Tinariwen
Tinariwen connect electric-guitar music with a wider Tuareg musical world. Their own history traces a collective shaped by displacement, cassette circulation and several generations of performers; a single national label cannot describe those connections.
Amassakoul is one place to begin. Then compare modern guitar recordings with the vocal and instrumental traditions documented by Smithsonian Folkways: repetition is a connection to explore, while the older recordings should be heard as music in their own right.
A recording to start with
Amassakoul
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