Wow
@Jellopanda I never imagined bopping my head and dancing to music I can't understand but it's powerful and beatiful at the same time. I love the guitar work and the guy on the drum. It's a definite like that I will add to my list, I hope you can download somewhere! And the story behind their beginnings is something of beauty. Wouldn't it be nice if the world would stop all these stupid wars and do the same as these men did? What a beautiful and peaceful world it could be! Just imagine! I had to find more out about this band or group of people, I couldn't believe all the information I found out about them.
one article said:
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You could never make a movie of the Tinariwen story – it’s too dramatic, bloody and fantastical even for Hollywood.
Calling this group of Malian musicians a band would be to sell their heritage mightily short. Tinariwen are a musical dynasty.
They began as a group of nomadic desert tribesmen, rose up against oppression as violent gun-toting revolutionaries, and wound up among world music’s most celebrated success stories, winning a Grammy and attracting celebrity fans ranging from Robert Plant to Radiohead.
The story begins nearly 40 years ago in the refugee camps of Algeria, where exiled Tuareg musicians, lead by founder Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, started performing traditional desert melodies at weddings and festivals on homemade guitars. Never choosing an official name, they were dubbed in the Tamashek language as Kel Tinariwen, which translates as The People of the Deserts. They recorded for free for anyone who offered a blank cassette.
After receiving military training from Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, the musicians moved back to Mali in 1989, where some members took part in the violent uprisings of the Tuareg rebellion. A decade later, the collective’s Saharan-soaked blend of West African desert blues, Berber tribal folk and Western rock was “discovered” by French world music band Lo’Jo."
wow! Robert Plant and Thom Yorke of Radiohead! You have totally impressed with me with your unboundless varieties of music, I think your new name should be Jellopanda Travers of Rolling Stone magazine for opening us members to some awesome great music!
Thanks so much for sharing, it was beautiful but the story behind them is even prettier!

