Label Wedge | Release date 10 February 2014 | |
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Released 10 February 2014 (2014-02-10) Recorded April/May 2013, United States Length 48:59 (61:50 with bonus tracks) Genres World music, African blues Similar Tinariwen albums, World music albums | ||
Tinariwen toumast tincha
Emmaar is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014. Emmaar is a Tuareg word meaning "the heat on the breeze". It is their first full album not to be recorded in northern Africa.
Contents
After Tinariwen's previous album Tassili won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of northern Mali, with Islamist militants abducting guitarist Abdallah Ag Lamida. Other members of the band fled to the southwestern United States, writing and recording Emmaar in and around Joshua Tree National Park, which features a desert environment similar to their homeland. The album's lyrics deal primarily with the band's exile and the political strife in their home country, and it includes guest contributions from Josh Klinghoffer, Fats Kaplin, Matt Sweeney, and Saul Williams.
Track listing
Note: Tracks 11-14 are bonus tracks in some editions of the album.
Songs
1Toumast Tincha4:22
2Chaghaybou4:56
3Arhegh Danagh4:09