Tinariwen’s breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track, exclusive photos and brand-new liner notes. ‘Amassakoul’ features songs from Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, Touhami Ag Alhassane. Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries – Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. This drawing of borders has turned the Tuareg into ishumar, a displaced people in search of a homeland lost to them. Tinariwen’s music – a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – speaks directly to this feeling of longing: a sound that critics have called ‘desert blues’.

Disc 1
1. Amassakoul’n’tnr – Tinariwen
2. Oualahila Ar Tesninam – Tinariwen
3. Chatma – Tinariwen
4. Arawan – Tinariwen
5. Chet Boghassa – Tinariwen
6. Amidinin – Tinariwen
7. Tnr Dafo Nikchan – Tinariwen
8. Aldhechen Manin – Tinariwen
9. Alkhar Dessouf – Tinariwen
10. Eh Massina Sintadoben – Tinariwen
11. Assoul – Tinariwen
12. Taskiwt Tadjat (Bonus Track) – Tinariwen