#@tinariwen

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

very early photo of Tinariwen

[patrickelvinart]

Tinariwen - Tinwaywen

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

I have a big soft spot in my heart for North African music. The energy and the simplicity are cogent reminders to all artist.

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[deadassdiaspore]

Eyadou Ag Leche of Tinariwen, Coachella Music Festival, 2009.

[teachablr-moment]

Who else listens to nonstop Splatoon music when they're working on a project?

I need active, upbeat music with vocals that I can't understand. The vocals drown out the world around me, but if I can even try to comprehend what's being said then I lose my focus. Squid music like this is perfect.

I used to listen to Terakraft and Tinariwen, but the school I worked at last year blocked Spotify and I couldn't find good playlists of their music on YouTube, so I had to switch and now I'm... hooked.

[the-railroad-earth]

Tinariwen ~

[dreamlogic]

look me in the eyes and tell me that saharan blues doesn't fuck harder than any other genre of music

[thebowerypresents]

Tinariwen – Brooklyn Steel - July 26, 2024

Tinariwen, the acclaimed group of Saharan refugee musicians, filled a rapt Brooklyn Steel with their guitar- and rock-fueled desert blues and the Nashville-meets-North-Africa sounds featured on their ninth long-player, Amatssou, on Friday night. 

Photos courtesy of Hillary Safadi | @hillasafadi

[rule-tarlaevski]

[coolranchdavidian]

I Found Out I Have the Same Taste in Music as THE GHOUL and Now I Can't Breathe

I found this article discussing music with Walton Goggins. Pres Hall Jazz Band and Tinariwen are two of my favorite bands EVER, and now I'm suddenly full-tilt delulu thinking I could pull him with a really killer mix tape.

Time to lean into the brain rot and make a fantasy Spotify playlist I guess.

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin 💙🎸🐪 💙

Tinariwen (+IO:I) 🎶 Ténéré Tàqqàl (what has become of the Ténéré)

(Elwan)

[katiajewelbox]

Wonderful mix of West African music! As heard on my live stream on August 22nd.

[nimblermortal]

The ongoing rap discourse is really funny to me because like. Music is not a universal language. That's a stupid cliché. People like stuff that sounds kinda like stuff they've heard before because their brains already know how to process it. British people were super racist about it during the whole empire gambit. Now things spread more easily and people listen to a lot more variety of stuff than they used to, but there are still variables by language, region, platform, and, yes, class and race.

So you want to earn discourse points by listening to rap. Cool! Good, even! Expand your horizons! Start with some simple things. But also, you're making the assumption that all black or even non-white music is Black American music, maybe you'd like music from Saharan cell phones, or kalimba, or goto, or...

Maybe you want to earn discourse points by telling other people to listen to rap, and that they're bad people for not doing so. O-kay... but you're also losing discourse points by not considering neurodivergence, because the mental barrier to trying a new music can be significantly higher or even physically painful depending on your divergence.

You can't win the discourse war, guys. And you usually have more luck getting people to try things by being enthusiastic and providing links.

[aioleis]

Tinariwen: a band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Listen on Spotify >