TINARIWEN
The Radio Tisdas Sessions/Amassakoul (reissues, 2001, 2004)
WEDGE
7/10, 8/10
THE first ever review of Tinariwen in the UK media came 21 years ago in the March 2001 issue of Uncut, when this intrepid critic travelled to see them play at “the world’s remotest music festival” in the southern Sahara in Mali. It was not a journey for the fainthearted, involving a six-hour flight from Paris to Gao on the River Niger, followed by a long day’s 4x4 drive across the
