Songoftheday
|November 30, 2011 | Found Sounds, Songoftheday
During a discussion the other night about the electric guitar, powerful music that’s not rock n’ roll, and the influence of American culture in the most remote parts of the world, I put on Group Inerane’s Guitars From Agadez album for a friend of mine, who referred to it as ” mind-blowing “. This was, in fact, the second time I’ve played this record for someone who said that exact thing about it. These are field recordings of Taureg tribesmen, playing cheap guitars through battery-powered amps in the Sahara desert, and I think there’s something that all that sand and sun does to people, because the vibe here doesn’t seem to me all that dissimilar to that of Kyuss’ generator-powered California desert trance-jams.
Group Inerane : Kuni Majagani
