Tinariwen

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Tinariwen @ Le Poisson Rouge Tinariwen are touring North America in the first quarter of 2010 .

Tuareg musicians Tinariwen beat Kings of Leon and Bob Dylan to the 2009 Uncut Music Award.

A band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region have been crowned the winners of this year's Uncut Music Award for best album.

I am by no means an expert on African music (I'll leave that to the folks running Afropop.org), but I thought it would be fun to share my current playlist with you. So here are some African beats that have been in rotation on my iPod this past week: Sauti Sol, a young Kenyan acoustic band with a soulful sound, are making waves with their debut album Mwanzo. I can't stop playing their second single that just came out, Blue Uniform. Check it out on YouTube or download the whole album from Emusic. Bisso na Bisso is a French/Congolese rap ensemble and an excellent introduction to French/African rap if you haven't heard much before. Check out Bisso na Bisso on YouTube from their first album Racines, great song and fun video. If you like this, check out Ce Soir, the first single from their new album, Africa United. Tinariwen, a group of Tuareg poet/musicians with a famous fan base including Bono, Robert Plant and Santana. Tinariwen released an album this summer called Companions, here's a video clip introducing the album. You can download the album from Emusic. The Very Best is a London based band, led by Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya. Their songs are in Chichewa and can be heard on the recently released debut album Warm Heart of Africa. Check out Chalo and Tengazako, a Malawian take on M.I.A's Paperplanes. Read more... African Tunes on my Playlist originally appeared on About.com Africa Travel on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 10:38:07. Permalink | Comment | Email this

In a fifth-floor flat of a tower block near Pre Lachaise cemetery in Paris, 50-year-old Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, the co-founder of the brilliant African "desert blues" band Tinariwen, is talking about the first time he heard music.

TINARIWEN Imidiwan: Companions **** Independiente

Tinariwen a group of musicians who gained fame as nomads playing music in the southern Sahara took the soulful sounds of Africa to Miami, United States of America. In this interview, guitarist and vocalist Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, talks about the band.