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THE STORY (written by journalist Andy Morgan): "I first met Tinariwen in a tent on the wide stony plains of the Tamesna, sixty clicks due east of Kidal in the far northeastern corner of Mali. The date was January 6th 2001 and the occasion was the first Festival in the Desert. It was my friendship with the French group Lo'Jo that had brought me there. I was tired, dirty, and elated, floating in the strangely sharp yet magical ether of the Saharan atmosphere. I had managed to miss the Festival's official opening the day before, when Tinariwen had taken to the tiny concrete platform that passed for a stage to welcome a convoy of twenty-four 4x4 vehicles carrying the Prime Minister of Mali, four Ambassadors, and an ostentatiously tooled-up escort. Everyone I spoke to confirmed that Tinariwen were the pied pipers of the region, a band of legendary renown, a band to know. My instinct was to just let the flow of each succeeding moment carry me away, but a gnawing and neurotic desire to capture those moments for posterity, to maximise journalistic opportunties, led me to ask if I could interview Tinariwen. A time was fixed, an act which in itself seemed disturbingly incongruous in that timeless place. "
WORLD MUSIC BLOGGER SAYS: It's interesting reading Andy Morgan write about TINARIWEN...the experience sounds so spiritual. As a matter of fact, there seems to be a spiritual aspect to any article written about the group.
I met Tinariwen some time ago, hanging out around a motel swimming poll in Lafayette Louisiana. They were in a trance...playing guitar and singing until the wee hours of the AM. I was moved by how much they loved to play. They never seemed to fatigue. While they entertained us, their tour manager told me about how he used to sit around a campfire with them in the Mali desert while they were working on this most recent album. He talked about how the music just seemed to come to them from some far-off place. Spiritual.
I've long said that I look more forward to a new CD by Tinariwen then just about anyone else. Their music always reminds me of my New Orleans days...bouncing from blues bar to blues bar...catching John Mayall and Little Charlie...all an attempt to chase down the ghost of Robert Johnson. I guess Tinariwen makes me spiritual too!
THE STORY (written by journalist Andy Morgan): "I first met Tinariwen in a tent on the wide stony plains of the Tamesna, sixty clicks due east of Kidal in the far northeastern corner of Mali. The date was January 6th 2001 and the occasion was the first Festival in the Desert. It was my friendship with the French group Lo'Jo that had brought me there. I was tired, dirty, and elated, floating in the strangely sharp yet magical ether of the Saharan atmosphere. I had managed to miss the Festival's official opening the day before, when Tinariwen had taken to the tiny concrete platform that passed for a stage to welcome a convoy of twenty-four 4x4 vehicles carrying the Prime Minister of Mali, four Ambassadors, and an ostentatiously tooled-up escort. Everyone I spoke to confirmed that Tinariwen were the pied pipers of the region, a band of legendary renown, a band to know. My instinct was to just let the flow of each succeeding moment carry me away, but a gnawing and neurotic desire to capture those moments for posterity, to maximise journalistic opportunties, led me to ask if I could interview Tinariwen. A time was fixed, an act which in itself seemed disturbingly incongruous in that timeless place. "
WORLD MUSIC BLOGGER SAYS: It's interesting reading Andy Morgan write about TINARIWEN...the experience sounds so spiritual. As a matter of fact, there seems to be a spiritual aspect to any article written about the group.
I met Tinariwen some time ago, hanging out around a motel swimming poll in Lafayette Louisiana. They were in a trance...playing guitar and singing until the wee hours of the AM. I was moved by how much they loved to play. They never seemed to fatigue. While they entertained us, their tour manager told me about how he used to sit around a campfire with them in the Mali desert while they were working on this most recent album. He talked about how the music just seemed to come to them from some far-off place. Spiritual.
I've long said that I look more forward to a new CD by Tinariwen then just about anyone else. Their music always reminds me of my New Orleans days...bouncing from blues bar to blues bar...catching John Mayall and Little Charlie...all an attempt to chase down the ghost of Robert Johnson. I guess Tinariwen makes me spiritual too!
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