Artist: Tinariwen Title: Discography Year Of Release: 2002-2017 Label: Wayward Records, Independent Records Ltd., Independiente, V2, Wedge Genre: Electric Blues, African, Acoustic, Psychedelic Rock Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) / WEB / Hi-Res / VINYL Total Time: 10:39:00 Total Size: 5.6 Gb WebSite: Album Preview
The Tinariwen sound is primarily guitar-driven in the style known as assouf among the Tuareg people. The Tinariwen guitar style has its roots in West African music, specifically that from the "great bend" region along the Niger River, between Timbuktu and Gao. The core elements of Tinariwen's music are traditional Tuareg melodies and rhythms including those played on the shepherd's flute, which is primarily a man's instrument; and those played on a one-string fiddle known as an imzad which is played by women. The primary percussion instrument is the tindé drum which is played by women at festive occasions. Another important traditional influence is the lute known as the teherdent, which is played by the griots of the Gao and Timbuktu regions. In the late 1970s, when the founding members of Tinariwen started playing acoustic guitars, they played a traditional repertoire adapted to the western guitar.
Other regional influences include Berber music from northern Algeria, especially radical Kabyle singers like Ait Menguellet and Ferhat; the pop sounds of electrified rai music of Algeria; pop singers from Algeria like Rabah Driassa; pop groups from Morocco like Nass El Ghiwane and Lemchaheb with their lute and mandol riffs; the classical pop of Egypt; and even Bollywood music. Tinariwen was also influenced by traditional Malian musicians, the most famous of which was Ali Farka Toure. In the early years of the collective's history, the members were also fans of bootlegged albums by western acts that had made their way to the Tuareg people, with favorites including albums by Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Rogers and Don Williams.
While the Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in 2001.
Albums: 2002 The Radio Tisdas Sessions CDRip FLAC 2004 Amassakoul CDRip FLAC 2005 Live in Munich [bootleg] FLAC 2006 Aman Iman Water Is Life CDRip FLAC 2009 Imidiwan CDRip FLAC 2011 Tassili (Ltd. Edition) CDRip FLAC 2014 Emmaar (Deluxe Edition) FLAC Hi-Res 2014 Emmaar CDRip FLAC 2014 INSIDE OUTSIDE FLAC Hi-Res 2015 Live In Paris 2014 CDRip FLAC 2015 Live in Paris FLAC VINYL 2017 Elwan CDRip FLAC 2017 Elwan FLAC Hi-Res
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