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2008-09-02 05:14:00 by Rho in Rho-Xs
...Tamashek "empty places") is a musical band formed in 1979 in Moammar al-Qadhafi's camps of Tuareg rebels. They play in the Tishoumaren ("music of the unemployed") style, and sing mostly in the French and Tamashek languages. Their songs mostly cover the subject of independence for their people from the government of Mali. They are said to be...
 
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Tinariwen performs at the Cedar in Minneapolis

2008-01-18 02:50:50 by Editor in World Music Central
 
...Tamashek plural for desert or open space. An open space is how they insisted the Minneapolis-based Cedar arrange themselves for their show on November 16th Their music, played on a handful of electric guitars and one bongo drum, is as arresting as their costume. Saturday evening, shortly after eight oclock, six tunic-clad and turbaned...
 
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Tinariwen performs at the Cedar in Minneapolis

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2008-01-18 02:50:00 by Editor in World Music Central
...Tamashek plural for desert or open space. An open space is how they insisted the Minneapolis-based Cedar arrange themselves for their show on November 16th. All the chairs have been stacked and put away save for a few short rows on either end of the large dance floor in front of the stage. The band wanted an audience that could move about and...
 
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ETRAN FINATAWA - Desert Crossroads (Riverboat)

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2008-05-29 06:47:00 by Con in A World of Music
...Tamashek in particular has everything a desert blues addict needs - a snaking electric guitar motif, chunky acoustic guitar rhythms, a bouncy, rocking beat and a chorus to draw the most reluctant of phonetic singers-along out of their shells The stripped back but catchy Amidinine also begs audience participation, and on the more traditional...
 
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Chronicle of April 2008

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2008-06-01 20:00:00 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...Tamashek language, the vocal melody usually ran parallel to the guitar line. The Wodaabe songs, in Fulfulde, were more contrapuntal, with voice and guitar diverging and multiple singers in call and response. There were also Wodaabe songs that began with a lone, unaccompanied singer sustaining a note in a long crescendo until the other voices...
 
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