Group Inerane
Guitars From Agadez (vol. 1) Music

The first Group Inerane record was the shit. A perfect blend of cyclical Saharan modality, cutting melodies, a near-infinite expansiveness and ecstati...

Political turmoil, violence, and personal tragedy are not what immediately come to mind when listening to Group Inerane. The joyful, exuberant songs o...

Sublime Frequencies has been creating something of a collectors’ market for their limited-run vinyl releases of unusual world music from Syria, Niger,...

It was while watching the DVD documentary Palace Of The Winds that I first really started to see the similarities between the situation facing the Tua...

Admirable blend of American and Tuareg folk music traditions with a "virtuostic" lead guitar performance. Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez, Vol. 2 ...

In my review of Volume 1 of Guitars from Agadez (Music of Niger), I referred to the Tuareg Rebellion of Northern Africa in the past tense. Unfortunate...

Agadez is a Saharan city, a trading town, and an important meeting place for the different groups of Tuareg who gather there. It has a camel market. U...

Agadez is the largest city in Northern Niger, an area politically defined during the 1960s as colonial rule came to a close and African nations gained...

Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet travels like a tramp, carrying his bag of recording equipment on hitched rides and charter buses across Af...

The Tuareg people of Northern Africa operated the much-coveted trans-Saharan caravan trade for centuries. Nomadic pastoralists were often feared as br...