"the song is about someone who goes out into the desert until night" -- living in a desert on the other side of the world and not understanding a word of the lyrics, it absolutely makes sense. The constant droning heat, harsh dry air, and beat of lengthy transport across wide meandering stretches of arid land are captured in a sound that nearly paralells the beauty of the enviornment it's written about.
I feel my inner african when I hear this. Its like the original blues music man. My Moroccan teacher always bragged about how the root of american music is actually from the Gnawa and a lot of traditional Berber and Sahel music.
+Araphel Khafre tinariwen DO play their native music - but the inspiration comes from all over the world - i mean, the guy who founded the band was a touareg refugee for most of his childhood and being musical he gathered the cassetes which he could play at that time - among others some hendrix too - this is what came up thru them
This group came into my radar a few years back and I absolutely love their stripped down spacious sound. It's hypnotic, haunting, and they can really jam. One can also hear the power in their lyrics and this is another fine example of how music is truly a universal language. I came across the show in Seattle too late to make it but hoping I can catch them live someday.
Formally established in 1982 at a festival in Algiers by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib Alhassan ag Touhami and fire Intayaden, Taghreft Tinariwen, which means tamasheq "nation building" has played an important role during the Tuareg rebellion 1990s, spreading messages of hope and resistance to their compatriots. Originally, the three friends are playing on an acoustic guitar they share, before meeting an orchestra of Tuareg musicians, voice of the Hoggar singing in Arabic and offer to Ibrahim his first electric guitar. In Tamanrasset, they give concerts accompanied by three women. After this period of exile in Algeria, Ibrahim, Intayeden Alhassan meet Alhousseini Abdoulahi ag, ag Kedhou Ossad Mohammed said "Japanese" in the training camps in Libya. The group is expanding its new members. Lorsqu'éclate rebellion in 1990, they returned to Mali with weapons in hand and slung guitars. They then find themselves integrated into the Popular Movement of Azawad under the command of Iyad ag Ghali to help them finance the purchase of musical instruments.
much gratitude and respect to you for posting the precious Tinariwen for all to see and hear--- recently saw Tinariwen live and look forward to the next time-i Love this band- Thank you Tinariwen
Love this, thx for posting. Love the upside down bass, the drummer's lighter, eagle eye cherry looking dude, the grooves, just everything - much appreciation from the other side of the globe~
Who are the 87 people that don't like this?! I'd like to put them all in a room and ask them to write a 1,000 word essay on why they dislike this music.
I agree usually the likes and dislikes make sense but this is a marvelous music performance as soon as I saw they only have three lights and 80 something dislikes I assumed it was because of what they're wearing and my instinct is usually spot on so many uneducated and ignorant people out there just missing out on all kinds of beautiful worldly things
So, some time ago, I caved and watched a vid of two kittens wrestling (I'm not a cat fan) and it was adorable. It had dislikes. And someone in the comments asked your same question. Someone replied to it saying, "It's so that the same video doesn't keep coming up in their "suggested" videos. I don't know if that works or not. TH-cam's algorithm fails there, it should cycle lots of other VERY similar vids before one you've already seen comes up again. By the way, dislikes are up to 379 today. (Yeah, I spelled out "BTW", guess my age, haha)
I saw these guys play in Brooklyn about 2 years ago and it was honestly amazing....the crowd was going nuts. I went by myself and had the best time ever.
KEXP❤️❤️❤️Merveilleuse radio étasunienne. Quel Groupe, il ressort de leur Musique🎶🎶🎶🪕🎸🪘de leurs Chants, de leurs voix…de la MAGIE. Instant précieux💎💎💎Très beaux Artistes Touaregs qui s’expriment en langue française dans une station de radio des USA👍👏MERCI❣️❣️❣️TINARIWEN quelle surprise!🥀🇫🇷 6.7.2023
Tinariwen (en touareg: « ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ »; du tamasheq, « les déserts », pluriel de ténéré) est un groupe de musique, originaire de Tessalit dans la région de Kidal au nord du Mali, dans l'Adrar des Ifoghas[1],[2],[3]. Leur musique, assouf, qui signifie en tamasheq la solitude, la nostalgie, fait la synthèse entre le blues, le rock et la musique traditionnelle touareg. C'est ce que l'on peut appeler le blues touareg, car comme le blues, il a été créé dans l'exil et la souffrance. Les deux leaders du groupe sont Ibrahim ag Alhabib « Abraybone » et Alhousseini ag Abdoulahi « Abdallah », mais il faut considérer Tinariwen comme une grande famille d'artistes touareg, un mouvement culturel et un courant musical. Les Tinariwen ne constituent pas une formation figée, les artistes y participent à leur guise. Certains, comme Mohamed ag Itlal dit le «Japonais», contribuent à l'aventure grâce à leurs compositions, mais ne souhaitent pas venir faire les tournées mondiales.
toufik saaoui merci pour toutes ces précisions très poussées, un peuple fier et sublime riche d'une culture unique qui a créé une musique blues, moderne et traditionnelle à la fois, à écouter sans limites....!!
enrique lopez The Growlers covered a Tinariwen song and they called it Drinking The Juice Blues. I read an interview where their singer Brooks said that he thought it was a song from some band long gone from the past so he just made up jibberish lyrics in english and they released it as their own. Later he figured out Tinariwen is a modern band and has been giving them shouts out since then.
For all the people not understanding why they love the music without understanding the lyrics, lyrics are subjective when you hear music without understanding the meaning that is beauty of singing it's only another instrument you don't need to understand you only need to feel it
Found these guys by way of time spent with Sahrawi in Western Sahara, a resilient people constantly facing the consequences of imperialism - no doubt connected to the origins of this group
Being a Moroccan, a country that breathes Tichumaren, Folk, Gnawa and Fusion, seeing Tinariwen on KEXP is a very pleasing thing ! Awesome band.
Chakib Tsouli Best regards from Romania, music has no fronteers.
+Chakib Tsouli being moroccan has nothing to do with !
DvYanis it has a lot to do since we are the country where most of the amazigh are from
inesita365 what about Algeria, Mali, and Tunisia, and basically all other countries in the Maghreb and Sahara
no matter what they're singing I don't understand a word
but they're songs & music touches your spirit
Great band.. thanks from Saudi Arabia
+MOATH HARAKAT they are from southern Algeria :)
+marko1978st - you word it Montenegro is in Africa
This band is from north africa,and it has no relation with arabian.They are amazigh or berbere whom live in north africa and they are not arabic.
zoubir cheriet I know that
I'm Arabian so I don't understand their language
but they are awesome
They're singing - "death to infidels" :)
"the song is about someone who goes out into the desert until night" -- living in a desert on the other side of the world and not understanding a word of the lyrics, it absolutely makes sense. The constant droning heat, harsh dry air, and beat of lengthy transport across wide meandering stretches of arid land are captured in a sound that nearly paralells the beauty of the enviornment it's written about.
I don't understand a thing they say ,but I'm playing this for the 3'rd time today.They are different, original , fresh ,I love it !
+Somnivers Probably talking about desert, sand, horses, camels and goats that don't milk.
+Coco The Killa Pfff...
That they talk name of the woman in tamckht in desrt
Yet again showing that music is -beautifully- universal!
@@CocoTehQuila mhm and it's more about life and beautiful holy than what is in most heads of western world
0:13 Cler Achel
5:04 Timadrit in Sahara
9:19 Tahalamot
12:40 Chaghaybou
Thank you, makes life easier to repeat. I love this performance.
***** Art have never solved problem, but has given a voice to people who seems like they don't have one.
Gabriella Vallu i think its beautiful, art gives people voices and lets them be heard
I feel my inner african when I hear this. Its like the original blues music man. My Moroccan teacher always bragged about how the root of american music is actually from the Gnawa and a lot of traditional Berber and Sahel music.
+Araphel Khafre Listen to Kabarira from Rwanda!
+Araphel Khafre You do feel the african child trapped in you?
+Araphel Khafre tinariwen DO play their native music - but the inspiration comes from all over the world - i mean, the guy who founded the band was a touareg refugee for most of his childhood and being musical he gathered the cassetes which he could play at that time - among others some hendrix too - this is what came up thru them
I Don't understand what they are talking but I am addicted listening them almost every week. Music is realy a world language no matter who u are
رغم اني لا افهم اللغة الاغنية لكن الايقع والاداء عالمي في قمة روعة
مستمتع جدا بالمسيقة
ابوالدفاع الطيب من السودان ....الخرطوم
This group came into my radar a few years back and I absolutely love their stripped down spacious sound. It's hypnotic, haunting, and they can really jam. One can also hear the power in their lyrics and this is another fine example of how music is truly a universal language. I came across the show in Seattle too late to make it but hoping I can catch them live someday.
The bassist is something else.
I mean, c'mon playing bass upside down, wow how awesome is that, just pure genius, bro puuuure genius
music unites people
+Bad Mothasucker sigh..
music not enough for you ?
tinfoilsombrero actually it expands our minds horizon frm concepts to realms n frm realms to fathoming
Like an Arabic ? Jimi hendrix
I've been listening to this all day since I discovered it this morning.
This is why I love KEXP.. You can put em on in the background while ya work and get something from the whole world.. love it!
Listening to music sung in an original language of man is quite relaxing. The melodies and rhythmic tones has a calming effect on the brain.
Fair play to KEXP. They get the creme da la creme to do live sets. Love tinariwen. Fantastic.
I think it is a song of lament and loneliness, their sound is sublime.
Thanks for posting,
KEXP
the bassist is freakin awesome!
Music goes beyond any border and barrier. It's a language that touches hearts and souls!
Much love from Cali!
I like how they rotate instruments and vocal duties, a true band.
Formally established in 1982 at a festival in Algiers by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib Alhassan ag Touhami and fire Intayaden, Taghreft Tinariwen, which means tamasheq "nation building" has played an important role during the Tuareg rebellion 1990s, spreading messages of hope and resistance to their compatriots. Originally, the three friends are playing on an acoustic guitar they share, before meeting an orchestra of Tuareg musicians, voice of the Hoggar singing in Arabic and offer to Ibrahim his first electric guitar. In Tamanrasset, they give concerts accompanied by three women. After this period of exile in Algeria, Ibrahim, Intayeden Alhassan meet Alhousseini Abdoulahi ag, ag Kedhou Ossad Mohammed said "Japanese" in the training camps in Libya. The group is expanding its new members. Lorsqu'éclate rebellion in 1990, they returned to Mali with weapons in hand and slung guitars. They then find themselves integrated into the Popular Movement of Azawad under the command of Iyad ag Ghali to help them finance the purchase of musical instruments.
thank you for info! love them!
Y're welcome!
Syph38 Hello! Thank you for sharing this. What is you opinion on Songhoy Blues?
that bass player though!
Noah's Arc The bass was a gift from Flea of RHCP!!!
Alejandro Scaff yeah just the bass not the feeling
Alejandro Scaff I believe you meant the RCMP, right? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police? I think Flea is the name of one of their horses.
His name is Eyadou Ag Leche.
+Mutaz El-tayeb hahaaha you wish...
KEXP THANK YOU from Bali. I'm starving over here for original music . Thank you thank you thank you
much gratitude and respect to you for posting the precious Tinariwen for all to see and hear--- recently saw Tinariwen live and look forward to the next time-i Love this band- Thank you Tinariwen
and thank you also, for sharing
After watching this, my dream is to be a professional clapper
+hahasimp I'll give this comment a round of applause.
+hahasimp I tip my hat to you sir or lady
+Siph Système I tip my burqah to you in return
+hahasimp Beautiful... You Give Purpose to the comment bar.
+hahasimp I was always told that the clap was bad
Sweet jesus christ, I freaking love KEXP.
Love this, thx for posting. Love the upside down bass, the drummer's lighter, eagle eye cherry looking dude, the grooves, just everything - much appreciation from the other side of the globe~
Who are the 87 people that don't like this?! I'd like to put them all in a room and ask them to write a 1,000 word essay on why they dislike this music.
+Josh Miller u dont have to have a reason... im sure theres music u don't like, yes?
+Daniel Simon go to your room and write your essay, Danny!
I agree usually the likes and dislikes make sense but this is a marvelous music performance as soon as I saw they only have three lights and 80 something dislikes I assumed it was because of what they're wearing and my instinct is usually spot on so many uneducated and ignorant people out there just missing out on all kinds of beautiful worldly things
So, some time ago, I caved and watched a vid of two kittens wrestling (I'm not a cat fan) and it was adorable. It had dislikes. And someone in the comments asked your same question. Someone replied to it saying, "It's so that the same video doesn't keep coming up in their "suggested" videos. I don't know if that works or not. TH-cam's algorithm fails there, it should cycle lots of other VERY similar vids before one you've already seen comes up again.
By the way, dislikes are up to 379 today. (Yeah, I spelled out "BTW", guess my age, haha)
@@JoshMillerphoto Now THAT'S funny.
Solid bass.
This shit is amazing. Some of the best music ive ever heard.
reminds me of ali farka toure, i love the blues/world vibe
+anarchitect420 Hit the gong Roger, hit it.
+M. Goetz you know whats up!
+M. Goetz hey is that you mike? gersplooshhh
+anarchitect420 they are both from Mali, I am starting to think Mali is a powerhouse of world music
oh man, great reminder to pull those records out. haven't listened to him in a good while.
cant stop listening for some reason. love the blues-y feeling in the sound
Yeah, blues-y/jazz-y/funk-y... I dig it.
Can't help but groove to these jams - a MUST SEE live.
so proud of you my brothers ❤️🇩🇿 يعطيكم الصحة شرفتونا ❣️❣️
الطوارق اسود الصحراء
All their music is great, but I especially love Water is Life. The song Ahimana still brings tears to my eyes.
loving the vibe.. their passion retained the bands progress despite lot of difficulties they faced..
I saw these guys play in Brooklyn about 2 years ago and it was honestly amazing....the crowd was going nuts. I went by myself and had the best time ever.
Brings me back to my Peace Corps days, thank you KEXP! So glad I found this channel
Très local et moderne à la fois. une invitation au voyage et à la découverte.J'aime beaucoup
It sounds like a mélange of traditional Maghrebi music and blues. Thank you! Merci à tous!
This comments section gives me hope for humanity :)
The power of music homie
This is brilliant. I totally agree, music unites!
me too i'm tuareg your comment is just good.
Love the music and I want to be in the Sahara. The band is doing well and they deserve the success.
Im sure you don't
Tanya Caso - arm chair culturalist perhaps? Let the music take u there in your mind. It is not what you may think.
I wish I could understand the lyrics, the music and singing both are very captivating and beautiful. Greetings from Cambridge Md , USA....
KEXP is forever expanding minds musically. Thanks!
Those bass grooves are so catchy. Love it!
It's amazing how without understanding the lyrics, I still feel the music moving me. Love it.
Absolutely brilliant. This is exotic, high-quality, interesting and well-recorded and played live music. Thanks to Tinariwen and KEXP both.
That 4/4 timing that speaks directly to our ancestral tribal soul. Love it.
been listening to them for a few years now amazing!!!!!!!! and thank you so much Lion! for introducing me to this :D truly amazing music!
when i close my eyes i can travel miles away just listening to them.
love your music brodas
i really love this band because they're from Azawad and we share with them the fight for freedom long live western sahara and Azawad
Goran
Reminds me of Putumayo World Music. please do more!
beautiful!! thank you KEXP for introducing great music to the world.
This is blues at its purest
I love this group, it was a pleasure to see it "live" Thank you for sharing.
my respect to kexp , pour voir ce groupe bien connu en france, really great to see
KEXP❤️❤️❤️Merveilleuse radio étasunienne. Quel Groupe, il ressort de leur Musique🎶🎶🎶🪕🎸🪘de leurs Chants, de leurs voix…de la MAGIE. Instant précieux💎💎💎Très beaux Artistes Touaregs qui s’expriment en langue française dans une station de radio des USA👍👏MERCI❣️❣️❣️TINARIWEN quelle surprise!🥀🇫🇷 6.7.2023
So good. We had privilege of seeng them in Knoxville on their first US tour. Hoping for another one soon! Safe travels Tinariwen!!!
this music rises the spirit....BLESSED!
That's the GNAWI AFRICAN SPIRIT ! BIG UP (y)
Greetin' from ALGERIA ~
+Aroussi Zahra Viva!
+Aroussi Zahra its the blues Touarg ,he has nothing with gnawi
قناوي ولاية بشار
Tinariwen (en touareg: « ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ »; du tamasheq, « les déserts », pluriel de ténéré) est un groupe de musique, originaire de Tessalit dans la région de Kidal au nord du Mali, dans l'Adrar des Ifoghas[1],[2],[3].
Leur musique, assouf, qui signifie en tamasheq la solitude, la nostalgie, fait la synthèse entre le blues, le rock et la musique traditionnelle touareg. C'est ce que l'on peut appeler le blues touareg, car comme le blues, il a été créé dans l'exil et la souffrance. Les deux leaders du groupe sont Ibrahim ag Alhabib « Abraybone » et Alhousseini ag Abdoulahi « Abdallah », mais il faut considérer Tinariwen comme une grande famille d'artistes touareg, un mouvement culturel et un courant musical. Les Tinariwen ne constituent pas une formation figée, les artistes y participent à leur guise. Certains, comme Mohamed ag Itlal dit le «Japonais», contribuent à l'aventure grâce à leurs compositions, mais ne souhaitent pas venir faire les tournées mondiales.
toufik saaoui merci pour toutes ces précisions très poussées, un peuple fier et sublime riche d'une culture unique qui a créé une musique blues, moderne et traditionnelle à la fois, à écouter sans limites....!!
ça fait plaisir, Bonne écoute!
This is awesome! Gotta thank The Growlers for turning me on to this group.
How the growlers turn u on??
enrique lopez The Growlers covered a Tinariwen song and they called it Drinking The Juice Blues. I read an interview where their singer Brooks said that he thought it was a song from some band long gone from the past so he just made up jibberish lyrics in english and they released it as their own. Later he figured out Tinariwen is a modern band and has been giving them shouts out since then.
The mixdown of instruments, percussion and voicing is balanced. The music style is very dynamic.
Beautiful line of bass on the first song. Great music.
I saw them in Ecuador... they are amazing...!!! and yes Music is the language of the soul... unites souls
I keep comin back to this, So fkn good and inspiring i wanna max volume this forever.
These guys have such a great sound, loved it from the first note!
This was such an interesting performance. i really dig their music. aweomse video. thank you again, kexp. and thank you, Tinariwen.
It goes to show that, music is universal.
western melodies simply have been started to be same so different cultures music is make things cheer
I just love this band. Tuaregs are great people. And musically gifted.
NORTH AFRICA IS AMAZIGH
ABDELKARIM AL KHATTABI IS OUR LEADER
I SALUTE MY AMAZIGH BROTHERS IN ALL NORTH AFRICA
FROM THE RIF , TAMAZIGHT FOR LIFE!
This radio is AMAZING!!!! Thank you very much!!!
blues belongs to noone and to everyone, Africa is the craddle of humanity but pentatonics scales come from all over the world....
He is literally playing the bass upside down... low E is on the bottom and high E is on the top....
fucking rad@@
bass is sick!@ clean guitar tones are awesome. Vocals are so sweet. Good stuff!
Greetings from Georgia
maybe once I will feel it in live
absolutely wonderful
I GOT TO MEET THESE GUYS AT SXSW
Wow. They put off an amazing vibe!
Tina are simply delightful. ..
Oh man, this is marvelous. Keep that music wheel spinning, KEXP.
these guys should do a show in Brazil. Here're missing authenticity
Just like the desert, pure music.
I saw them here in Brazil and I should say they are great live!
These guys are amazing!
For all the people not understanding why they love the music without understanding the lyrics, lyrics are subjective when you hear music without understanding the meaning that is beauty of singing it's only another instrument you don't need to understand you only need to feel it
So soothing and mystical, resonates in my heart and transports me.
the bass line is just amazing
This is so cool! Love their outfits
An amazing inspiring groovy music. I totally love it!
Found these guys by way of time spent with Sahrawi in Western Sahara, a resilient people constantly facing the consequences of imperialism - no doubt connected to the origins of this group
damn I didn't know that there is such a music like this I'm glad I discovered this band cheers from Texas
I just want to be present at ONE live performance before I leave this world
Stumbled across this and it has a great vibe!
I cant stress how amazing this is. This is amazing. Amazing. Awesome
We called them desert blues when they was on festival in Czech Republic.
A kde byli včeské republice prosím?
Nikola Kefurtova No přece na Trutnově :-)
The groove is all that, glad I listened.
They are soo real and also seem very wise