#desertblues — Public Fediverse posts
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Tinariwen – Amadjar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-amadjar/
From album “Amadjar” in 2019, listen to this first track featuring Micah Nelson, best known as Neil Young’s guitarist. Noura Mint Seymali is also a guest on 3 other tracks.
Amadjar is the eighth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2019. The album’s title means “the foreign traveler” in the Tamashek language. […]
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Tinariwen – Amadjar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-amadjar/
From album “Amadjar” in 2019, listen to this first track featuring Micah Nelson, best known as Neil Young’s guitarist. Noura Mint Seymali is also a guest on 3 other tracks.
Amadjar is the eighth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2019. The album’s title means “the foreign traveler” in the Tamashek language. […]
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Amanar De Kidal - Aljahalat
"The classic desert blues sounds are all there: the evocative Tamasheq vocals delivered, like the classic US soul sounds, with an innate depth and resonance that is only born from genuine hardship"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/amanar-de-kidal-aljahalat-desert-bluesFind them in the Slow World Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist#desertblues #funk #music #independent #alternative #artist #mali
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Amanar De Kidal - Aljahalat
"The classic desert blues sounds are all there: the evocative Tamasheq vocals delivered, like the classic US soul sounds, with an innate depth and resonance that is only born from genuine hardship"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/amanar-de-kidal-aljahalat-desert-bluesFind them in the Slow World Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist#desertblues #funk #music #independent #alternative #artist #mali
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Songhoy Blues – Worry
https://amf.didiermary.fr/optimisme-heritage-songhoy-blues-worry/
Songhoy Blues switched to acoustic instruments and invited many friends for their album “Héritage,” released in January 2025. A return to their roots, a chance to recharge. This follows “Optimisme” in 2020, with the single “Worry.”
Don’t worry
You’re gonna be happy
Keep working today
That smile will come one day[…]
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Songhoy Blues – Worry
https://amf.didiermary.fr/optimisme-heritage-songhoy-blues-worry/
Songhoy Blues switched to acoustic instruments and invited many friends for their album “Héritage,” released in January 2025. A return to their roots, a chance to recharge. This follows “Optimisme” in 2020, with the single “Worry.”
Don’t worry
You’re gonna be happy
Keep working today
That smile will come one day[…]
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Mdou Moctar – Tala Tannam
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-chismiten-tala-tannam/
2 videos released for the album “Afrique Victime” by Mdou Moctar in 2021.
If people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music in this album on acoustic guitars.
With “Afrique Victime” the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and […]
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Mdou Moctar – Tala Tannam
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-chismiten-tala-tannam/
2 videos released for the album “Afrique Victime” by Mdou Moctar in 2021.
If people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music in this album on acoustic guitars.
With “Afrique Victime” the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and […]
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Tinariwen – Emmaar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-emmaar/
Emmaar (“the heat on the breeze”) is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014 and their first full album not recorded in Africa.
After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of […]
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Tinariwen – Emmaar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-emmaar/
Emmaar (“the heat on the breeze”) is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014 and their first full album not recorded in Africa.
After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of […]
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Tamikrest – Assikel
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/
The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.
Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
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Tamikrest – Assikel
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/
The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.
Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ag Alhabib (Tinariwen) -
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Ali Farka Toure – Savane
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-farka-toure-savane/
More info on the 20th anniversary edition of this album.
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Ali Farka Toure – Savane
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-farka-toure-savane/
More info on the 20th anniversary edition of this album.
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Tinariwen – Hoggar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-hoggar/
Released in March 2026, “Hoggar” is Tinariwen’s tenth studio album.
“Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community.”
Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between [...]
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Tinariwen – Hoggar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-hoggar/
Released in March 2026, “Hoggar” is Tinariwen’s tenth studio album.
“Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community.”
Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between [...]
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🎵 Tinariwen - Chatma▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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En Occident, les gens ne connaissent pas trop notre monde. Nous avons toujours été conscients de notre rôle de passeurs : faire connaître, transmettre et raconter l’histoire ainsi que la culture touarègue fait partie intégrante de notre mission.
#Tinariwen #Touareg #DesertBlues #Afrique #Sahara #Ishumar #Music #Tv #Socialmedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkeGLHxuTI&list=RDEMN1G6VtsTHAxc-07SL6iaJw&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gy70XjgKx4&list=RDEMN1G6VtsTHAxc-07SL6iaJw&index=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbr0W8_X0k&list=PLf_7x1iIaCjM65L-A8rXsL7c-hnw5UhIT&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDWrV-p5QgQ&list=PLf_7x1iIaCjM65L-A8rXsL7c-hnw5UhIT&index=9
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En Occident, les gens ne connaissent pas trop notre monde. Nous avons toujours été conscients de notre rôle de passeurs : faire connaître, transmettre et raconter l’histoire ainsi que la culture touarègue fait partie intégrante de notre mission.
#Tinariwen #Touareg #DesertBlues #Afrique #Sahara #Ishumar #Music #Tv #Socialmedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkeGLHxuTI&list=RDEMN1G6VtsTHAxc-07SL6iaJw&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gy70XjgKx4&list=RDEMN1G6VtsTHAxc-07SL6iaJw&index=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbr0W8_X0k&list=PLf_7x1iIaCjM65L-A8rXsL7c-hnw5UhIT&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDWrV-p5QgQ&list=PLf_7x1iIaCjM65L-A8rXsL7c-hnw5UhIT&index=9
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Bombino – Deran Deran Alkeir
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-deran-deran-alkeir/
Bombino (Omara “Bombino” Moctar) is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. His music frequently addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns and is sung in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language.
Deran is Bombino’s follow up record to 2016’s Azel. The album was recorded in Casablanca, Morocco and released in 2018. “It was almost [...]
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Bombino – Deran Deran Alkeir
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-deran-deran-alkeir/
Bombino (Omara “Bombino” Moctar) is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. His music frequently addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns and is sung in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language.
Deran is Bombino’s follow up record to 2016’s Azel. The album was recorded in Casablanca, Morocco and released in 2018. “It was almost [...]
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Tinariwen (and Guests) – Nannuflay
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-guests-nannuflay/
Nannuflay (“Fulfilled”) from Tinariwen‘s album Elwan in 2017. With American rockers Kurt Vile and Mark Lanegan as guests.
In the Sahara Desert, an old Tuareg man comes back to the camp where he grew up for a party. He remembers the joys and the torments of the nomadic life he lived with a friend who […]
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Tinariwen (and Guests) – Nannuflay
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-guests-nannuflay/
Nannuflay (“Fulfilled”) from Tinariwen‘s album Elwan in 2017. With American rockers Kurt Vile and Mark Lanegan as guests.
In the Sahara Desert, an old Tuareg man comes back to the camp where he grew up for a party. He remembers the joys and the torments of the nomadic life he lived with a friend who […]
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Ishumar – Toumast
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toumast-2007/
Ishumar is the first album by band Toumast, released in October 2006.
Moussa Ag Keyna, a former Tuareg fighter who took refuge in France, formed the group Toumast in the spirit of Tinariwen in the mid-1990s. He was joined by the singer Aminatou Goumar.Lead singer Moussa Ag Keyna who, together with Aminatou [Goumar] and French […]
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Ishumar – Toumast
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toumast-2007/
Ishumar is the first album by band Toumast, released in October 2006.
Moussa Ag Keyna, a former Tuareg fighter who took refuge in France, formed the group Toumast in the spirit of Tinariwen in the mid-1990s. He was joined by the singer Aminatou Goumar.Lead singer Moussa Ag Keyna who, together with Aminatou [Goumar] and French […]
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"another genre-ambiguous gem that I'm filing under perky, pan-African powered alt-pop"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/anya-anastasia-burrow-alt-popFind Anastasia in the Slow Alt-Pop Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-pop-playlist#altpop #desertblues #music #independent #alternative #artist #adelaide
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"another genre-ambiguous gem that I'm filing under perky, pan-African powered alt-pop"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/anya-anastasia-burrow-alt-popFind Anastasia in the Slow Alt-Pop Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-pop-playlist#altpop #desertblues #music #independent #alternative #artist #adelaide
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This morning's #workout #music is some masterful #guitar from two different eras...but the same underlying traditions:
First up is Ahmed Ag Kaedy, a musician from the nomadic Kel Tamasheq people, who performs with the Berlin groove ensemble Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers
https://youtu.be/gUCO-7b4Hg4Followed up by the great Grant Green Trio
https://youtu.be/OdFYaK_nUCs#Jazz #DesertBlues #JazzFusion #KosmischeMusik #AcidJazz #BambooStaff #KettleBells #MobilityTraining
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This morning's #workout #music is some masterful #guitar from two different eras...but the same underlying traditions:
First up is Ahmed Ag Kaedy, a musician from the nomadic Kel Tamasheq people, who performs with the Berlin groove ensemble Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers
https://youtu.be/gUCO-7b4Hg4Followed up by the great Grant Green Trio
https://youtu.be/OdFYaK_nUCs#Jazz #DesertBlues #JazzFusion #KosmischeMusik #AcidJazz #BambooStaff #KettleBells #MobilityTraining
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📻 Vortex Night 🌌 (Trip hop pulse)
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🎵 Tinariwen; Kyp Malone; Babatunde Adebimpe - Tenere Taqqim Tossam▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
https://lesonduvortex.net💬 Join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/d82hJZBeDE#VortexWave #Tinariwen #DesertBlues #ExperimentalRock #2000s
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Recensioni ✍️ 👤 Tinariwen 📈 51 👥 505.6K 🔗 Hoggar 7️⃣.5️⃣ 📅 13-3-2026 🏠 2026 (Wedge) #️⃣ Desertblues L'esilio senza fine del gruppo Tuareg a cura di Gianfranco Marmoro #Ondarock #MusicianSky #MusicSky #Music
Hoggar - Album by Tinariwen | ... -
Recensioni ✍️ 👤 Tinariwen 📈 51 👥 505.6K 🔗 Hoggar 7️⃣.5️⃣ 📅 13-3-2026 🏠 2026 (Wedge) #️⃣ Desertblues L'esilio senza fine del gruppo Tuareg a cura di Gianfranco Marmoro #Ondarock #MusicianSky #MusicSky #Music
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Tinariwen – Erghad Afewo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snu2cGohYC4From the newly released album Hoggar
https://tinariwen.bandcamp.com/album/hoggar"Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community."
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Tinariwen – Erghad Afewo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snu2cGohYC4From the newly released album Hoggar
https://tinariwen.bandcamp.com/album/hoggar"Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community."
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Tamikrest – Awnafin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-awnafin/
An iconic Saharan Rock band, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen, and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people. It’s more Desert Rock, than Blues… […]
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Tamikrest – Awnafin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-awnafin/
An iconic Saharan Rock band, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen, and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people. It’s more Desert Rock, than Blues… […]
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Orchestre National Mauritanien Ahl Nana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestre-national-mauritanien-ahl-nana/
Ahl Nana, l’Orchestre National Mauritanien, in lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara.
This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that is known in the West as ‘Desert Blues’ or ‘Desert Rock’. Ahl Nana changed the folk music of the […]
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Orchestre National Mauritanien Ahl Nana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestre-national-mauritanien-ahl-nana/
Ahl Nana, l’Orchestre National Mauritanien, in lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara.
This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that is known in the West as ‘Desert Blues’ or ‘Desert Rock’. Ahl Nana changed the folk music of the […]
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Anansy Cissé – Foussa Foussa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-foussa-foussa/
Four years in the making, Anoura (The Light) sees the return of Anansy Cissé in 2021. Drawing inspiration from the tumultuous upheaval in his homeland, Anansy offers a positive message in these songs of love, respect and hope for better times ahead.
Remarkably Anansy Cissé began working on this, his […]
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Anansy Cissé – Foussa Foussa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-foussa-foussa/
Four years in the making, Anoura (The Light) sees the return of Anansy Cissé in 2021. Drawing inspiration from the tumultuous upheaval in his homeland, Anansy offers a positive message in these songs of love, respect and hope for better times ahead.
Remarkably Anansy Cissé began working on this, his […]
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Anansy Cissé – Aïgouna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-mali-desert-blues/
Anansy Cissé re-works the West African Desert Blues genre with a new, agitated attitude and souped-up guitar distortions.
Featuring the soku fiddle playing of Zoumana Tereta and accompanied by n’goni, bass and calabash, Cissé’s sound harnesses musical traditions and spits it out anew, taking us into “Mali Overdrive” (2014).
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Bombino – Nomad (EPK)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/first-listen-bombino-nomad/
“Nomad”, released by Omara “Bombino” Moctar in 2013, follows his first recorded album “Agadez” in 2011.
Omara “Bombino” Moctar, a young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter, was raised during an era of armed struggles for independence and violent suppression by government forces. His electrifying jams capture the spirit of resistance and rebellion [...]
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Super11 – raw Desert Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/
If you like pure raw desert blues, this video is for you, as it’s a perfect origin for so many contemporary artists from the Sahel region.
“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: […]
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Tinariwen, Sulafa Elyas - Sagherat Assani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2q8g8U5alsAnnouncing the upcoming release of their tenth studio album, Hoggar.
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Al Bilali Soudan – Djaba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/al-bilali-soudan-djaba/
Al Bilali Soudan are griots from the Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region of Mali. This is a family orchestra of fathers and sons, uncles and cousins, led by Abellow Yattara, a master of the tehardent – the Tamasheq word for the three-stringed n’goni.Yattara has been a prominent figure for over 40 years. He played on Ali Farka […]
