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Calling themselves “poet-guitarists and soul rebels from the Southern Sahara desert,” Tinariwen’s members began playing music together in the 1980s in and around the town of Tamanrasset in southern Algeria. They spent several years in the same military training camp in Libya before the Touareg rebellion broke out simultaneously in Mali and Niger and sent them out to battle in the southern Sahara.
Their name means “deserts” or “empty spaces,” and their fifth album, Tassili, was fittingly recorded in a Mauritanian tent the deserts of southern Algeria, near the town of Djane. It won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2011. Their other albums include The Radio Tisdas Sessions (2001), Amassakoul (2004), Aman Iman (2007) and Imidiwan (2009).
