Anti- would like to congratulate celebrated African Touareg band TINARIWEN on their recent Grammy Nomination for their incredible album Elwan in the Best World Music Album category. The group previously won the category in 2012 for their album Tassili.
NPR First Listen is previewing the brand new album from acclaimed Grammy winning Saharan band Tinariwen. The record, entitled Elwan, arrives in stores this February 10th. Listen here: http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/512650724/first-listen-tinariwen-elwan In recent years, the band’s homeland, a Saharan mountain range between north-eastern Mali and southern Algeria, has been transformed into a …
Renowned Saharan band Tinariwen have released a powerful and evocative new album entitled Elwan. A record that Mojo writes, is “one to point to the next time somebody pronounces there are no decent protest songs anymore.” The group has released a video for the track “Sastanàqqàm” which perfectly evokes the …
The Grammy winning Saharan band Tinariwen, described as “desert blues practitioners” by The Guardian, have just premiered a song from their forthcoming album Elwan which arrives on February 10th via Anti-. The track is called “Assawt” and it features everything listeners throughout the world have come love about Tinariwen, virtuosic …