Listen to the song “Taqkal Tarha” featuring Micah Nelson off Amadjar. Photo by Marie Planeille Tuareg band Tinariwen are back this year with Amadjar, their first new album since 2017’s Elwan. Forthcoming on September 6th via ANTI-RECORDS. Listen to the first track […]

The forthcoming album on Sahel Sounds pushes the boundaries of tuareg music, in between future and past. Born in a small village in central Niger in a remote region steeped in religious tradition, Mahamadou “Mdou Moctar” […]

The power trio is back with Black Tenere, a radical new album. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef, the mastermind behind the highly touted AMMAR 808, the new album strips things back to a power […]

Western travelers are fewer and fewer in Sahel today. Especially when it comes to record music. This is exactly the moment Chris Kirkley chose to explore this territory through his label Sahel Sounds, a collective […]

Imarhan’s second album Temet will be released on City Slang on February 23rd 2018. “Azzaman” is the first single. Support by artits like Kurt Vile, Steve Shelley or Usher, touareg band from Tamanrasset – South Algeria – […]

The Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali – star in her home country and daughter of the Feature Dimi Mint Abba, with who she started her singer at 13 – is back with a second album “Arbina” via Glitterbeat Records. Mélangeant les sons du […]