"I felt this was the music I'd been looking for all my life." - Robert Plant The Kel Tamasheq people, known collectively as the Tuareg nomads, have wandered the Saharan Desert for millennia. Long under siege from poverty, drought, and political unrest, the Tuareg have cultivated a fiercely independent culture and their own unique musical voice. Over the last forty years, their style of rebellious guitar-based desert blues, called Tishoumaren, has emerged. This music flows from the same…
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