Tuareg desert blues veterans Tinariwen have a world tour coming up, but it won't come to North America because of the extremely fucked-up travel bans currently in place in the US. This shit sucks! The band's new album Hoggar comes out next month. We already posted the album's lead single, a take on the traditional Sudanese song "Sagherat Assani." Today, Tinariwen share their collaboration with the Swedish singer-songwriter José Gonzalez
José González is a longtime Tinariwen fan, and his own album Against The Dying Of The Light is set to come out a couple of weeks after Hoggar. He sings in Spanish on "Imidiwan Takyadam," a heartbroken acoustic song about being forced to live a migrant life. Here's what Tinariwen's Ibrahim Ag Alhabib says about it:
Friends, look at what is unfolding before us. This is a song I wrote long ago, yet today its echo feels stronger than ever. It speaks of our people, the Tamasheq, scattered across distant lands, slowly losing the threads of their culture and their ancestral heritage. It is a call to memory and to conscience — a reminder not to forget our brothers and sisters who endure suffering under the tyranny of short-sighted and foolish leaders.
Listen below.
Hoggar is out 3/13 on Tinariwen's own Wedge label.
