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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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’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 Sahara is in a mess. It’s not just the terrorism, kidnapping, drug trafficking and other headline-hogging afflictions (the ones that tend to obsess western governments and analysts), it’s the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Touareg guitar music started out in the 1980s as an amalgam of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and Dire Straits, filtered through rebel fighters in exile from Mali and sheltered by Colonel Gaddafi in the ...

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 ...

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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.