Tinariwen Aman Iman: Water Is Life (2xLP)

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• Tinariwen is a critically acclaimed Tuareg group from the Sahara who play a guitar-driven branch of Malian music known as “Tishoumaren”, a percussive, rock-oriented desert blues that often addresses social and political issues. The GRAMMY Award-winning collective continues to be a highly acclaimed international act, performing at major festivals such as WOMAD, Glastonbury and Coachella.

  Formed in 1979 by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, a Malian refugee, the group came together in the early 1980s in Colonel Gaddafi’s Libyan rebel camps when each of the musicians had been forced into involuntary military service by their nomadic lifestyles. Surrounded by a displaced nation of like-minded people, Tinariwen forged a new style of music by trading in their traditional lutes and shepherd’s flutes for ele