Tunng and Tinariwen Collaboration

For those of you who didn’t manage to catch it or hear about it in the first place, BBC Radio Three this evening recorded an amazing collaboration between the British experimental folk group Tunng and Tinariwen the Algerian African Blues band.


Recorded in the legendary Maida Vale studios last year for the world music ‘Late Junction’ programme, both bands managed to fuse together two entirely different cultures, backgrounds and styles of music to form a sound so smooth that it sounded like they’d been together years.

This show can be listened to (and I highly recommend it) via the BBC Radio Three Iplayer or, if you’d like something a little more personal the two bands have announced that they will be forming an exciting tour together next month.

The announced dates of this tour are:

March
18 Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
19 Leicester De Montford Hall
20 Manchester Academy 3
21 Edinburgh Picturehouse
22 Liverpool Philharmonic
23 Leeds Irish Centre
25 Bath Komedia
26 London Koko
27 Reading Town Hall
28 Birmingham The Rainbow Warehouse