Tinariwen -
From the southern Sahara, with a sound that's similar to Ali Farka Toure, only darker and deeper. Tinariwen fought a rebellion in the early 1990s to win greater freedom and self-determination for the Touareg people of the southern Sahara. The fight was brief and bloody but it gave birth to a whole new style of desert music, powered by rolling rhythms and electric guitars.
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