Assikel, by Tamikrest

8 track album

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Mdou Moctar – Tala Tannam

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdou-moctar-chismiten-tala-tannam/

2 videos released for the album “Afrique Victime” by Mdou Moctar in 2021.

If people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music in this album on acoustic guitars.

With “Afrique Victime” the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and […]

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Tinariwen – Emmaar

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-emmaar/

Emmaar (“the heat on the breeze”) is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014 and their first full album not recorded in Africa.

After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of […]

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Tamikrest – Assikel

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/

The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.

Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ag Alhabib (Tinariwen)

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🎵 Tinariwen; Kyp Malone; Babatunde Adebimpe - Tenere Taqqim Tossam

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🎵 Bombino - Tenere

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Ali Farka Toure – Savane

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More info on the 20th anniversary edition of this album.

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Tamikrest at Gannet in Basel, 29 May 2026

After Ousmane Ag Mossa plays a first brief melodic figure on guitar, Farid Hamidou establishes a soft quater-note rhythm on djembe, and Ousmane elaborates on the melody. Although the feel is rubato, there's already a groove coming together, and the dancers begin swaying. A few moments later, Cédric Maurel enters

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🎵 Bombino - Imuhar

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This New Music Friday I recommend 'Assikel' by Tamikrest.

https://tamikrest.bandcamp.com/album/assikel

Nice slice of desert blues. Great groove and guitar tone.

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