Imarhan - Essam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nYzGz2VGU
Bandcamp: https://imarhan.bandcamp.com/album/essam
When Tuareg Poetry meets Electronic Music.
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Imarhan - Tamiditin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuwyKbSCyTY
Tinariwen – Hoggar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-hoggar/
Released in March 2026, “Hoggar” is Tinariwen’s tenth studio album.
“Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community.”
Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between [...]
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Je vous invite au voyage dans ce documentaire qui retrace mon parcours et ma rencontre avec Baly Othmani dans un film-documentaire, ci-dessous dans son intégralité (in French, with English subtitles), “Assikel, de Bali à Baly”.
Découvez le chemin parcouru de Bali, l’île d’Indonésie, à Baly, l’homme bleu…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-bali-baly-documentary/
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Desert Blues with Les Filles de Illighadad
https://amf.didiermary.fr/desert-blues-filles-illighadad/
Listen to some Desert Blues by “Les Filles de Illighadad” live.
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Bombino – Inar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-inar/
Studio recording of the song “Inar” (If You Know the Degree of My Love For You) from the album “Azel” in 2016.
Bombino delivers an accessible sound that will appeal to fans of blues, indie rock, jam bands, world music and more…
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Tinariwen – Lulla
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-lulla/
Lulla is a song about the conflicts in Mali, on Tinariwen‘s album “Imidiwan: Companions” released in June 2009. It’s the fourth studio album by the Tuareg band.
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Tinariwen – Tenere Den
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-tenere-den/
From the “Amatssou” album (May 2023) by Tinariwen, this new single “Tenere Den” connects Desert Blues and Country Music. A press release explains that the song “pays homage to the Tuareg revolution in the Kel Adagh region of Mali.” Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African […]
Tiwiza – At U Azeka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tiwiza-at-u-azeka/
Tiwiza offers North African indie blues rock, inspired by Matoub Lounès (Algerian Kabylian singer, poet and thinker), Tinariwen or Orchestre National de Barbès.
This band, based in France (Toulouse), intends to merge the Berber culture, which spans nine countries and encompasses Tuareg blues as well as Gnawa music, with the music of the Clash or […]
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Music from Saharan Cellphones
https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/
Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, [...]
#Compilation #DesertBlues #Mali #Morocco #Niger #Rock #Tuareg #Global
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Amaka Jaji – Tidet
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amaka-jaji-tidet/
The Tuareg musician and photographer Amaka Jaji, born in Ghat, an oasis in the Libyan south and based in Tunis, fuses tradition with modern sounds in his debut album “TIDET” (truth).
“My vision is to take Tuareg and Sufi music and make it popular and understandable, so those who don’t know what I’m saying can […]
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Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mystere-jazz-tombouctou/
The Orchestre Regional de Tombouctou, also known as “Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou”, did not release a recording until 1977.
During the era of Mali’s first President, Modibo Keita (1960-1968), the government created regional orchestras and arts troupes in each of the nation’s seven regions. These groups were state-sponsored and from 1962 they competed in […]
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Tinariwen (and Guests) – Nannuflay
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-guests-nannuflay/
Nannuflay (“Fulfilled”) from Tinariwen‘s album Elwan in 2017. With American rockers Kurt Vile and Mark Lanegan as guests.
In the Sahara Desert, an old Tuareg man comes back to the camp where he grew up for a party. He remembers the joys and the torments of the nomadic life he lived with a friend who […]
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Bombino – Deran Deran Alkeir
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bombino-deran-deran-alkeir/
Bombino (Omara “Bombino” Moctar) is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. His music frequently addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns and is sung in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language.
Deran is Bombino’s follow up record to 2016’s Azel. The album was recorded in Casablanca, Morocco and released in 2018. “It was almost [...]
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Mdou Moctar – Ibitlan
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-ibitlan/
“Ibitlan” comes from volume 2 of the Niger EP series by Mdou Moctar. It was first released in 2014 as part of “Anar”, a special vinyl edition, from earlier recordings. Spaced out autotune from Niger. Tuareg guitar accompanied with loping drum machines and vocal plug ins, interpreted via the filter of Bollywood influenced Hausa pop. […]
Super11 – raw Desert Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/
If you like pure raw desert blues, this video is for you, as it’s a perfect origin for so many contemporary artists from the Sahel region.
“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: […]
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Bombino – Nomad (EPK)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/first-listen-bombino-nomad/
“Nomad”, released by Omara “Bombino” Moctar in 2013, follows his first recorded album “Agadez” in 2011.
Omara “Bombino” Moctar, a young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter, was raised during an era of armed struggles for independence and violent suppression by government forces. His electrifying jams capture the spirit of resistance and rebellion [...]
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Steve Shehan, de Bali à Baly
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-bali-baly-documentary/
Le percussionniste et compositeur Steve Shehan ( @steveshehan ) vous invite au voyage dans ce documentaire qui retrace son parcours et sa rencontre avec Baly Othmani dans un film-documentaire, ci-dessous dans son intégralité (in French, with English subtitles).
“Assikel, de Bali à Baly” retrace le chemin qu'il a parcouru de Bali, l’île d’Indonésie, à Baly, l’homme bleu… […]
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Tamikrest – Assikel
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/
The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.
Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ag Alhabib (Tinariwen)
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Baly Othmani (R.I.P) – Amin Amin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-baly-othmani-awalin/
Born in 1953 in Djanet, the author, composer and singer Othman Bali (aka Baly Othmani, whose real name was Mbarek Othmani), was the initiator of a musical movement introducing the lute in traditional music and poems learnt from his mother, a reknown Tinde singer, with whom he travelled the world before he passed away in […]
Tinariwen – Emmaar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-emmaar/
Emmaar (“the heat on the breeze”) is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014 and their first full album not recorded in Africa.
After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of […]
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Mdou Moctar – Tala Tannam
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-chismiten-tala-tannam/
2 videos released for the album “Afrique Victime” by Mdou Moctar in 2021.
If people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music in this album on acoustic guitars.
With “Afrique Victime” the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and […]
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Tamikrest – Awnafin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-awnafin/
An iconic Saharan Rock band, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen, and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people. It’s more Desert Rock, than Blues… […]
Mdou Moctar – Wiwasharnine
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-wiwasharnine/
“Wiwasharnine” is from Mdou Moctar‘s full length album “Ilana: The Creator” in 2019.
Born in a nomad camp in Niger and now a leading figure of desert rock, Mdou Moctar stands out as the most innovative artist in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar have pushed him to the forefront of a […]
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Ishumar – Toumast
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ishumar-toumast-2007/
Ishumar is the first album by band Toumast, released in October 2006.
Moussa Ag Keyna, a former Tuareg fighter who took refuge in France, formed the group Toumast in the spirit of Tinariwen in the mid-1990s. He was joined by the singer Aminatou Goumar.
Lead singer Moussa Ag Keyna who, together with Aminatou [Goumar] and French […]
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