Tinariwen announce a new unreleased & rarities album Idrache (Traces Of The Past).
02.10.2024Tinariwen announce a new unreleased & rarities album Idrache (Traces Of The Past), out November 15th via Wedge.
Today they share the lead single ‘Amoss Idjraw’, written by the band’s founding member Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, and originally recorded in Kidal, Mali in January 2006.
The album follows an extensive 2024 world tour, which featured sold out shows headlining venues and festivals such as Newport Folk Festival, BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall), Sydney Opera House, Elbphilarminie in Hamburg, Dubai Opera House, and more, in support of their last studio album Amatssou.
Idrache (Traces Of The Past) features a dozen hidden gems from the Sahara. Rough hewn, but intimate and beautiful recordings by Tinariwen, the world’s most famous Tuareg band. Some are demos that were later released in more produced versions on subsequent albums and four of them have never been released before.
This is music to transport you, music that makes you feel you are in the Sahara with these extraordinary musicians for whom it is their home and their inspiration. These are raw desert treasures, recorded live with no overdubs, that are only emerging into the sunlight with this album of rarities, Idrache, Traces of the Past..