The Sons (And Daughters) Of The Desert: A Tuareg & Gnawa Music Thread

I went through a phase where I was completely obsessed with this album, which was the first gnawa I heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Qve2jxqNk

This was pre-streaming and pre-everything-is-available-all-the-time, so I wound up searching largely in vain for similar music, since a lot of other "gnawa" records were more in the world music vain and I was being a purist about it. Still think it's an incredible album. I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it. The marketing schtick used for it in the US is a bit annoying too, but w/e, you can't market a foreign artist in the US without some kind of hook.

I have a harder time getting into Touareg guitar music - it seems like something that would be right in my zone and yet I just don't get excited by it.

I've never been as huge a Tinariwen fan as lots of other people; I prefer female vocalists to male, in that style, so Mariem Hassan and Tartit and now Les Filles de Illighadad are my favorites.

Do/should we think of this as a single record?

https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-1-family-pr-001-pr-002

new mdou moctar is just holy shit astonishing

like what??!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67lqykI4nc

i was away last time they toured but psyched to have tickets for the upcoming tour. this is such a great record.

Oh okay, this stuff is sick. Picked up mdou moctar's blue stage sessions and lord almighty can the man shred. I don't even particularly care for shredding; and yet!