the world, and have even been nominated for three Grammy Awards. Elwan, the Elephants, is their penultimate album to date, released in 2017. A half double LP limited to three sides, it denounces the militias and companies that hurt the desert’s fragile natural and human ecosystems.
Elwan – Tinariwen, 2017
