Bombino, a young musician from Niger, makes music both ancient and contemporarywith percussion and vocal components that date back of the Sahara Desert's dunes. Born Omara Moctar, Bombino is of the ...

Tuareg greats Imarhan released their new album Aboogi today via City Slang. The album features a number of notable guests, including Tinariwen’s Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, and Super Furry Animals’ Gruff ...

Said to be the first Tuareg woman to professionally play guitar, Fatou Seidi Ghali began secretly learning the instrument after her brother brought a guitar home from Libya. Ghali told The Guardian ...

Forged by the unforgiving Sahara Desert, over which they ruled for centuries as traders, the Tuareg have never shied away from a fight. In recent years, one of the most effective weapons in their ...

The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects that ...

At age 4, Ibrahim Al Alhabib, the founder of Malian desert-blues group Tinariwen, saw his father executed during the Tuareg rebellion of 1962–1964. His father, like many Tuareg rebels, was fighting ...

Mdou Moctar plays a style of desert blues called “ishumar,” which is technically a new genre. Rock ‘n’ roll audiences have begun to embrace the music of Moctar and his colleagues because there’s ...

Prolific Tuareg songwriter/guitarist Mdou Moctar, born Mahamadou Souleymane, is Muslim, does not drink, and has given up smoking, but his catalog sounds like an intensely cinematic, psychedelic trip.

Ever since the Malian "desert blues" band Tinariwen began to build an international audience at the dawn of the millennium, a steady stream of Saharan guitar music has been making its way around the ...

LOVERS of live music in Tamanrasset, a mountainous city in Southern Algeria, need look no further than a wedding for their fix. They are where most local bands make their name, according to Iyad ...