Tinariwen in Berlin - June 22, 2023

June 22, 2023 - The legendary band TINARIWEN in the intimate venue Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.
Formed by Ibrahim ag Alhabib in the late 1970s, the African band Tinariwen always had a clear mission to preserve the musical culture of the nomadic tribes of the Tuareg people who have guided caravans through the Sahara desert from time immemorial. Most of the band's lyrics written in the Tamashek language are imbued with the struggle of exile that Tuareg people faced in the second half of the 20th century.
When a group of young Tuareg musicians came together in the Algerian oasis city of تمنراست/Tamanrasset in 1979, all they wanted to do was to preserve and promote the cultural traditions and political aspirations of the Tuareg people - semi-nomadic pastoralists who are spread out all across the Sahara desert.
The collective of young refugees from Mali - where the Tuareg have fought a decades-long struggle for independent statehood - performed at parties, weddings and around nomadic campfires, playing their repertoire of ‘desert blues’.
Their music heavily influenced by traditional Tuareg music as well as Algerian pop rai, Morocco’s chaabi protest music and even some classic rock - and singing Tamashek songs about homesickness, longing and facing the challenges of modernity.
Almost 30 years later Tinariwen has toured the world, released a string of critically acclaimed records, won a Grammy for Best World Music Album, and become the world’s foremost proponents of Tuareg culture and political assertion.
Along the way, members of the group have braved harassment and threats from the Malian government and Islamist groups in their home country, lived through rebellion and civil war, and in the case of some of the older members of the group, even fought as armed rebels in the 1990 Tuareg uprising, leading Slate Magazine to call them “rock 'n' roll rebels whose rebellion, for once, wasn't just metaphorical.”
And I finally got to see them live in a small venue in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany on June 22, 2023 🎸 🌍
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So proud of this group that was able to discover the music and culture of a great Tuareg people# Tinariwen 🔥🎸