Tuareg greats Imarhan released their new album Aboogi today via City Slang. The album features a number of notable guests, including Tinariwen’s Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, and Super Furry Animals’ Gruff ...

Algerian Tuareg band Imarhan have been described as Tinariwen‘s proteges, and their frontman Sadam has toured as a member of Tinariwen. They were supposed to play Austin’s Levitation fest this past ...

"Adar Newlan" is the third track to be lifted from Imarhan's Aboogi album, following last year's "Tamiditin" and "Achinkad" singles, and sees them collaborate with Gruff Rhys, after meeting him at an ...

An isolated, notoriously dangerous desert is preferable to amenity rife Western locales. At least that’s the case for Imarhan while working on an album. That’s because the rising Tuareg Saharan ...

Imarhan emerged from southern Algeria’s close-knit Tuareg community in 2006. Fans of Tuareg rock greats Tinariwen will already be familiar with the quintet; Imarhan front man Iyad Moussa Ben ...

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Imarhan have shared "Imarhan", the first track from their upcoming, eponymous debut record. The six-piece outfit hail from Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria, and merge assouf and Tuareg traditional music.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the time of their previous album, 2018’s Temet, Imarhan were leading a more nomadic life than usual, split ...

The desert blues revolution initiated by Tinariwen continues with this young band from southern Algeria. The groups share a similar sound – and Imarhan’s leader, Sadam, has a cousin in the elder band ...

"Imarhan’s music is based on the assouf and Tuareg traditional music – that is the most important, it is the real base," says frontman Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam, on the sound of the ...

The electricity around Saturday’s pairing of Saharan desert blues band Imarhan and the spirited musical collective known as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros still has us buzzing. If you missed the ...

Imarhan is a crew of young musicians from Tamanrasset in southern Algeria. The band has a direct family relationship with Tuareg rock trailblazers Tinariwen: Not only is one of Tinariwen's members, ...