Imarhan
The band’s debut album is intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music – a nomadic, Saharan culture, with music popularized in western culture by the group Tinariwen (the frontmen of that group and Imarhan are cousins). This new wave of Tuareg musicians sound very different to the desert distortion that accompanies groups like Mdou Moctar or Group Inerane. Instead, it finds a calm and passionate soul, provides sumptuous slow burners, and a complexity of composition that hasn’t been demonstrated by previous music exported from the Saharan people’s musical repertoire.
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