Description
début avril 2022
The 20th Anniversary edition of Tinariwen’s first studio album The Radio Tisdas
Sessions has been remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased bonus
track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. The first vinyl pressing is limited
edition white vinyl – only 3000 copies worldwide and the download card provides
24- bit WAV. The Radio Tisdas Sessions feature songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib,
Kedou Ag Ossad, Mohamed Ag Itlal aka ‘Japonais’ who passed away on February
14th 2021, and Foy Foy.
Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the
Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has
seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries – Mali,
Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar,
a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen’s music – a
blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – speaks directly
to this feeling of longing: a sound that critics have called “desert blues”.
