Tartit
Mali
“Splendid!”, remarked Robert Plant, upon seeing Tartit at the Festival in the Desert, Mali. Nothing is more evocative of the fascinating expanses of the Sahara desert than the music of Tartit, a Touareg band consisting of five women and four men residing in the Timbuktu region (Mali). Unlike that other renowned Touareg band, Tinariwen, Tartit play quiet, hypnotic, trance-inducing music: the women sit down, sing, and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums, while the men accompany them on string instruments, acoustic and electric.
Discography:
- Amazagh (1997)
- Ichcichila (2000)
- Abacabok (2006)
