If everything you owned had to fit on the back of a camel, what would you keep? What instrument would a musician treasure enough to justify taking up precious space? The members of Tartit play the instruments of their Tuaregor Kel Tamashek, as they prefer to be calledheritage. The tinde, played exclusively by women, is made from a small wooden mortar that the women use to grind grains, and which is covered with a goatskin. Only women of the noble or the vassal tribes were once permitted to play the imzad,   [ read more ]

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Nothing is more evocative of the fascinating expanses of the Sahara desert than the music of Tartit, a Tuareg band consisting of five women and four men residing in the Timbuktu region. Tartit play hypnotic, trance-inducing music: the women sit down, sing, and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums, while the men sing and play string instruments, acoustic and electric. The men are veiled, the women aren't. Tuareg society is one of the few throughout Africa in which women are allowed to choose (and divorce   [ read more ]

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