Touareg desert rockers TINARIWEN are set to consolidate their position as the UK’s favourite African band with the release of their first Live DVD on 1st September 2008. The video for Cler Achel is taken from the DVD, which will also include interviews, documentarys, live footage from their sold out shephards bush gig and much more...

Touareg desert rockers TINARIWEN are set to consolidate their position as the UK’s favourite African band with the release of their first Live DVD on 1st September 2008. The video for Assawt N'chet Tamashek is taken from the DVD, which will also include interviews, documentarys, live footage from their sold out shephards bush gig and much more...

Tinariwen - clip from the documentary.. www.tinariwen.com www.myspace.com/tinariwen Legendary poet guitarists and soul rebels from the southern Sahara desert, this documentary extract features performances of '63' under a tree in the desert 'Matadjem Yinmixan' in a tent in Tessalit, as well as a short interview with founder Ibrahim. In 1963, shortly after independence, the Touaregs of Mali rise up against their new masters. This revolt is brutally suppressed. It is followed by terrible droughts which force thousands of refugees from Mali, Niger and Libya out on the road. It's in the pain of exile that the Teshoumara is born. This movement proclaims the existence but also the necessary evolution of the Touareg people. This is when the guitars of the group Tinariwen first began to be heard. Album Aman Iman : Water Is Life available on iTunes here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ... id=212053410&s=143444 (less)