Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper adroit wordplay

adroit wordplay

especially on the driving title track

gender-fluid vocals and searing poetry to take centre stage

like a harpsichord on ‘Micro Cuts’ and Abbey Road recorded strings on ‘Citizen Erased’

“I don’t really care for songs that flow just right or have a perfect cadence—I’d rather there be some sort of unnerving element to them

Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper adroit wordplayA revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the bands already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call and response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard