Going to a “soirée guitare”. North Mali. 2009
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Abalessa Festival. Tuareg kids waiting for Samba Touré concerts. 2010. South Algeria.
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Imzad festival. 2009. Tamanrasset. South Algeria.
© Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
Ishumar festival. 2009. South Algeria.
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Tinariwen wins the world music album award at The GRAMMYs ! © Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
Abdallah “Catastrophe” Ag Alhousseyni / Tinariwen. Le 104. Paris. 27/06/2011. © Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
Hamawassa band, Mohamed Bilalan Ag Ganta, Tuareg musician from Arlit, North Niger. © Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
Bombino, Hendrix from Agadez, Fest Banlieues Bleues, 04/2011
Going South. Don’t know where’s the border, behind us ? But going south. Algeria or Mali. 2009
Listen to Ikabkaban by Inerane, they play as fast as we drove +++
Aminatou Goumar. Toumast. 2011. Paris
Listen to their great cover You Got Me Floatin (Jimi Hendrix)
Tinariwen’s public. Tamanrasset. Imzad Festival. January 2010. Amazed by tuareg youth coming from all over Ahaggar to see their guitar heros.
Tinariwen concert. Imzad festival. 2010. Tamanrasset. South Algeria. First time Tinariwen can play on a huge stage in Tamanrasset. The public is so “hot” for authorities that they can only play 4 songs including their “Cler achel”.
Obama in Abalessa. Young tuareg in a music festival. South Algeria. 2010
From Tamanrasset to Ahaggar Tassili. Algeria. 2009
Tamikrest, the new generation from Kidal, North Mali. 2011.
Listen to their Aratan N Tinariwen +++
