Tinariwen
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Tinariwen ( Tamaschek ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ 'desert', or 'empty place' - a reference to the barren habitat offered by the Sahara) is a band whose musicians come from the Tuareg people . Coming from the traditional music of the Tuareg, they enrich it with elements of western rock and pop music and use electric guitars and electric bass in addition to traditional instruments. The lyrics are sung in Tamaschek and in French . When performing, the musicians wear the traditional clothing of the Tuareg, sometimes also the chèche , which, in contrast to the turban, covers the head and face (except for the eyes).
history
The members of the music group belong to the generation of Tuareg who fled the Sahel to the cities north of the Sahara from the 1960s onwards because they had lost their livelihoods due to long droughts. These urban Tuaregs in forced exile are called ishumar .
The band was founded in 1982 by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Touhami Ag Alhassane, Abdallah Ag Housseyni, Mohammed Ag Itlal (called "Japonais") and Kheddou in Tamanrasset in Algeria , where they initially played at weddings, christenings and other celebrations. The musicians later spent several years in a Libyan military camp where Tuareg were trained to be soldiers. Some of them were actively involved in struggles against the oppression of their people and only devoted themselves entirely to music in 1994 after an uprising in Niger and Mali had ended . Their political commitment is also reflected in the texts. For many years the band sold their music on music cassettes and became known regionally.
In 2000 they recorded their first CD, The Radio Tisdas Sessions . In 2001 they became known to a western audience through their appearance at the internationally acclaimed Festival au Désert in Mali. They got access to western world music circles , toured extensively in Europe and the USA, performing at the Festival international de musique universitaire in Belfort , the Glastonbury Festival and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, and got to a certain extent also attention in the independent scene. A joint concert with Carlos Santana at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2006 contributed to their fame . In 2007 and 2009 the albums Aman Iman and Imidiwan followed .
In 2011 her album Tassili was released , on which Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe ( TV on the Radio ), Nels Cline ( Wilco ) and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band participate as guest musicians . Due to the uncertain situation in northern Mali, the recordings could not take place in Tessalit as they used to be , but were moved to a tent camp in the desert in southern Algeria. Electrically amplified instruments were not used.
style
In addition to the music from their culture, the band was influenced by western music by Led Zeppelin , Johnny Cash and Carlos Santana , whom they got to know through the distribution of copied tapes and joint live performances.
They are considered to be the first Tuareg band to use electric guitars. The musical style in which they adopted the melodies traditionally played on the plucked tahardent and the stringed imzad is called al-guitara . The guitar style emerged as political revolutionary music after the independence of the African states in the 1960s among the generation of young Tuaregs called ishumar ("the unemployed", singular ashamor ) who had moved from the desert regions to North African cities in search of work. The new lifestyle of wage labor in the cities instead of nomadic subsistence farming became known as teshumara . In addition to three electric guitars and an electric bass , Tinariwen use a beaker drum djembé and clapping hands as rhythm instruments .
Band members
Band members include band founder Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, changing musicians such as Fadlan Rachid, Tachfine Amnay, Patricia Bassen, Tahocit O'Baya and Nabil Amarouche.
Touhami Ag Alhassane (2011)
Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni (2011)
Eyadou Ag Leche (2011)
Said Ag Ayad (2011)
Works
- 2002: The Radio Tisdas Sessions
- 2004: Amassakoul
- 2007: Aman Iman (water is life)
- 2008: Tinariwen Live in London (DVD)
- 2009: Imidiwan: Companions
- 2011: Tassili ( V2 Records )
- 2014: Emmaar
- 2015: Live in Paris 2014
- 2017: Elwan
- 2019: Amadjar
Awards
- 2008: International Peace Music Prize of the Praetorius Music Prize
- 2012: Best World Music Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards
Web links
- Official website of the band (English)
- Tinariwen at Universal (France) (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart discography Switzerland
- ↑ See Hans Ritter: Dictionary for the language and culture of the Twareg. Volume I: Twareg - French - German . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009. p. 847.
- ↑ Tinariwen: Biography ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Die Zeit : 400 kilograms of sound technology in the desert , September 5, 2011
- ^ The Ghetto-Blaster Grapevine of the Desert and Tinariwen's Rebel Rock Diplomacy. rockpaperscissors; Peter Pannke: Tuareg Festival in Mali. Blue knights of world music. Spiegel online, January 6, 2011
- ↑ Eric Schmidt: Ishumar: The Guitar and the Revolution of Tuareg Culture. Spring 2009, p. 38
