Tinariwen - Amassakoul - Limited Edition Indigo Vinyl Double LP - 2022 Reissue with Bonus Track

Label: WEDGE
Cat no: WEDGELP0121C
Release Date: 25/03/2022

Tinariwen - Amassakoul  - Limited Edition Indigo Vinyl Double LP - 2022 Reissue with Bonus Track

**Only 3,000 copies worldwide. With exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. Includes download code**

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Tinariwen's breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. The first vinyl pressing is limited edition indigo vinyl – only 3000 copies worldwide and the download card provides 24-bit WAV. Amassakoul features songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, and Touhami Ag Alhassane.

Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries – Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar, a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen’s music – a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – speaks directly to this feeling of longing: a sound that critics have called “desert blues”.