Tinariwen: Amadjar review – places you at the centre of a nomadic soundworld
The month's best music
50 great tracks for September from Normani, Tinariwen, Miley Cyrus and more
July 2018
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: your songs about deserts
Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Brand New Heavies and Big Country are among the artists making this week’s reader-curated list
March 2017
Tinariwen review – desert blues with soul and prowess
The captivating Tuareg rockers have the audience ululating with joy at their wonderful musicianship
February 2017
Tinariwen: Elwan review – different deserts, same hypnotic groove
(Wedge)
August 2016
Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You If You Cry review – slow, eerie, south-east Asian blues
(Glitterbeat)
June 2016
Meet Kel Assouf and Imarhan, the new wave of Tuareg rock
A new generation of Tuareg bands are refreshing Tinariwen’s Saharan blues for the Facebook generation. Singers Anana Ag Haroun and Sadam Ag Ibrahim talk guitars, exile and education
January 2016
The playlist
The playlist: folk and world – Tinariwen, Marry Waterson, Fay Hield and more
Today’s eclectic playlist includes Kinky Friedman covering Tom Waits, some psychedelic Indian film music and a Tropicália throwback about the World Cup
November 2015
Listen up
Five albums to try this week: Arca, Tinariwen and more
Stream new albums, from Freddie Gibbs’s dextrous rap to Ringo Deathstarr’s dreamy shoegaze, and let us know what you’ll be playing this week
Tinariwen: Live in Paris, Oukis N’Asuf review – an inviting showcase
This live set from the Tuareg masters of desert blues finds them at their invigorating best
The playlist
The playlist – Middle Eastern and north African: Tinariwen, Saad Lamjarred and more
An exclusive desert-blues recording from Tinariwen, ambient electronica from Iran and a half-hour mix of Greek psychedelia and 70s Israeli club tracks
May 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs that build
... up momentum, energy, intensity, layers, volume or sheer emotion. From a whisper to a scream, suggest music that grows in unusual or powerful ways
April 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about itinerants, nomads and migration
Gypsy to Bedouin, mass movements to travelling singers, blues, folk, or rock on the road, suggest songs springing from or inspired by a life of no fixed abode
July 2014
Latitude festival review – music to match the wonderment of the weather
From Damon Albarn's Blur songs to Rag 'N' Bone man's long-lost blues legend voice, performances fit good-naturedness of event, says Michael Hann
February 2014
Tinariwen: Emmaar – review
Desert blues kings Tinariwen have lost none of their allure on this, their sixth long-player, writes Phil Mongredien
Tinariwen: Emmaar – review
Mali's desert blues exponents have made a bleak, political and angry expression of their continued exile, writes Robin Denselow
Album streams
Tinariwen – Emmaar: Exclusive album stream
Have a listen to Tuareg band Tinariwen's sixth album ahead of release and let us know your thoughts
October 2013
Tamikrest – review
Tamikrest: 'This music was founded on a very precise cause – the Tuareg's'
March 2013
Bombino: Nomad – review
Bombino's desert rock is given a western flavour by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, writes Kitty Empire
