Date
Thursday 6 March 2014 at 7:00pm
Location
Village Underground
54 Holywell Lane,
London,
EC2A 3PQ,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.(0)20 7422 7505
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Description
Tinariwen will play over two special nights, 6 and 7 March at the Village Underground and are a must see!
We’re excited to bring back music collective Tinariwen from Mali to London’s Village Underground on 2014. A band propelled to stardom after receiving critical acclaim for their 2007 release Aman Iman and winning ‘Best World Music Album’ for Tassili at the 54th Grammy award 2012. Tinariwen have become a very important band on the world performance circuit and for all those searching for a unique, heartfelt and moving experience will not be disappointed. Harsh experiences like that of the military conflict in Mali are expressed through traditional instruments such as the imzad and uniquely combined with the western guitar.
Tinariwen’s music and sensibility have always been close to the American Blues and on ‘Tassili’ they re-enact the emotions of an individual who finds himself face to face with loneliness and doubt, gripped by torment, the prisoner of inextricable circumstances (‘Djeredjere’). But that individual also manages to find hope in the strength of his community (‘Imidiwan Wan Sahara’) or in the simple pleasure afforded by insignificant daily moments, as on the song ‘Takest Tamidarest’, sung by Abdallah, which drops us right in the middle of the desert, with its slow-baked pace that lends itself to pure contemplation of man’s surrounding and to profound inner meditation. For that reason, ‘Tassili’ isn’t just an extraordinary musical moment, in which Tinariwen repossess their own art to the extent that they feel completely relaxed about inviting others into their world, it’s also a shared human experience of rare quality.
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