TINARIWEN - BBC Radio 3 Session 2014 (Flac)

The previous post by Malian band Songhoy Blues has been very popular, its great to know that this music is appreciated by blog visitors so here's another superb session for you all. 

While searching for some audio files, for what was to be the next post, (a bootleg mix compiling radio sessions and live tracks) from my hard drives by one of the post-millenium's most critically acclaimed and successful bands. I came across these files by another Malian band, Tinariwen. 

It's a BBC Radio 3 session, ostensibly to promote their sixth album release 'Emmaar' (The heat on the breeze). It was their first full album recorded outside northern Africa. The band had fled to the USA after a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of northern Mali. Three of the five songs performed on this session (*) appear on the 'new' album. 

BBC Radio 3
Tinariwen In Session
World on 3 Studio 80A, Broadcasting House, London
Friday 2 May 2014 / 11pm-1am

A live session in our studio, plus interview, with this celebrated nomadic Tuareg band from the Sahara desert, offering more of their unique brand of Malian blues. Tinariwen plays material from their new album Emmaar, recorded in another desert, Joshua Tree National Park in California, miles away from their homeland because of its political instability.

01. Nazagh Ejbal
02. Toumast Tincha *
03. chat
04. Timadrit In Sahara *
05. Sastan Nakham
06. chat
07. Chaghaybou *

Eyadou Ag Leche - bass, guitar, calabash, vocals
Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni - guitar, vocals
Alhassane Ag Touhami - guitar, vocals
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib - guitar, vocals
Abdallah Ag Lamida - guitar, vocals
Yad Abderrahmane - guitar, vocals
Said Ag Ayad - percussion, vocals
Elaga Ag Hamid - guitar, vocals
Mohammed Ag Tahada - percussion
Wonou Walet Sidati - vocals

Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a live session from Tuareg band Tinariwen

LINK

 

“Malian musicians in California playing riffs that Robert Johnson would sell his soul for, again.”
- NME 8/10 (UK)

“It's a pleasure to hear how Tinariwen keeps finding new ways to translate the soul of the Sahara.”
- NPR (USA)

“This album will rock your brain, psychedelic!”
- Les Inrockuptibles (France)

1. Toumast Tincha

2. Chaghaybou

3. Arhegh Danagh

4. Timadrit In Sahara

5. Imidiwan Ahi Sigdim

6. Tahalamot

7. Sendad Eghlalan

8. Imdiwanin ahi Tifhamam

9. Koud Edhaz Emin

10. Emajer

11. Aghregh Medin (Hassan’s song)

TOUMAST TINCHA (The People Have Been Sold Out)
The ideals of the people have been sold off cheap, my friends.
Any peace imposed by force is bound to fail
And give way to hatred.
My people, where is that self-confidence
Made of dignity and beauty of spirit
That our ancestors bequeathed to us?