Before you start clambouring around, saying ‘we knew them when…’, let us remind you that Plymouth Herald Battle of the Bands finalists The Quails first came to our attention last summer.
And if you gossip hungry fiends out there want the latest gen, this Teignmouth crew (The Quails, duh) are ‘in negotiations’ with Sarah Woodward’s new record label, which is coming out of the Music Mill studio, Newton Abbot (home to the Melting Pot Studio Sessions).
So, good luck to the groovers, who played a great acoustic set at the AEON Sunday Chill last week.
Posted by Cptn
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March 24th, 2007
Tinariwen played Dartington Hall on March 22 and it’s their history that really makes people take notice of their music.
The band was originally part of the Tourag tribe of Mali, in the Sahara. Swapping their guns for guitars, the band has played countless sell out shows all over the globe, and finally ended up in Dartington.
Their sound is so simple, but echoes of their past with a passionate honesty.
Everything about their show is entrancing - their robes, the hypnotic rhythms and foreign chants - all capable of locking the crowd’s attention, pulling them into the sound of the desert.
There was no need for crowd banter, they were in a blissful intoxication of the steady beats, fronted by very minimal guitar work. The way Tinariwen play, even after their current successes, has hardly changed over time.
Being the first band to use an electric guitar in Mali, their relic amplifiers indicate that they intend to keep the formula the same, but its this detachment from modernity and commercialisation that keeps this sound so iconic.
Their current album ‘AMAN IMAN: Water Is Life’ is running up the world music charts, catch them live while they’re still hot!
Posted by Tom Weymouth
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March 24th, 2007
