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Tinariwen’s breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes.  Amassakoul features songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, Touhami Ag Alhassane.

Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries - Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar, a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen’s music – a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – speaks directly to this feeling of longing: a sound that critics have called “desert blues”.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Amassakoul’n’ténéré
A2 Oualahila Ar Tesninam
A3 Chatma

Side B
B1 Arawan
B2 Chet Boghassa
B3 Amidinin

Side C
C1 Ténéré Daféo Nikchan
C2 Aldhechen Manin
C3 Alkhar Dessouf

Side D
D1 Eh Massina Sintadoben
D2 Assoul
D3 Taskiwt Tadjat (Bonus Track Unreleased)