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TINARIWEN

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Amadjar

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2019 ALBUM

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The best Tinariwen album hasn’t been recorded

yet. Perhaps it never will be. Because the best

Tinariwen music isn’t the music they perform in

front of microphones. It’s the music they play at

night around the fire, back in their own country,

amongst themselves and at their own pace. In

those moments, the music can become like the

fire - free, magical and impossible to stuff into a

box. Their discography - stretching out over the

last 17 years - plus all the tours and the

international recognition have changed nothing:

Tinariwen are still a desert band, only certain

aspects of which the western music industry

can ever hope to capture and present. Tinariwen

existed long before any of their albums were

recorded and they still exist quite distinct from

their discographic dimension. So, the best

Tinariwen album doesn’t exist but it’s still worth

trying to go and find it. 

 Amadjar, the ninth Tinariwen album, is as close

as you can get to Tinariwen. And also, therefore,

to the idea that things can evolve: bassist

Eyadou plays a lot of acoustic guitar;

percussionist Said tries his hand at new

instruments and the violin that appears on

several songs and reminds you of the traditional

imzad is actually played by Warren Ellis. The

violinist in Nick Cave’s band is one of several

western guests on the album. We also hear the

mandolin and charango of Micah Nelson (son of

the country music giant Willie Nelson and Neil

Young’s guitarist) and the guitars of Stephen

O’Malley (Sunn O)))), Cass McCombs and

Rodolphe Burger. The album is mixed by Jack

White’s buddy Joshua Vance Smith. 

 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. 

Tracks –

1. Tenere Maloulat (feat. Warren Ellis)

2. Zawal (feat. Warren Ellis, Noura Mint 

Seymali and Jeiche Ould Chighaly)

3. Amalouna (feat. Noura Mint Seymali 

and Stephen O’Malley)

4. Taqkal Tarha (feat. Micah Nelson)

5. Anina

6. Madjam Mahilkamen

7. Takount (feat. Noura Mint Seymali)

8. Iklam Dglour (feat. Warren Ellis 

and Rodolphe Burger)

9. Kel Tinawen (feat. Cass McCombs)

10. Itous Ohar

11. Mhadjar Yassouf Idjan (feat. Warren Ellis)

12. Wartilla (feat. Warren Ellis and 

Stephen O’Malley)

13. Lalla

CONDITION – MINT / UNPLAYED (SEALED)

Catalogue Number – 5400863012588

Country of Issue – UK

Date - 2019

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