Bombino, a young musician from Niger, makes music both ancient and contemporarywith percussion and vocal components that date back of the Sahara Desert's dunes. Born Omara Moctar, Bombino is of the ...

Mdou Moctar plays a style of desert blues called “ishumar,” which is technically a new genre. Rock ‘n’ roll audiences have begun to embrace the music of Moctar and his colleagues because there’s ...

Launched in 2001 by Tuareg guitarists Keddou Ag Ossad and Sanou Ag Ahmed, founding members of the acclaimed world music outfit Tinariwen, Terakaft has honed a leaner, more stripped-down approach by ...

A single-stringed violin played only by Tuareg women is making a comeback in Algeria as the last of its players come to the rescue of a tradition on the verge of extinction. Women have long played the ...

In a story too far-fetched for a Hollywood script, Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar survived life on the run as a desert fugitive, only to emerge four years later as a ...

TAMANRASSET, Algeria, Jan 25, (AFP): A single-stringed violin played only by Tuareg women is making a comeback in Algeria as the last of its players come to the rescue of a tradition on the verge of ...

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A single-chord violin played only by Tuareg women is making a comeback in Algeria as the last of its players come to the rescue of a tradition on the verge of extinction. Women have long played the ...