Tag: Igloo Records

• Niger band Kel Assouf: “new history of Tuareg music”

  Kel Assouf’s Tikounen LP is out on Igloo Records moving the desert rock sound of the Sahara and Niger forward. The band has evolved greatly from their debut album Tin Hinane (2010). Tikounen (which translates as “surprise”) discusses war, injustice and pollution. “We want to express a feeling of pain. In fact it’s a shout, a…

  WTM

  May 13, 2016

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  Igloo Records, Kel Assouf, Music, Sahara, Tikounen, Tim Hinane, Timbuktu, Tinariwen, Toulou Kiki, Tuareg