New material out soon with Cesare Basile
http://terakaftband.com/
“In a Bamako courtyard, I heard a half-whispered song on a broken guitar which entranced me“, Justin Adams recounts. It led me, Philippe Brix and a few others to the Sahara desert to find where this music came from. Tuareg guitar – a looping groove, melancholy tune, a simplicity and a profundity – that called to mind the masters of the Delta, the spirit and defiance of the early Wailers, with a desert flavour between Gnawa trance and Ali Farka’s serpentine swing. Tinariwen was a loose collective of originators, among them Diara (and a young Sanou), the master of the Saharan rhythm guitar. Together with Sanou, an archetypal Saharan cowboy, with Wah Wah Watson sideboards and full Rock and Roll attitude, they became Terakaft, guardians of the original Tuareg guitar.“ (Justin Adams / spring 2015)
