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Tinariwen detail sixth LP, Emmaar
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 3 December 2013
Saharan folk troupe Tinariwen have announced they’re to issue a new album, their sixth, on 10 Feb. The band’s first to be made outside their homeland – because of the difficult political climate in Mali – ‘Emmaar’ was instead recorded in California’s Joshua Tree desert.
Bassist Eyadou Ag Leche says of that: “We would like to live in peace in the North of Mali, but this is very difficult, there is no administration, no banks, no food, no gas. Joshua Tree is in the high desert of California, we all love the desert, these are places where we feel good to live and to create”.
He adds: “The new songs of this album talk about what we feel today. The Tuareg issues, the need of being recognised by the administration of our country. But also some poetic ways of describing our feelings. The Tamasheq language is using a lot of metaphors, and it comes from the old traditional Tuareg poetry that tells about the Tuareg tribes, their adventures in the desert, the wars, but also the beauty of the desert, the sky, the lands, and the Assouf, our blues, and nostalgia of an old time”.
This is the ‘Emmar’ tracklisting, which I’ve just found quite hard to pronounce:
Toumast Tincha
Chaghaybou
Arhegh Danagh
Timadrit In Sahara
Imidiwan Ahi Sigdim
Tahalamot
Sendad Eghlalan
Imidiwanin ahi Tifhamam
Koud Edhaz Emin
Emajer
Aghregh Medin
And this, ahead of the release of the whole LP on 10 Feb 2014, is its first song, ‘Toumast Tincha’:
