Tinariwen

Wed Oct 27 2021 at 07:00 pm

Musical Instrument Museum - MIM | Phoenix

Musical Instrument Museum - MIM
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Tinariwen
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Price: $44.50–$54.50
Tickets at MIM.org
Formed in the southern Sahara, Grammy-winning ensemble Tinariwen has been playing its unique brand of desert blues for over 30 years. The group created a modern desert rock sound, transposing traditional melodies of the Tuareg on the electric guitar and mixing them with blues, rock, pop, Berber, and Arabic influences.
Their latest release, Amadjar, is a nomadic album recorded in a camp to an audience of scorpions and is as close as you can get to Tinariwen. It is also a testament to the idea that things can evolve: bassist Eyadou plays a lot of acoustic guitar; percussionist Said tries his hand at new instruments; Abdallah exhumes songs that he’s never played on stage with Tinariwen. Amadjar means “the unknown visitor” in Tamashek, the one who seeks hospitality and who’s condemned to an inner exile, within a territory or within himself—just like the members of Tinariwen, who feel at home on the journey, around the fire with a few immutable songs.
"Tinariwen’s nomadic guitar mantras encompass the spiritual hypnotism of Tibetan chants, the bare grittiness of Malian blues, and the rebel soul of reggae . . . entirely transfixing."
—Austin Chronicle
"Tuareg rockers Tinariwen have established their unmistakable, mesmerizing desert blues grooves, and their stage presence, shrouded in traditional robes and tagelmust turban-veils."
—Guardian
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tinariwen.com
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Musical Instrument Museum - MIM, 4725 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, United States

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