We know what to expect with ‘Desert Blues’ by now. In some ways, Tamikrest’s fourth album doesn’t venture far from the formula of unhurriedly evolving, hypnotic mash-ups of the sparsest of Delta Blues ...

An area of political unrest for over two decades, it's probably not surprising that Mali should have developed its own unique take on the blues. Tamikrest are a younger band than, say, Tinariwen who ...

The passion and range of the Saharan Tuareg band’s music was somewhat lost in translation until their gig’s triumphant finale It wasn’t until the encore that Ousmane Ag Mossa invited a translator on ...

The early 1960s saw the end of colonial rule for many countries in West Africa and the Sahara Desert region in particular. While the independence of Mali, Niger, Algeria, and other countries in the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Forced by the political crisis in Mali to take refuge in Algeria, the young Touareg band Tamikrest have recorded a ...

In particular its CBD has been maligned for a lack of soul and culture since the lockdown laws made it difficult for any semblance of excitement to emerge, and the last couple of years have only ...