Tinariwen - Amatssou - White Vinyl LP

Amatssou sees North African group Tinariwen further enhance their snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings that fans have come to know and love. Full of poetic allegory, the lyrics call for unity and freedom. There are songs of struggle and resistance with oblique references to the recent desperate political upheavals in Mali and the increasing power of the Salafists.

The timeless horizon of the endless Sahara and the wild frontier of the Old West - several thousand miles of ocean may divide the desert blues of Tinariwen and the authentic country music of rural America but the links are as palpable as they are romantic.