WORLD MUSIC SPECIAL: TINARIWEN - DESERT BLUES
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Desert Music
This week we are airing a short profile of the band Tinariwen, and you can also see it on our website. Usually we indicate the country that a band originates from, but Tinariwen are Tuareg (no, that's not just a car), a nomadic people who have been living in the Sahara for millennia. When you are watching these tall, swathed men playing their hypnotic rhythms, it is hard not to be carried off to an imagined, desert landscape. You can get some feeling for this in the live performance featured in the middle of the profile. The musicians have incorporated the electric guitar into their own tradition, creating a genre now called "Desert Blues." Since they came to prominence on the world music stage, there have been several others following suit. Oddly, all of them have names that start with a "t!"
-Michal Shapiro
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OTHER PRESS:
Pitchfork.com, review of Imidiwan: Companions 10/13/09
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New Musical Express (NME), Imidiwan: Companions review 06/15/09
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Time Out, Imidiwan: Companions review 06/15/09
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Rolling Stone Magazine, The Best of Rock 2008-Africa 04/30/08
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NY Press, Water is Life: Tinariwen in Town 11/28/07
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slate.com, Enter Sandmen - Is Tinariwen the Greatest Band on Earth? 05/31/07
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PRI's The World, interview with Tinariwen manager, Andy Morgan 05/01/07
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The Word, Riders on the Storm - Part 1 (1.37MB) 03/01/07
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The Word, Riders on the Storm - Part 2 (1.08 MB) 03/01/07
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Songlines, Desert Storm 03/01/07
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The Independent (London), Veterans of Gaddafi's training camps rock the real 'Kasbah' 02/16/06
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Time Out New York, Sand Storms - Tinariwen's Powerful Desert Blues 07/14/05
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London Financial Times Magazine, Get Up Stand Up 02/12/05
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Global Rhythm Magazine, Six-String Saharans: Tinariwen's Tuareg Rock 11/01/04
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Sing Out, From Guns to Guitars...Becoming the Voice of Touaregs 01/01/05
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The Village Voice, Call Me Sand 11/01/04
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The New York Times, Passions That Were Fired by the Embattled Sahara by John Pareles 10/30/04
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