I absolutely love Tinariwen. My love for Tinariwen originated a couple years back when I stumbled across their excellent LP, Aman Iman - Water Is Life (check it out if you haven't heard it), leaving me completely hooked. Here's a new video for their track "Iswegh Attay", a song from their most recent album Tassili. "Iswegh Attay" is one of their more downtempo tracks, but their upbeat stuff is where the real magic happens, possessing you with uncontrollable foot tapping.
Check the video out below - if you love tea as much as I do, you will love this video (and hopefully the song too).
Check out the Desert sessions documentary below, it's a really interesting watch. Keep an eye out for guy with pedo glasses, he has an EPIC hair-beard combo.
With The Stone Rose's fans chomping at the bit to buy tickets for their three Manchester shows they announced last autumn, the band clearly still hold a great presence with today’s gig goers. With that in mind, who better than contemporary director of gritty, northern, social-realist film This Is England and the resulting sequels TIE 86, and 88, Nottingham bred, Shane Meadows, to make the reunion documentary for the band?
This is England is already a cult classic and the most recent installation gave the best viewing of the season this Christmas on Channel 4. Meadows’ films are beautifully shot and importantly he has used an array of great music in his films. His use of music is one of his main techniques for locating a film within a historical, social context. Working mostly with a catalogue of 1980s releases he has used various artists from The Smiths and The Specials to Toots and The Maytals. Notably, he even included The Stone Roses ‘Going Down’ in the 1999 film ‘A Room for Romeo Brass’.
Meadows will make this documentary with Warp Films, a multi BAFTA award winning, independent UK production company aptly based in Sheffield (and London). Warp Films has been responsible for greats such as Ayoade’s Submarine and Morris’ Four Lions, as well as Meadows’ TIE and Dead Man’s Shoes.
Meadows’ cites The Stone Roses as his favourite band and is probably looking forward to their reunion gigs as much as any fan willing to pay the £55 a ticket to the sold out shows cost.
It is yet to be discovered when the documentary will be released, but check back here for more on this story.
For now, here’s the opening of This Is England, showing an example of his use of news footage, historical events and pop-culture set alongside Toots and The Maytals, 54-56 Was My Number to locate the viewer in the film’s 1980 setting.
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